Destiny 2 developer Bungie is the latest PlayStation studio to have layoffs. Full scope isn't clear yet, but CEO Pete Parsons emailed the company.
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Yes, they had a lot of money set aside for retention....
They are still hiring, I believe.
We have to see how things look overall... DMG said that this was a result of managerial incompetence and it echoes of past things he saw at Bungie.
There were over 1000 people at Bungie, so it's hard to know what exactly is going on.
4 month delay for The Final Shape (Destiny expansion) and Marathon to 2025....
Paul Tassi said it's more on the publisher side that cutbacks are but he didn't say that is definitive.
Biggest issue so far. ND especially. How can one of their best companies not have anything to show for 3 years?
I think I'm gonna go Nintendo next gen
Cuz sony are in the verge of bankruptcy imo
Cuz sony are in the verge of bankruptcy imo
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Bungie Hit By Layoffs - Insider Gaming
Another round of layoffs is hitting the gaming industry as Bungie is the next studio to begin letting employees go.
insider-gaming.com
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Yeah bankruptcy with record revenue and profits. Do you guys really read what you type?
Sony have more cash on hand than Nintendo and Sony makes over twice what Nintendo make in profits annually.
There is no panic.... they are overly investor focused right now, PlayStation used to lose billions during the PS3 era and Sony was really broke then.
This is nothing but greed being put above delivering the best they can for customers.
He is just trolling. Eitherway, something is wrong at Playstation and the recent events are related to Jim leaving.
This thread does a good job of showing why a "disagree" rating that isn't haha needs to exist. How many "layoff" news stories this year have we seen that ended up being fewer than ten people or just regular post-launch trimming? People in this thread have said that Destiny 2 is dead, that the GaaS push is dead, that this is Sony reversing course on this or that. Its equally likely that none of that is true and definitely likely that most of it is not true.
Someone said Jim was not a good leader a long time ago... on a place called GeoNaf or something like that.... he might have been right.
Lol I said it with you right there before we left that green dirt place
AI generated destiny
lol. Who knows?Yeah I remember that guy...
jesus and his followers, right?
Delay worked in Witch Queen’s favor but it also shifts their content roll out 4 months. Marathon probably feb 25 earliest then .
Also while witch Queen’s delay was quality control related Final Shape’s seems workforce related due to cuts.
Also while witch Queen’s delay was quality control related Final Shape’s seems workforce related due to cuts.
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I think their GaaS is not going well.
Deviation project struggling
Factions 2 struggling
One of Bungie's projects likely failing
A specific team at Visual Arts was likely supporting one of these 3 failures.
I like the idea, if the outside company being bought fits with the company buying them, and/or they can produce better games by coding to the metal/being exclusive (be refined instead of compensating for multiplatform sky's with their parities and drawbacks). But I don't think my use-scenario here is typical of "consolidation" itself, I think I moreso like "synergistic exclusivity". Don't mind me, I'm stoned lol.