2024-02-27 15:11:03
Big earthquake. Sony Interactive Entertainment earlier announced that it would launch structural reforms including layoffs, mainly related to employees of its game development unit PlayStation Studios. According to foreign estimates, regarding 900 employees will be laid off this time, accounting for regarding 8% of all employees.
・London Studios was disbanded.
・Guerrilla and Firesprite are laying off employees.
・All remaining PlayStation Studios studios will undergo small-scale layoffs.
Hermen Hulst, senior vice president of PlayStation Studios, said in a statement that in response to the rapid changes in the game industry, game play and production methods have also undergone tremendous changes, and operations must be rethought to continue to provide the immersive and high-level storyline that PlayStation is good at. Quality gaming experience.
Hermen Hulst further explained that in order to face many challenges, PlayStation Studios continues to recruit more excellent studios with proven results to become a member, while investing in new technologies and partners, and recruiting talents from outside the industry. However, PlayStation Studios’ goal is to work together, not just expand, so following re-examining the studios and projects under which PlayStation Studios belongs, we decided to stop the development of some projects.
Among them, Hermen Hulst believes that good ideas may not necessarily lead to good games, or that plans that seem great at the beginning must be modified as the market or industry changes.
Sony also promised that PlayStation will continue to be a creator-led organization in the future, continue to develop important series of products, and bring high-quality new gaming experiences to fans.
Among them, Guerrilla is the development studio of “Horizon Dawn”, and Firesprite is the developer of “Horizon Call of the Mountain” VR version.
In 2021, Firesprite was acquired by Sony for developing the PS4 built-in game “The Playroom” and became the 14th member of PlayStation Studios. It later became one of the main studios developing PS VR games.
This time Firesprite was named for layoffs, and Sony recently released the news that PS VR2 will support the PC platform. Perhaps not only Sony’s development power has changed, but also the platform management will have other arrangements.
London Studios, which was directly disbanded, was founded in 2002. Since the PS2 era, it has continued to launch experimental products, such as “EyeToy”, “Wonderbook”, “EyePet” and other works. In 2016, he began to get involved in the field of VR virtual reality development due to the development of PS VR exclusive experience content “PlayStation VR Worlds”.
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