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think-man on 25 February 2014

I hope that project they cancelled wasn't PS ALL STARS 2!



 

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poklane on 25 February 2014

I wonder how many people lost their jobs. 10, 30, 50, 100? It's also rumored that one of their projects is canceled (OP), I wonder what project.



outlawauron on 25 February 2014
Fusioncode said:
Zappykins said:

Not according to VGC! IT's listed as only selling 1.74 million Worldwide.  And it barely beat Gears of War: Judgement - in Japan.  The Xbox 360 isn't Japan's biggest seller.

Anyone know the latest on movie the studio?

God of War has never been popular in Japan, and how exactly is that relevant anyways? 

The comparison is irrelevant, but Ascension still didn't sell very welll regardless.



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kupomogli on 25 February 2014

Worst company in America!



bananaking21 on 25 February 2014

i really really really hope its not barlogs game that got canceled.



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vivster on 25 February 2014
the-pi-guy said:
osed125 said:
vivster said:
And people jumping to conclusions again. We don't even know how many or what kind of people got fired.
For all we know it could be that SSM decided they only need 2 coffee delivery guys instead of 10 because they streamlined the coffee delivering process.

Highly doubt Sony would make an official statement if they only fired the coffee guys..

SCEA can confirm that we have completed a reduction in workforce at Santa Monica Studio. This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS. We do not take these decisions lightly. However, sometimes it is necessary to make changes to better serve the future projects of the studio. We have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease transition for those impacted.

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It's totally coffee guys.  

The original source though, wasn't Sony, Sony didn't make an official statement until after there was basically a "rumor" going around that there were layoffs.

You beat me to it.



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TheLegendaryWolf on 25 February 2014

I knew the PS4 wasn't enough to cover the losses of everything else in the company, but I didn't expect layoffs from them.



Zappykins on 25 February 2014
Fusioncode said:
Zappykins said:
JustThatGamer said:

I read somewhere that it's sold close to 3 million already, so that's not it.

They've been on a hiring spree for ages, maybe they're just laying off the lesser devs to hire new talent from Irrational Games or something?

Not according to VGC! IT's listed as only selling 1.74 million Worldwide.  And it barely beat Gears of War: Judgement - in Japan.  The Xbox 360 isn't Japan's biggest seller.

Anyone know the latest on movie the studio?

God of War has never been popular in Japan, and how exactly is that relevant anyways? 

I was just completely shocked how poorly it sold. The question is why are they laying people off.  Not selling up to expectations is a big deal.  Getting nearly beaten by a poor selling 360 exclusive in Japan is noteworthy.

 For example God of War III sold three times as many units in Japan.  We know they just canceled a game, and are moving the studio out of Santa Monica.  They were supposed to be expanding, but seems they are merging more operations with Naughty Dog at the new place.



 

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osed125 on 25 February 2014
the-pi-guy said:
osed125 said:

Highly doubt Sony would make an official statement if they only fired the coffee guys..

SCEA can confirm that we have completed a reduction in workforce at Santa Monica Studio. This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS. We do not take these decisions lightly. However, sometimes it is necessary to make changes to better serve the future projects of the studio. We have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease transition for those impacted.

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It's totally coffee guys.  

The original source though, wasn't Sony, Sony didn't make an official statement until after there was basically a "rumor" going around that there were layoffs.

Lol.

Doesn't changed the fact that Sony made a statement, in most cases companies just say "no comment" or deny the rumors. 



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DakonBlackblade on 25 February 2014
MB1025 said:
JustThatGamer said:
Why would they move to a new, much bigger, studio if they're laying people off?


Because things change.


But they changed pretty quickly if thats the case cause they moved like 2 months ago. Im guessing the move wasnt to expand to beging with and the lay offs were planned already cause otherwise this doesnt make sense at all. Also how many games do they have in development at once ? This is kind of an important information cause otherwise "they canceled a game" can simply mean they scrapped a very minor project they had there them layed-off the team working on it wich was probably very small, if its only 2 or something like that tham its very hughe and they probably layed-off throngs of ppl.