Chris Deering is optimistic about the future of the industry.
“I don’t believe that you, with your skills in this area, [vývoje her] “They’ve lived their whole lives in poverty or had to limit themselves,” the former president of SIE, or PlayStation, says on the My Perfect Console podcast. Chris DearingHe headed the company from 1995 to 2005 and today serves as a consultant to other companies.
Dearing is optimistic about the future of the gaming industry. According to him, opportunities will come back for laid-off workers and the current downturn will just have to be weathered. “The gaming industry is still in the middle of things (…), but now you have to (…) figure out how to work around it. Drive an Uber or something, find cheap housing and move to the beach for a year,” he advises.
Dearing sees the shortcomings of the company’s operations, but he also understands the logic behind the numbers behind the waves of layoffs: “I always tried to slow down the pace at which we hired new people because I always knew there was a cyclical downturn coming and I didn’t want to run into the same problems that Sony had in electronics. Of course, there have been a lot of layoffs at Sony studios recently (…), and I don’t know… if customers don’t spend money on the last game, it’s hard to justify spending money on the next game.”
“I always say the fun thing about this business is that you don’t get depressed. Things come up and you deal with them, like a game. Get over it,” he adds.
According to the Game Industry Layoffs website, 10,500 game industry employees lost their jobs last year. The estimated number of those leaving this year is already 11,500. The aforementioned PlayStation laid off 900 people in the February wave and closed its London studio.
Source :Indian TV
