{"id":13525,"date":"2024-02-28T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/pushing-buttons-when-even-playstation-is-cutting-jobs-something-is-seriously-wrong-with-games\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:37:28","slug":"pushing-buttons-when-even-playstation-is-cutting-jobs-something-is-seriously-wrong-with-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/pushing-buttons-when-even-playstation-is-cutting-jobs-something-is-seriously-wrong-with-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Sony\u2019s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development \u2013 it\u2019s go big, or go home<\/p>\n

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I wrote last week about the decades-long console wars between Xbox and PlayStation \u2013 and how the Microsoft\u2019s looser attitude to releasing games everywhere people play them, even on rival consoles, might be the beginning of an end to them. Now we have news that Sony is laying off 900 people<\/a> across its studios all over the world. Why is the maker of the hugely successful PlayStation 5, which has outsold its main rival by three to one, doing something so drastic? It seems that the end of the console wars might come not by choice, but by necessity: the way that the games industry worked in the past is simply not how it works now.<\/p>\n

The news that PlayStation would be laying off what amounts 8% of its workforce came via an all-company email from Jim Ryan, the company\u2019s outgoing boss \u2013 who, less than a week ago, was pictured<\/a> celebrating his Sony career at London Studios with many people who now no longer have jobs: the company is closing it entirely, along with cuts at Firesprite, and there will be \u201creductions in various functions\u201d across the company in the UK. Guerilla Games (makers of the Horizon series), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and Insomniac (Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man) are also seeing reductions. At the time of writing, Sony employees at US studios were still waiting to hear how they would be affected. \u201cPlease be kind to yourselves and to each other,\u201d the email ends, with almost jaw-dropping irony.<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: Sony\u2019s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development \u2013 it\u2019s go big, or go home
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\nI wrote last week about the decades-long console wars between Xbox and PlayStation \u2013 and how the Microsoft\u2019s looser attitude to releasing games everywhere people play them, even on rival consoles, might be the beginning of an end to them. Now we have news that Sony is laying off 900 people across its studios all over the world. Why is the maker of the hugely successful PlayStation 5, which has outsold its main rival by three to one, doing something so drastic? It seems that the end of the console wars might come not by choice, but by necessity: the way that the games industry worked in the past is simply not how it works now.
\nThe news that PlayStation would be laying off what amounts 8% of its workforce came via an all-company email from Jim Ryan, the company\u2019s outgoing boss \u2013 who, less than a week ago, was pictured celebrating his Sony career at London Studios with many people who now no longer have jobs: the company is closing it entirely, along with cuts at Firesprite, and there will be \u201creductions in various functions\u201d across the company in the UK. Guerilla Games (makers of the Horizon series), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and Insomniac (Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man) are also seeing reductions. At the time of writing, Sony employees at US studios were still waiting to hear how they would be affected. \u201cPlease be kind to yourselves and to each other,\u201d the email ends, with almost jaw-dropping irony. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Sony\u2019s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development \u2013 it\u2019s go big, or go home \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I wrote last week about the decades-long console wars between Xbox and …<\/p>\n

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