A damning new report claims that Bungie mislead Sony about its monetary place forward of its acquisition by PlayStation. The studio’s administration has come underneath scrutiny following a second spherical of mass layoffs inside a 12 months that didn’t even spare long-time senior executives. Now, many former workers are laying the blame solely on CEO Pete Parsons.
Sony spent $3.6 billion buying Bungie — was it price it?
The aforementioned report comes from veteran journalist Stephen Totilo, who spoke to former Bungie workers to unravel issues. At the least one in every of them addressed what many analysts and the gaming neighborhood have been left puzzled by: Sony spending $3.6 billion to amass the studio.
The worker reckons that Sony overpaid for Bungie after the studio misled the PlayStation maker by promoting “issues they had been simply not capable of ship.” Whereas Future 2: The Remaining Form has been extensively praised, Totilo has been informed that the newest cuts had been being deliberate lengthy earlier than the growth launched.
What’s much more attention-grabbing is that it appears Bungie was a bit determined to strike a cope with Sony. Considered one of Totilo’s sources mentioned that if Bungie hadn’t been acquired, it could have gone bankrupt. “The alternate historical past is insolvency,” they mentioned.
Bungie had 1000’s of workers at one level, which have now been diminished to 850 following the newest spherical of cuts. The studio hasn’t launched something exterior of Future and its sequel during the last decade, and has gone by high-profile splits with each Microsoft and Activision up to now.
It has additionally emerged that senior Future executives Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy have been let go. Suffice to say, the frequent denominator right here is Bungie’s administration.
