PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world [Discussion]
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The legacy of Jim Ryan is the gift that keeps on giving:
His legacy will be felt for years, he completely fucked playstation.
- The Last of Us Online cancelled and people laid-off at Naughty Dog (1st GaaS project gone)
- Closing of London Studio, with dozens losing their job (2nd GaaS project gone)
- Cancellation of Spider-Man multiplayer projects and now layoffs(occurred at some point in the last year, 3rd GaaS project gone)
- Guerrilla hit with layoffs, another studio that had been working on GaaS (probably 4th project gone)
His legacy will be felt for years, he completely fucked playstation.
Hilarious coincidence this happens with a "Sony should acquire so and so" thread right below this one.
How about no one acquire anyone else until these big corporations can sort their fucking shit out and no one has to work for them constantly looking down the barrel of an inevitable mass layoff?
How about no one acquire anyone else until these big corporations can sort their fucking shit out and no one has to work for them constantly looking down the barrel of an inevitable mass layoff?
thats why they got Kojima out announcing a game 7-8 years away
new initiative has started
GAS clearly fucked them hard
Firesprite I’m sure was cheap. Most of the talent was from the Sony Liverpool devs. Jim Ryan wanted to resurrect that studio and have a studio power in the UK.
Jim Ryan is exactly why we are here today with Totoki taking over to further wreck the brand. Jim is the worst thing to ever happen to Playstation along with Hermen Hulst's ascension.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the cancelled projects were live-service, Jim's pet project that backfired spectacularly. He must have cost Sony over 200M dollars just in those, at the very least. Probably double that.
Yep hated that acquisition from the minute it was announced should have used that money to secure more good IPs instead of wasting it on destiny
??? No1 is here for your philosophy.
Im not using a technique lol. Im saying this issue has nothing to do with buying more studios. Arrowhead just made a bunch of money right?
You release a successful game = profit. Buy the correct studios and they make you money.
The SP Multiplayer game was in concept phase. Development didn’t really start unlike Factions.
for sure they were
Factions cancelled
London Studio GAS Fantasy cancelled
Spiderman GAS cancelled
for sure there are a lot more cancelled as well
Lmao, no other studio they own makes more money for them than Insomniac, this is demoralizing and signals the direction they are going.
Sony is set on following Xbox footsteps into oblivion, taking everything PlayStation has built for granted.
But you need to have headcount for such projects. And they did.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Developer Insomniac Hiring Multiplayer Programmer
Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac is looking for a multiplayer programmer, causing some to wonder whether co-op could be in the upcoming game.
gamerant.com
That’s not how any of this works. They aren’t firing people because the business is posting losses, they are firing people because shareholders want more money.
