Gerücht: „Blutbad“ in der Gaming-Branche steht unmittelbar bevor, da Sony, Microsoft und andere sich auf Massenentlassungen einstellen
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06/rumour-gaming-industry-bloodbath-imminent-as-sony-microsoft-and-more-brace-for-mass-layoffs
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again, huh?
I am struggling to remember a time when this hasn’t been the headline.
I’d believe it. Everyone and their mom microtransactioned the hell out of the scene. I skipped so many otherwise decent games. Honestly, been playing the same competitive games for about a decade.. It’s all churning the same shit out over and over with better graphics. My kids prefer the classics (past 2D anyway) over most new games.
That can’t be, this is the best economy ever according to right-wingers, apparently nothing is wrong in the world. They are evening will to take all from the middle classes just so the wealthy can have more money, and yet they can’t figure out way trickle down economics does not work.
Let’s hope for a flood of good indie games in the next years created by dev fired from these companies.
I’m still half expecting Rockstar to delay GTA6 by another few years because hardware & consoles now are so expensive expensive they won’t makes their sales targets of relying on people to buy a new console + GTA6.
If this happens things will be dire.
Gaming crash of 2026 will be remembered
Just another week in the games industry then, I’m surprised there’s even any employees left at the rate we see headlines like this lol
buying studios for billions and them getting them to make awful games has had a negative effect? surely not….
This time feels so stupid. Sony killed it with the ps4 and instead of repeating it, they went all in on live service games that nobody was asking for and now they screwed it all up.
Microsoft did bad last gen and instead bought so many studios and now own a huge amount amazing IPs that they decided to sit on and just do absolutely nothing with.
Both MS and Sony released nothing that gamers want and are shocked things aren’t going well. Knowing what people want is hard but Sony cracked it last gen. They have no excuse
Fact: this will be every industry and 2009 is going to look like an economic golden age compared to what happens next
Y’know I can’t help but find it funny when they talk about a company „bracing“ for layoffs. The company isn’t bracing for shit. The company’s getting ready to execute layoffs, it’s the workers getting ready to lose their livelihoods.
Somehow those big fat yearly bonuses have to be paid for management no matter what.
The first mass layoff event in like a month.
But dont worry guys the board has a surefire billion dollar idea we’re putting all our eggs in. OK so it’s this hot new thing its called a live service…
Support indie games, boycott AAA 🖕
It’s starting already, I work in AAA and all week I’ve been seeing LinkedIn posts in my network and around it of people who are seeking new opportunities as their studios are closing their doors, not just in big studios but in AA and below too. Basically anything not independently funded.
Maybe this time they’ll learn (Spoiler: they won’t)
Sony and Microsoft spending hundreds of millions on failures and layoffs while Nintendo just keeps trucking along on their own little train going choo choo and making bank.
This is what happens when companies are fixated on next quarter financial success, not ensuring that they will be sustainable and viable in ten years time.
Thought this was already happening
It was expected. Consoles and PC prices are out of reach, and the people splurging the money for it then don’t have much remaining to play lot of games. AI is basically destroying the industry.
Money has moved on to AI and games are taking insane timelines to develop for what should be AA resourced games
Why? especially in sonys case… have they been seeing big decrease in sales or something? How does this improve their product?
Oh.. they think they can replace creative innovations with AI prompts.. gotcha.
The indie development scene is about to blow up again with massive talent while major teams try to figure out yet again what they’re doing wrong.
¡AI, caramba !
Insanely gigantic income from a massive global market – forever in crisis and falling apart behind the scenes.