It was only just revealed that Amazon Games appears to be slowly sunsetting New World: Aeternum , with the most recent content update officially revealed as the last in the game's four-year post-launch development cycle, and the servers for the MMO only guaranteed to be maintained and online "through 2026." However, the latest wave of layoffs at Amazon, which are slated to affect at least 14,000 workers, seemingly mean that New World won't be the only premium Amazon Games experience to get the cut. Amazon's VP of games, Steve Boom explains that Amazon has "made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work - specifically around MMOs - within Amazon Game Studios."

Reporting on the layoffs, Variety managed to get hold of an internal memo that details a marked shift in Amazon Games's approach. Most notably, the internal memo confirms that Amazon will be diverting development resources away from AAA games, instead focusing on the Amazon Luna cloud gaming subscription service included with Amazon Prime, and its casual party and AI-powered games, like the somewhat peculiar Courtroom Chaos - Starring Snoop Dogg. Amazon will supposedly continue to work on existing AAA projects with external studios, but that is likely only to fulfill contractual obligations to do so and not because Amazon is invested in making AAA games.