Cutting Staff at a first party studio???

[theprof00]

JayWood2010 said:

theprof00 said:

http://www.giantbomb.com/viva-pinata-trouble-in-paradise/3030-20682/credits/

http://www.mobygames.com/game/xbox360/kinect-sports/credits

less than a dozen people on viva were on sports.

And two of them were just laid off.

If im looking at things correctly there iwas only 37 people working on Viva Pinata: TiP?  Again, 130+ at Rare + freelancers thatr they hire for pretty much every game. 

Obviously there is an addition of new employees at rare and employees that has been there for years.  That goes for any studio.  New people get hired and some people retire.  Some leaves, some comes.

Just wanted to revisit this because I never got a chance to reply.

Yes, people get fired and retire and whatever but the point I was making was that there are hardly any devs left from when they made their trad-core franchises, and two in the OP are bigshots from their past, so my conclusion is that it's unlikely that Rare is refocusing on the core. Rather, this news, coupled with the other interview about some kind of nokia platform really make me think they will focus on mobile.