At Sony, too, it rumbles in the box again. The latest reports have been saved again at the workforce at a PlayStation studio.
The complete flop of Concord and the deletion of various projects and live service games in the PlayStation Studios continues to have an effect. Personnel was released again, this time apparently at the support developer Playstation Visual Arts.
At least this is confirmed by a statement on LinkedIn from a former project manager of the studio. "It was hard to wake up with the news that many friends and former colleagues from PSVA were released this morning," wrote the ex-employee. "The layoffs today have hit hard. PSVA has released developers with decades of expertise, talents that will only be very difficult to replace again. This industry can be unpredictable, but the skills, the experience and passion of the people I have worked with at PSVA are undeniable."
In the past, PlayStation Visual Arts worked primarily as a supportive studio for various internal developments and as support. The studio also worked with Naughty Dog on the Remasters of The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2.
After some ambitious plans and the fuelter's total failure of Concord, which was taken from the servers just a few days after the release, the panic apparently used Sony. Sony had some plans in the live service area, but ongoing projects such as a new game from Bend Studios, the multiplayer offshoots of The Last of Us and Marvel's Spider-Man and some other projects were then canceled, as were a planned reboot from Twisted Metal.
The crisis in the game industry still doesn't seem to end. It has only been in the last few daysalso dismantled a German developer and alsowas apparently released.
