Microsoft recently made major layoffs and canceled several masterpieces at the same time.Today, it was revealed that the exclusive game "Contraband" created by the developer of "Self-Defense" was also cancelled. In fact, there have been signs of cancellation of this game. At the beginning of last month, sharp-eyed players discovered that Xbox had deleted the trailer for "Contraband" from the official YouTube channel for no reason.

Interestingly, three of the five first-party games announced at the 2020 Xbox June launch have been cancelled:

"Fables of Gods: Restart Edition"

"Roar Country 3"

"Embeddition" (cancelled)

"Everwild" (Cancelled)

"Perfect Dark: Reboot" (Cancelled)

Although the four games "Haven: Infinity", "Forza Motorsport", "Swear" and "Hell Blade 2" displayed at the press conference that year have been released, none of them have caused too much splash.In fact, these four games performed very poorly.After the release of Forza Motorsport, developer Turn 10 was also affected by this year's major layoffs, basically becoming an auxiliary studio, while 343 and Halo have recently undergone a thorough brand rebrand, and the statistics of Hellblade 2 on platforms such as Steam are also worrying.All in all, Microsoft's explosive display in 2020 doesn't seem to achieve the expected results.

The cancellation of three important games, along with four disappointing releases, is likely to mean that Microsoft leadership is no longer confident in its future exclusive games.Game Pass has stagnated growth in the past few years, which is likely to have also contributed to the fuel.