Sucker Punch Faces Wave Of Layoffs

Not less than 26 folks have been laid off from Sucker Punch Productions as Sony noticed “challenges available in the market.” Much like a studio like Arkane Lyon, who’re looking for a purchaser following the massive XBOX Reset factor, the Ghost of Yotei dev shouldn’t be an enormous studio within the scheme of AAA builders.

A report from Aftermath shared an inside e-mail that exposed a number of positions have been eradicated to navigate the challenges available in the market and wishes of their subsequent challenge.

“After rigorously observing the challenges available in the market and reviewing the workforce wants for our subsequent challenge, we’ve determined to make some staffing reductions. A number of positions throughout Sucker Punch can be eradicated because of this.

We all know it is a lot to soak up, and we need to guarantee you that we didn’t make this determination frivolously. Now we have given this lots of consideration and labored to help our affected colleagues throughout this transition in addition to we will. … There’s no getting round that it is a onerous day. Subsequent week we’ll go into extra particulars concerning the future.”

It seems like there are extra particulars that can little question get pushed to public both formally or due to some mysterious whistleblower. Of word, Sucker Punch solely actually has round 160 folks, although we will slash 26 from that rely now.