By now you’re probably aware of the recent news from Sony
announcing that the PS5 is releasing Holiday 2020 which is between October and
December that year, I’d put my money on a November release seeing as the
previous consoles have been released around that time.
What you may not be so familiar with however is the news that
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe was hit with significant layoffs around
the same time as the announcements with reports that employees are being asked
to re-interview for positions that they already had with one employee taking to
twitter to say:
“I was part of the creative services team at #PlayStation that got #laidoff today. This group of talented & passionate people are out of a job & now #lookingforwork. If you’re hiring for project coordinators, managers, & designers please post below!”
It wouldn’t take much of a leap for people to figure out that
the recent PS5 announcement was announced solely to mitigate the coverage of
these layoffs which is quite frankly an underhanded move on Sony’s part,
clever, but underhanded.
There’s been some additional reports that the SIE US branch
who were responsible for the announcement also failed to inform the SIE Europe
branch with employees in Europe not finding out about the announcement until
after the report came out, it’s clear the Sony is experiencing some internal
conflict right now and with the PS5 in a crucial time of development it may not
look so good for Sony in the near future.
