Dave Wilson on the call of a close, mid-summer matchup between the Buffalo Bisons and Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.

Close Game Between Bisons and Iron Pigs

Episode 149

Sony has laid off around 900 PlayStation employees, or roughly 10% of their workforce. This is just the latest in a seemingly never-ending bombardment of workforce reductions in triple-A game studios. Industry experts have long-warned of the unsustainability of the triple-A games space, and it seems as though the bubble is in the midst of bursting. Today, we discuss the PlayStation layoffs and what they portend for the triple-A games industry as we know it. As always, we conclude by talking about the games we're playing (Persona 3 Reload, A Little to the Left, Helldivers 2). This episode was recorded in February 2024. Royalty free music from BenSound.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - PlayStation Layoffs
15:09 - Triple-A Fallout and Ballooning Budgets
22:47 - Yearning For Old PlayStation
28:03 - Sacrifices for Sustainable AAA Games
41:25 - Industry-Wide Layoffs and AAA Limitations
49:45 - Persona 3 Reload
53:53 - A Little to the Left
56:56 - Helldivers 2

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