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We're ready to shoot the next round of Pachter Factor and we need your questions! Folks, we've really been struggling to get questions from here on our Patreon for the last few rounds. It would really be awesome if you could take a minute or two and ask something of the Pach Man!

Xbox just closed down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks while planning more cuts to focus on "hits," the Fallout TV show has been a smashing (and surprising) success that Bethesda has struggled to capitalize on, Grand Theft Auto VI was just delayed to fall 2025, Helldivers 2 has become the fastest-selling Sony-published game ever, it was just confirmed that Call of Duty will launch day-and-date on Game Pass, Square Enix is bailing on console exclusives going forward after losing hundreds of millions on recent Final Fantasy games, the specs for Switch 2 have leaked, Assassin's Creed Shadows was just announced, PlayStation just announced new dual-CEOs, basically all PlayStation 5 exclusives are now coming to PC, PlayStation 5 sales are falling short of PS4, EA is considering in-game ads again, and so much more!     

As usual, try to ask some questions that will be interesting both now and a few weeks from now. If you want a more thorough refresher of all the big stories from the last month use this link:

https://siftd.net/sift/?o=popular&p=30

Thanks as always to everyone who asks questions! The show is only as good as your questions and we appreciate your help so much!

Shane

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Gregor Gullwi

Hi Pachter! How come the stock market generally react so positively to layoffs? Aren’t layoffs basically saying that the next game will be either smaller in scope or take longer time to develop? Or is it just layoffs close to release that is seen as something positive? What are your thoughts?

Gregor Gullwi

Hi Pachter! What are your thoughts around the Microsoft studio layoffs? The studios didn’t seem to have gotten time to prove themselves yet. Was it part of a larger cost cutting budget directive from the CEO or CFO or was it something that the Xbox division decided internally?

Darthirv

Hey Pach! I'm seeing a lot of doom and gloom on the video game console market. Do you think this could be a repeat of the negative console outlook before the PS4/Xbox One generation-- that ended up not happening?

The Diddler

Assassin’s Creed has been getting a lot of attention recently. (People are really showing their racism). How do you think companies like Ubisoft feel about all this controversy/ free marketing? Seems like when Twitter is angry at a game decision, sales skyrocket.

Mr Wolf 15G

Hi Pach. What happens to game libraries if Microsoft stopped Xbox consoles? Just port entitlement to PC? Could Microsoft get Gamepass onto PlayStation?