Sony’s Visual Arts Studio Hit by Layoffs: Support Teams Suffer Job Cuts
2024, I was hit by some tough news as a gamer when Sony announced layoffs affecting around 900 of their PlayStation team members, which accounted for about 8% of the workforce at that time. Later in the year, they shut down mobile game developer Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios, known for developing Concord. To add to it, in January 2025, Sony decided to cancel two upcoming PlayStation games from studios Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, which were part of their first-party teams. Although they assured the studios wouldn’t be closed down, the game cancellations seem to have had a ripple effect, affecting support teams within PlayStation.