Sony Interactive Entertainment to layoff 8% of their workforce, close Sony London Studio

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BraLoD said:

Qwark said:

Playstation is basically one or two fuck-ups away from going in the red. A lot of their studios have been working on a new game for over three or four years and aren't even ready to be announced yet. Mind you this is making a loss even with 45 million PS+ subscribers and collecting a lot of royalties.

Playstation is actually doing very, very well.

The problem here is a global trend of corporate greed, no matter the human cost.

First it was massive work crunch, now it is massive lay offs, and everyone is doing the exact same everywhere.

The only step Sony still didn't take was throwing the quality of the games down the bucket to reach impossible goals, which most of the other ones are happily doing for years now.

Last week for the first time since it started in 1995 Magic the Gathering will stop being printed in Brazilian Portuguese, with the excuse that the costs are too high, even as Wizards of the Coast are having record breaking profit.

There is nothing to do with doing bad or being close to get in the red, it's simply corporate greed, something very familiar to us here in Brazil since ever.

You are not wrong.  I've worked for a few billion dollar annual profit companies....  every year is "how do we make more."