The video games trade has been caught in a devastating grip of infinite layoffs for over a 12 months and a half at this level, however different tech industries have been feeling comparable impacts as nicely. For example, one other division of Sony has reportedly been hit with mass layoffs.
As reported by Mainichi, Sony’s recordable media enterprise, which is accountable for analysis and improvement of all bodily media, has been hit with layoffs, with roughly 250 jobs being impacted. As per the report, the layoffs are half of a bigger plan to take the foot of the fuel within the bodily media area, with the corporate’s intention allegedly being to ultimately stop manufacturing of bodily media (together with Blu-Ray discs) solely. What precisely the timeline for the plan appears like is unclear.
The video games trade has, after all, been transferring conclusively within the route of an all-digital future, and despite the fact that bodily media does nonetheless have a maintain over a sizeable portion of the market, its slice of the pie is shortly and continually shrinking.
That’s, after all, simply as true outdoors of video games as nicely, all of which is to say that it isn’t stunning to see Sony reportedly starting to organize for an all-digital future, one thing that a number of different corporations have been doing as nicely, together with Microsoft.
