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Yet Another Major Studio Is Reportedly Facing Massive Layoffs After Live-Service Failure

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joshua Robertson

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Days Gone developer Bend Studio has been hit with sizable layoffs following the cancellation of its unannounced live-service title earlier this year.
It's being reported that 30 percent of Bend Studio is getting laid off, which is around 40 people.
This follows a string of layoffs and studio closure at PlayStation, as it appears its live-service plans are going up in smoke.

It's been a rough couple of years for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation, as its grand live-service plans seem to have exploded in its face rather dramatically. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Concord was an absolute disaster, Marathon🤡 looks like it's h🐼eading down the same path, and The Las🍌t of Us Factions 2 never even saw the light of day. Apart from Helldivers 2🐼, PlayStation's live-service projects have been failures.

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That's most likely why we've seen a slight pivot recently, with reports of live-service projects at multiple PlayStation first-party studios being cancelled. Days Gone developer Bend Studio was one such developer, which had an𝔉 unannounced live-service game cancelled at the start of the year, and it has now recently had to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:start pitching new ideas to Sony.

It always sucks to see a project cancelled, ཧmostly because of the human cost. Every time a high-profile title is cancelled, you can almost guarantee layoffs aren't far behind, and while it took almost five months, Bend Studio is reportedly another classic example.

Days Gone Developer Is Laying Off 30 Percent Of Staff, Moving Onto New Project

Sony's Bend studio, which canceled a live-service game earlier this year, is laying off 30% of staff today (around 40 people), Bloomberg News has learned. The studio has been spinning up a new project following the cancellation. —

, a new project is in the works at Be𝄹nd Studio, though at the cost of 30 percent of its entire workforce. Schreier reports that around 40 people have lost their job, though it's unclear whether they will be helped into similar positions across PlayStation's studios, as is the case sometimes, or whether they're just gone for good.

Bend Studio is now the latest PlayStation developer to be hit with layoffs, as Sony has been on a rampage over the past couple of years. Concord developer F꧋irewalk Studios wa♔s completely shut down, just like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:London Studio in February last year. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bungie has been hit witꩲh several waves of layoffs - and that was before this Marathon debacle - while Ballistic Moon was "effectively closeꦉd" after its Until Dawn remake. Not a goo💖d look for Sony, and now we can throw Bend Studio on the pile too.