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With Layoffs Like These, Are AAA Games Sustainable? - Beyond 838

Beyond

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Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What’s happening in the video game industry? The BEYOND crew discuss the recent layoffs happening in the games industry, including Sony announcing a significant amount of layoffs hitting PlayStation. The #PlayStation layoffs affected 900 staff members, with Jim Ryan issuing a statement about the situation - but what does it all mean? Max, Brian and Akeem break it all down, plus touching upon the EA Games layoffs that hit 670 workers. This also led to EA sunsetting a few games, and announcing it’ll be moving away from future licensed IP. The BEYOND crew also dive into the updates heading to Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 on the #PlayStation5 with the addition of New Games Plus content on the #PS5, as well as exploring the rumored PS5 Pro. Not to mention the potential of PSVR2 having PC compatibility - what will it mean for PlayStation in the VR space moving forward? Plus, Respawn’s canceled Star Wars FPS was rumored to be about a Mandalorian bounty hunter, much like Lucasarts’ Star Wars 1313. Sadly, it seems like games about intergalactic bounty hunters have a hard time getting made, even beyond Star Wars: Metroid Prime 4 is in development hell, the original Prey 2 was shelved, and High on Life came out, but not without its share of controversy. Is the genre cursed? All this and more in this episode of BEYOND! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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PlayStation show episode 838. I'm your host Max Scoville and I'm joined today by two of my best

0:55.4

pals in the whole world, Akeem Luansen and Brian Altano. Beyond.

0:58.8

Beyond.

0:59.8

Hey, what's up? Max, it's nice to see you, buddy.

1:02.3

It's good to see you, man. It's good to see you, man.

1:03.0

It's been a minute since we had you out here.

1:04.0

Yeah.

1:05.0

Yeah, I know, I miss talking to you guys.

1:07.0

We all have a bunch of irons in the fire, a bunch of stuff going on here.

1:10.0

So it's sometimes tricky to throw the show together if you've been I don't know if you're one of our regular

1:14.0

listeners first of all thank you but also if you're worried about why this this show was late it's because we had some stuff

1:18.9

going on earlier this week so we're recording on Thursday instead of Tuesday but here we are the

1:23.3

episode's probably up on Friday I hope I hope everything goes well anyway yeah it's

1:27.8

been it's been kind of a week there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff going

1:31.0

on in the world of games and it's not really fun stuff

1:33.9

kind of a I mean there's kind of been a running theme of you know this this year and last year of

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