Bungie is laying off 220 employees and moving others to PlayStation

Another circular of layoffs has deed Bungie. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons made the announcement connected the studio’s website, citing the expanding costs of improvement and economical conditions arsenic the crushed for the simplification of unit — a refrain that’s go communal successful the past 2 years of prolific video crippled manufacture layoffs. Parsons wrote that 220 roles would beryllium eliminated, representing 17 percent of the company’s workforce.

Additionally, Parsons wrote that Bungie was moving to integrate different 155 employees into different departments wrong Sony Interactive Entertainment. These numbers, combined with the 100 radical laid disconnected successful October of past year, mean that Bungie has mislaid astir 40 percent of its full workforce successful the past 12 months. Bungie had astir 1,200 employees past twelvemonth earlier 100 radical were laid off amid a hold to the large Destiny 2: The Final Shape expansion.

This latest layoff announcement was accompanied by the quality that Bungie employees are moving connected a caller game.

“We are moving with PlayStation Studios enactment to rotation retired 1 of our incubation projects – an enactment crippled acceptable successful a brand-new science-fantasy beingness – to signifier a caller workplace wrong PlayStation Studios to proceed its promising development,” Parsons wrote. 

Parsons offered an mentation for each the news, stating that Bungie grew excessively rapidly and dispersed its enactment squad excessively bladed among its galore projects. This had a knock-on effect connected the studio’s known projects, resulting successful what Parsons called a “quality miss” with Destiny 2’s Lightfall enlargement and the hold of its adjacent game, Marathon.

“We were overly ambitious, our fiscal information margins were subsequently exceeded, and we began moving successful the red,” helium wrote.

Parsons wrote that Bungie volition proceed to absorption connected Destiny 2 and Marathon. “We inactive person implicit 850 squad members gathering Destiny and Marathon, and we volition proceed to physique astonishing experiences that transcend our players’ expectations.”