{"id":40375,"date":"2023-12-21T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/insomniac-and-other-sony-studios-are-dealing-with-internal-issues-they-will-have-to-make-cuts-and-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:15:12","slug":"insomniac-and-other-sony-studios-are-dealing-with-internal-issues-they-will-have-to-make-cuts-and-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/insomniac-and-other-sony-studios-are-dealing-with-internal-issues-they-will-have-to-make-cuts-and-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomniac and other Sony studios are dealing with internal issues, they will have to make cuts and layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In recent days, a lot of information has been leaking on the Internet from the ransomware attack on Insomniac Games, one of the leading studios belonging to Sony, which gave us the title Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man 2 this year. In addition to leaks about Wolverine or other plans for the future, we also learned a lot of numbers and behind-the-scenes information, which of course is not always positive.  And Kotaku magazine drew attention to some of them yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Leaked presentations and documents suggest that the current AAA game development budget is unsustainable. <strong>Spider-Man 2 was supposed to cost around 300 million dollars, which is three times more than the first part<\/strong>.  In one of the presentations, the question is asked whether the increase in the budget is even visible to the players themselves.  The sustainable budget would be under $215 million, according to internal documents.<\/p>\n<p>In a relatively recent presentation from November, it is written that Sony is preparing relatively drastic measures. <strong>50 to 75 &#8220;low performing&#8221; employees<\/strong>who are working on Wolverine and Spider-Man 3,<strong> to be released<\/strong>, being replaced by people from the teams that worked on the new Ratchet and the brand new IP.  They are supposedly veterans of the studio with the appropriate know-how, and the management therefore does not want to lose them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the changes will not only affect Insomniac.  In another document from November, it is written that<strong> it will cut corners in other Sony studios as well<\/strong>whereas<strong> one studio is even supposed to be closed completely<\/strong>.  But we don&#8217;t know which one it is.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '574126153511361'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, a lot of information has been leaking on the Internet from the ransomware attack on Insomniac Games, one of the leading studios belonging to Sony, which gave us the title Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man 2 this year. In addition to leaks about Wolverine or other plans for the future, we also learned a lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[5456,13498,6629,4708,5689,3201,343,977,494,746,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40472,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions\/40472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}