Amid the holiday season still taking place, developers are facing major data breaches when most vulnerable. Most recently, it was reported that Ubisoft faced the same fate just ahead of the holidays with over 900 GBs of data exposed. Additionally, this is no secret for Insomniac Games too. The most evident is release windows for Marvel’s Wolverine, a Venom spin-off, and the next Ratchet & Clank games being discovered.
Additionally, the same mass leak also shared that a new IP is on the way. Part of an internal roadmap, it is revealed that Insomniac Games plans to roll out a brand new project somewhere in 2031-32. Even Sunset Overdrive made some news. It was shared that Insomniac Games only profited $567 from the Xbox One exclusive, whilst 2021’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is still in the red by $8 million roughly.
From a new finding reported by Kotaku, there is more grave news that came out from the leak. Atop of sharing employee information, documents also share that there are more layoffs underway. “Slimming down Ratchet and cutting new IP will not account for the reductions Sony is looking for,” one Powerpoint slide note from Sony reads.
The document continues, “To remove 50-75 people strategically, our best option is to cut deeply into Wolverine and Spider-Man 3, replacing lower performers with team members from Ratchet and new IP.” The statements were directed to Insomniac Games head Ted Price. Kotaku does relay that Sony would not comment on the finding, but entertains there could be changes leading in to the coming future.
But what makes things more worrisome is that there is also one comment disclosing an entire studio closing. Upon reiterating on the sub-100 layoffs, the document also presses that “there will be one studio closure” as well. This applies to the greater PlayStation Studios; leaving it undetermined if it will be one of the teams at Insomniac Games or one of the several global teams under the PlayStation banner.
What is your thoughts on Sony’s recent statement?
Source: Kotaku