makingmusic476 said:
SCEA should be safe. Their developers in general produce more big hitting franchises than SCEE (God of War, Uncharted, Jak & Daxter - though Killzone 2 may swing the tide in SCEE's favor). I could see SCEI being affected in some ways. Lowering R&D on future consoles/handhelds, axing some of those 2nd party contracts with oddball developers for extremely niche titles that'll never leave Japan (that horse sim, among others). |
You make some good points but bear this in mind: that's not how corproate politics work and doubly-so in a very Japanese corporation with a Westerner at its head--the Japanese managers are going to demand that some blood be spilt from the foreign divisions, even if it's counter-productive (and they'll get it, too).
Also note: I am not saying entire divisions will be cut from SCEA et al, but there will be lay-offs, have no doubts about that--Sony has way, way too much fat to trim to spare them completely.
