The video games trade has been caught in a devastating grip of infinite layoffs for over a yr and a half at this level, however different tech industries have been feeling comparable impacts as properly. As an illustration, one other division of Sony has reportedly been hit with mass layoffs.
As reported by Mainichi, Sony’s recordable media enterprise, which is chargeable 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 house, with the corporate’s intention allegedly being to finally stop manufacturing of bodily media (together with Blu-Ray discs) completely. What precisely the timeline for the plan appears to be like like is unclear.
The video games trade has, in fact, been shifting conclusively within the route of an all-digital future, and although bodily media does nonetheless have a maintain over a sizeable portion of the market, its slice of the pie is rapidly and continuously shrinking.
That’s, in fact, simply as true outdoors of video games as properly, all of which is to say that it isn’t shocking to see Sony reportedly starting to organize for an all-digital future, one thing that a number of different firms have been doing as properly, together with Microsoft.
