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

[Qwark]

G2ThaUNiT said:

kazuyamishima said:

Budgets for PS Games have been increasing a lot, especially the licensing ones. But the Insomniac leak gave us a lot of info, it seems that PS first party games make profit and some more.

But 8% of their workforce is something significant tho. 

It honestly makes the situation all the more confusing. Especially with major studios like Insomniac and Guerrilla being hit. I think Guerrilla was confirmed to have lost 10% of their workforce. 

Insomniac having the studios biggest launch in their history. 

We don't know on what type of games they where working on perhaps these people where working on projects Sony thinks are not being able to generate big numbers. But I agree it's odd, I can get behind Naughty Dog, due to wasting time and money on Factions, but especially Insomniac made Sony a lot of money this gen. Luckily Santa Monica isn't downsized even though they basically became twice as big these last few years. Studios like Bluepoint, Suckerpunch, Bend and Housemarque also seemed to be spared for now, though with a new CEO taking over we can't be sure these are the final cuts.

Last edited by Qwark - on 28 February 2024