Microsoft to Close Xbox Entertainment Studios

Xbox Entertainment Studios in Santa Monica is to close as part of the restructuring announced by Satya Nadella in a lengthy memo to Microsoft staff that expressed support for the Xbox and its importance to the company.

Sources contacted by re/code paint a picture of a disorganized studio that couldn't close deals and lacked a viable business model. This inability to execute has turned off potential studio partners, complicating the process of securing premium content.

Phil Spencer, the head of the Xbox division has stated that executives Nancy Tellem, Jordan Levin and other members of the team will remain to work on original programs that are already in production, the upcoming documentary series “Signal to Noise” whose first instalment takes on the rise and fall of gaming icon Atari, and “Halo: Nightfall.” The “Halo” television series will continue as planned.

Hopefully these will be more successful than the football-themed reality show “Every Street United,” which had its début on the 15th of  June and was thoroughly ignore by everyone.