Dave Karraker: Layoffs not due to PS3 sales

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) PR boss Dave Karraker has released a statement denying that the recent layoffs of SCEA HQ employees stemmed directly from trailing PS3 sales. Here’s the statement made by Karraker to video game news website Next-Gen:

This move is not wholly related to any one product in our portfolio. More accurately, it is reflective of shifts in the marketplace and in consumers’ wants and needs, such as the rise of digital content delivery and networked services.

In order to maintain our market leadership, the management of SCEA has found it necessary to analyze the business and restructure the company as necessary.

This is contrary to earlier reports that the lay-offs were a result of the company’s “multi-billion dollar losses and the high cost of PS3 game development“. Whatever the reason, around 80 to 100 SCEA employees – most of them coming from the company’s headquarters in Foster City, California – got laid off.

Via Next Generation

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) PR boss Dave Karraker has released a statement denying that the recent layoffs of SCEA HQ employees stemmed directly from trailing PS3 sales. Here’s the statement made by Karraker to video game news website Next-Gen:

This move is not wholly related to any one product in our portfolio. More accurately, it is reflective of shifts in the marketplace and in consumers’ wants and needs, such as the rise of digital content delivery and networked services.

In order to maintain our market leadership, the management of SCEA has found it necessary to analyze the business and restructure the company as necessary.

This is contrary to earlier reports that the lay-offs were a result of the company’s “multi-billion dollar losses and the high cost of PS3 game development“. Whatever the reason, around 80 to 100 SCEA employees – most of them coming from the company’s headquarters in Foster City, California – got laid off.

Via Next Generation