Media Molecule to lay off ~20% staff members

[the-pi-guy]

According to VGC

Sports Illustrated's GLHF says the studio held an internal meeting today and told staff that it planned to lay off around 20 of its 135 employees.

[nnodley]

i mean what do you expect when they really haven't done anything since before Dreams.  Dreams was cool, but I doubt it made much money

but sucks though

[BananaKing]

Shame that this happened. This was once was such a promising and prominent Studio for Sony. LBP added a unique flare to the PS3 gen. But they haven't done a "real game" since tearaway.

[Legend]

Ouch.

Have they ran into trouble with a new game, or is this still just Dreams?

i mean what do you expect when they really haven't done anything since before Dreams.  Dreams was cool, but I doubt it made much money

but sucks though

Crazy that they never reversed course and made it more like a game engine game. Roblox makes billions.

[the-pi-guy]

Ouch.

Have they ran into trouble with a new game, or is this still just Dreams?

I imagine they're cutting less needed people in between Dreams and the new game.

MM is still pretty big.

[SWORDF1SH]

They hired a lot of people from the Dreams community for Dreams specific stuff so I'd imagine a lot of the 20% are those people.

[kitler53]

not surprised.  

I still have love for MM but there hasn't been much to love in a long long time. 

[the-pi-guy]

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