Sony Lays Off Unknown Number of Workers at PlayStation Visual Arts Studio

Sony has laid disconnected an chartless fig of individuals from its San Diego-based Visual Arts workplace arsenic good arsenic PS Studios Malaysia, according to a Kotaku report and testimonies from erstwhile employees connected LinkedIn.

Per Kotaku, unit were informed earlier this week that March 7 would beryllium their past day, and included developers who had contributed to a fig of antithetic projects, specified arsenic a recent canceled live-service crippled astatine Bend Studio. Visual Arts is an creation and method enactment workplace that has worked implicit the years with PlayStation's different first-party studios, astir notably the caller The Last of Us Part 1 and 2 remasters.

IGN has identified a fig of developers connected LinkedIn saying they had been laid disconnected from Visual Arts, arsenic good arsenic astatine slightest 1 from PS Studios Malaysia. One erstwhile Visual Arts worker noted that the layoffs were "due to aggregate task cancellations."

This is the 2nd circular of layoffs astatine Visual Arts successful the past 2 years, after different question impacting an chartless fig of individuals successful 2023. It is unclear however galore radical stay astatine Visual Arts oregon what the workplace is moving connected now. IGN has reached retired to PlayStation for comment.

The layoffs lend to an ongoing inclination of games manufacture layoffs and task cancellations that's been reported connected since 2023, erstwhile it was estimated that implicit 10,000 crippled developers were laid off. That fig roseate to over 14,000 successful 2024, and successful 2025 the inclination has continued, albeit with acold hazier numbers owed to much studios declining to study the nonstop fig impacted.

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