Ex-Sony boss Chris Deering has suggested that those laid off from their jobs in the gaming industry should "drive an Uber" or "go to the beach for a year".
Appearing on writer Simon Parkin's podcast My Perfect Console, Deering says he doesn't think it's "fair" to say the widespread industry layoffs, which have seen companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Take-Two affected, are the result of "greed".
He goes on to say that "if the money isn't coming in" from gamers on the games Sony - or any company - is making, then it's "hard to justify spending the money for the next game".
Deering says it's "probably very painful for the managers" when employees are laid off. Rather tellingly, he doesn't acknowledge that it's also probably pretty painful for the employees themselves.
He then says having skills in game development won't result in a "lifetime of poverty or limitation", and that employees who are laid off should "take a few, figure out how to get through it, drive an Uber or whatever, go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year".
Following these comments, Deering says he assumes those who...
