Ronin_7
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Place your bets, sadly.
Business plans change, and Sony would not confirm if the discussed cuts are still on the table or already completed. But a notes file referencing a November 9 PlayStation off-site meeting reiterates the 50-75 number of cuts. The notes suggest the cuts are being asked of other PlayStation studios as well, including the line "there will be one studio closure." Sony did not respond when asked to clarify.
In an especially tough year for video game companies, Sony hasn't been immune. It closed Pixel Opus earlier this year, and Sackboy maker Media Molecule saw layoffs. Contractors were cut at The Last of Us studio Naughty Dog and PlayStation's Visual Arts studio suffered cuts as well. It's hard to tell if that's the extent of the damage or just the beginning. The hacked materials from Insomniac show leaders at a studio that's delivered hit after hit scrambling to arrive at a plan for the next five years so it can keep doing that.
What Hacked Files Tell Us About The Studio Behind Spider-Man 2
Internal documents show how a big PlayStation studio plans its future
kotaku.com