It’s no secret that the gaming industry isn’t doing well right now, and even with “big news” regarding the PS5 Pro, gamers as a whole aren’t impressed with what Sony and Microsoft are doing currently. They are just some of the publishers and developers who have laid off hundreds, if not thousands, of workers in the last few years, and gamers want the suffering to stop. However, if you were to ask Chris Deering, the former head of PlayStation Europe, and the man who helped launch the PS1, he would tell those who were laid off…to go drive an Uber.
Yes, really. This came from a chat on the My Perfect Console podcast, where everything started out fine, with Chris Deering focusing on the launch of the PS1 and beyond. Then, when the topic turned to the current state of the gaming industry, he waved off the PROVEN concepts of greed being behind the layoffs:
While that latter part is fair, that doesn’t apply to what’s happening now. There is a “cycle” regarding game development in which people are brought in and out due to how games are made. The DIFFERENCE, is that greedy overlords like The...
