Sony comments on God of War dev layoffs and what they mean for the studio

Trimming the fat is something that the industry needs to do more of if they want to continue to attain success; Sony made a good but tough decision here.

wish they were doing 60 fps instead of 30 fps!

It seems to me that most studios are getting just massive in size, and the costs of having a studio of around 300people forces them into doing the same thing that gave them their first success...its not healthy in a creative industry.

"As to when and what we’ll see from Santa Monica next, Rhode said we’ll just have to be patient and wait" I'm sure that everyone here will follow that advice and not resort to meaningless speculation and arguing as well as misinterpreting and overblow any shred of info or "leak" about them.

I think studios should realize and follow the foot steps of Rockstar games ...... releasing games frequently is not the point making sure they are the best in their class is important... If studios feel that things are not meeting to the requirement then create a R&D division and let veterans continue to innovate.... will be missing some greats devs from Santa :(

About time publishers started reining in their budgets. After the commercial failures that were Ryse, Bioshock Infinite and LA Noire and Tomb Raider taking a year to meet expectations, I expect this to start happening across more studios this year.

Sony: so many people are buying PS4 with no games out there that we realized that the games don't really matter, so we're going to stop investing in software and new IPs and just double-down on PR instead.

Yeah, remember when you decided to follow that rapidly passing fad of shoving multiplayer on games that don't need it and not pay enough attention to the single player aspect therefore becoming "meh"? This is what happens. Glad to see you seem to be learning your lesson with The Order.

yea yea last time herd reboot on a game i liked devil may cry died....god damn i miss dante!!!!!

I just love how people want some kind of change to GOW. Leave the game alone. Move on to new IPs. God of War doesn't need a reboot. Like The Order 1886. Just stay focused on the new IPs. Cause at this moment The Order is looking pretty sweet.

They need to make GOW an open world ARPG, maybe even fix it so you can choose your gender Bioware style.

So as suspected, the title was a money sink that had really no chance of being successful. Sometimes you just pull the plug.

Ascension is the second worst God of War game I've ever played. Beautiful graphics couldn't save its shallow combat mechanics.

How can you make such improvement in III then end with this? Multiplayer focus that's why!

I hope the studio moves onto other IPs, they clearly have different ideas that no longer blend well with making GoW better. The layoffs are a downer though, talented studio. But they've lost a touch of what made them great.

God of War: Norse Mythology! You heard it here first! D:

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I could almost swear that I read the last three comments somewhere else before. Weird. = )

GOW franchise for $ony worth more that the peoples who made it.

I don't believe what he's saying at all...these companies rather say they had to make cuts because special projects, rather than say they are losing money as a company. Companies like these only keep you on their staff for so long.

If the rumors are true that Sony got the rights to Crash back and plan to announce it this month, maybe they had Santa Monica drop what they're doing to work on Crash.

What if there was a New God of war.....but based in somewhere outside of Greece....Perhaps Scandinavia? :-?

Yeah, what an amazing place to be employed.

Oh, wait. Sorry guys. :o(

I hope that it wasnt a good project.