EA: Massive Layoffs on Tiburon, Black Box, Redwood Shores and Mythic

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non-gravity said:

-Mythic studios is sorta merged into Bioware
-Criterion will be making a Need for Speed game so Black Box studios will have to make one less NFS game
-EA Tiburon has lost the NASCAR license, they are however making an MMA game.
-Visceral Games likely won't be making another Godfather game or a Dead Space Wii game, but are still making Dante's Inferno and Dead Space 2 (likely)
-The Sims team probably won't have to worry about a Sims 4 anytime soon

Well clean up the labour force. Make some room now to maybe attract some new talent later.

 

Also Pandemic Studios have so far made LOTR Conquest and Mercenaries 2 and upcoming in December is Saboteur. I'm not sure this studio is performing well according to EA. It was bought in 2008 together with Bioware. 

Conquest didn't sell well at all, but Mercs 2 actually sold well which I'm betting was due to good marketing.  So 1 out of 2 games so far, things may hinge on the third.

Pandemic wasn't an amazing developer to begin with, I mean I LOVE Battlefront but I know how unbalanced it was as well, which a lesser known and typically seen less talented developer, Rebellion, made a much more balanced Battlefront with Renegade Squadron.  So yeah their biggest game was outdone by a smaller developer (from an actual competitive game standpoint)

I'd say if Pandemic gets some fat cut out, it might be for the best anyway.