that 8 percent are being laid off. their employees. This means that approximately 900 people from all over the world will leave their jobs. Game studios will also feel the loss.
Sony lays off 900 employees
We already know that Sony will close its London studio that developed games for PlayStation VR – we read in “The Verge”. Another British VR studio – Firesprite – will also suffer.
Sony also announced that the layoffs will also affect more recognizable game creators whom the Japanese have taken under their wing. The layoffs are to take place at the American Insomniac Games (“Ratchet and Clank” and “Marvel’s Spider-Man” series) and at Naughty Dod (“Uncharted” and “The Last of Us” series). The layoffs will also cover the Dutch studio Guerilla (the “Killzone” and “Horizon” series).
The gaming industry is in crisis, everyone is cutting jobs
Information about the layoffs appeared moments after it turned out that Sony recorded a loss of USD 10 billion on the stock exchange. This is the result of the announcement of lower PlayStation 5 sales forecasts in 2024. However, it is difficult to attribute this to layoffs, which should rather be linked to the general IT crisis, which was also followed by a crisis in the gaming industry.
The firing was also carried out by Sony’s biggest rival. from Activison Blizzard and Xbox, which is 8%. employed in the company’s games department. Discord reduced jobs by 17 percent, Unity dismissed every fourth employee. And all this only in 2024. In August 2023, Epic Games laid off 830 people and EA laid off approximately 780 people. To a greater or lesser extent, it also fired BioWare, Ubisoft, Amazon, CD Projekt Red and Sega.
Source: Gazeta
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