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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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[–] 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.