Sony announce 900 layoffs across Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Insomniac and PlayStation studios worldwide
Sony announce 900 layoffs across Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Insomniac and PlayStation studios worldwide
Another day, another videogame company jettisoning a large number of people "who have contributed to our success" so as…
It is with great regret that I must inform our employees that we had a wildly profitable year.
wow
such brave
much leader
fire many workers
stonks
very smart
amaze
They've sold 117 million PS4s and 59 million PS5s.
They take a 30% cut on each game sold on the PlayStation store. That's $18 for every $60 game sold.
If every one of those people bought just one game per year, Sony brings in $3,006,000,000 every year. Even if only half of gamers buy one game per year, that's still an insane amount of money.
Corporate greed on full display. And don't tell me it's because of game development costs. Because:
The next game, which is a fan-favourite is Uncharted 4. This game needed $40 million to be completed, and after its release, it made around $1 billion.
And the best of them all, Marvel Spider-Man. This game cost $100 million to be developed, and when it was released, it made a whopping $6.8 billion.
Sony-funded games are wildly profitable.
Pretty sure laying people off is a regular part of the game development business cycle. Seems like such a cruel industry to work for
Not on the scale it’s been happening recently it isn’t