Microsoft opens new studio in Santa Monica

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:

CGI-Quality said:

Yes, but many of them would hardly be the people making the biggest impact on production. Someone of that type would make big news. Ultimately, this has far less to do with people leaving. They are just doing what they have been - restructuring teams and moving people around. Many game developers are in Santa Monica (I was planning to move there before settling in North Carolina for Game Design), so this is just a logical step for them.

I'm just trying to grasp what he's getting at, too. 

It could well feedback into what was mentioned in the job listing about having the ability to utilise the local talent base for contract work as development scales up , this is no surprise in the age of contracts and subcontracting and some of those people coming out of contract will come from Sony but that was always the case and as I'm sure insiders like CGI know more about these things  than us laymen, such as there are many employees who would have worked on games without ever being anywhere near the studio and people finish up when whatever they where contracted for is fulfilled,be it before completion or on completion, the notion of people getting sacked wholesale  at games end is one built on the days where companies doing that where still  in the middle of transitioning from people working full time as employees of a company year after year regardless of product cycles toward today's more flexible workforce  that is more inline with movie production.