Sony’s PlayStation Visual Arts team has been hit by a number of layoffs as a result of internal restructuring.
John Borba, who worked at Visual Arts as a Project Coordinator, revealed on LinkedIn that he was one of the casualties of the layoffs, due to a “large pivot on the AAA multiplayer game I’ve been working on,” which resulted in the aforementioned restructuring.
Sadly, due to a large pivot on the AAA multiplayer game I’ve been working on, there was some restructuring within our studio and I was one among the people let go to support the new budgetary needs. Basically, the industry is tightening belts all over the place and I ended up where a lot of folks are right now. I love the people I got to work with and the projects I worked on and I’m sure you’ll love them too.
Back in October last year, Sony announced that Visual Arts was teaming up with Naughty Dog and a new studio on a AAA project, which is heavily speculated to be a remake of the first Uncharted game.
[Source – John Borba on LinkedIn]