they did not spare zipper interactive and bigbig studios

When zipper was closed down, wasn't it said that the employees were sent to other parts of SCEA?

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"The closure is a result of a normal cycle of resource re-alignment within SCE WWS"

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/03/30/sony-closes-zipper-interactive.aspx

Trimming fat that should have been rid of years ago.

Well really has any First party studios costed Sony money? They all go on to sell well or at least have one game that's really profitable...there probably getting pretty pissed off with Team ICO though, whats it been 7 years now o_o.

Zipper and the guys who made Little Deviants were closed down though, guess there wont be anymore.

Hopefully this also means Sony isnt gonna buy anybody else for the forseable future, they have enough devs as it is lol

Should be renamed "Duke Guardian Forever."

So not really a lay-off then, at least in zipper's case..

Sony has an amazing track record when it comes to their devs and stuff.

The games business already was hit so any additional cuts would really be bad.

EMI my friend, EMI! 

EMI, Universal, Sony Music and Warner Music have been the big four music publishers for almost 15 years now, with Universal being the biggest single group with market share hovering in the mid to high 20% range, Sony's in the low 20s and EMI's in the low teens.

Now with Sony buying most of EMI's back catalogue they have just edged out Universal with about 30% global market share. Kind of crazy to think that almost 1 in 3 of the songs you listen to will be published under Sony.