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Sony corta trabajos en PlayStation Visual Arts Studio

Autor: Emma May 02,2025

Sony ha realizado recientemente despidos que afectan a un número no especificado de empleados en su estudio de artes visuales en San Diego y PS Studios Malasia, según lo informado por Kotaku y confirmado a través de publicaciones de LinkedIn por ex empleados.

Según Kotaku, el personal afectado fue notificado a principios de esta semana que su empleo terminaría el 7 de marzo. Los despidos incluían desarrolladores que habían trabajado en varios proyectos, incluido un juego de servicio en vivo recientemente cancelado en Bend Studio. Visual Arts, conocido por su apoyo técnico y de arte, ha colaborado con otros estudios de primera parte de PlayStation, especialmente en los remasters de los últimos de nosotros, parte 1 y 2.

IGN también ha identificado a varios desarrolladores en LinkedIn que confirmaron sus despidos de las artes visuales, junto con al menos uno de PS Studios Malasia. Un ex empleado de artes visuales declaró en LinkedIn que estos despidos fueron el resultado de "múltiples cancelaciones de proyectos".

Esto marca la segunda ronda de despidos en Visual Arts en los últimos dos años, luego de un evento similar en 2023. El número actual de empleados en Visual Arts y los proyectos en curso del estudio siguen sin estar claros. IGN ha buscado comentarios de PlayStation sobre estos desarrollos.

Estos despidos son parte de una tendencia más amplia de recortes de empleo y cancelaciones de proyectos dentro de la industria del juego, que comenzó a aumentar en 2023. Ese año vio más de 10,000 desarrolladores de juegos, un número que aumentó a más de 14,000 en 2024. En 2025, la tendencia ha continuado, aunque las cifras exactas son más importantes por venir como más estudios eligen no desplegar el total de su decisión.

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