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Sony laying off 900 PlayStation employees, London Studio to close in its entirety (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 8 months ago by thudge_mcgerk@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Sony is to lay off 900 people, equating to eight percent of its workforce.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they should stop budgeting so much for video games. Nobody is forcing them to make everything 4k graphic open world games where you can do anything you want.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the new management at Sony agrees, but what that means is that people get laid off.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As if this existing studio has been corrupted by Sony's big budgets, and putting together a whole new studio will cost less than telling one group to figure out how to make two games.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If only costs, personnel, and risk could be divided that easily.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right, because tanking a working company with nine hundred people is cheap and simple.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

Long-term, it is in fact cheaper to not pay 900 people than it is to pay them.