Dave Karraker: Layoffs not due to PS3 sales

Posted Jun 6, 2007 at 9:13AM by Karl B. Listed in: PS3 Tags: California, SCEA, Sony
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Sony Computer Entertainment - Image 1Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) PR boss Dave Karraker has released a statement denying that the recent layoffs of SCEA HQ employees stemmed directly from trailing PS3 sales. Here's the statement made by Karraker to video game news website Next-Gen:

This move is not wholly related to any one product in our portfolio. More accurately, it is reflective of shifts in the marketplace and in consumers' wants and needs, such as the rise of digital content delivery and networked services.


In order to maintain our market leadership, the management of SCEA has found it necessary to analyze the business and restructure the company as necessary.


This is contrary to earlier reports that the lay-offs were a result of the company's "multi-billion dollar losses and the high cost of PS3 game development". Whatever the reason, around 80 to 100 SCEA employees - most of them coming from the company's headquarters in Foster City, California - got laid off.

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# Its not the ps3's fault directlyGuest 2007-06-06 08:40
the bluray format is costing sony big tme.. microsoft is finally making a profit on 360 units and the wii seems to be printing money eventhough stores are being forced to hold back sales.

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# uhhNOYS 2007-06-06 11:51
no its not the ps3 fault all of sony's products are crap

right now with no creativity just stolen ideas

Home= sims theft

six junksis=wii ripoff

rumble=blatant theft but finally settled lawsuit

ps3 asthetic design taken from spiderman no creativity there spiderman game and movie sucked

exploding laptop batteries

they needed to clean house and get some new people with fresh and exciting ideas

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# Hey stupid!Guest 2007-06-06 13:58
Home: Home has nothing to do with the sims at all you dumb "F". the sims is more of a role playing game. Home is an online service, you can control your character and meet people online. They may have copied Xbox live achievements by having trophies but you didn't mention that so... naa "f" it.



six junksis+wii ripoff: Six Axis and the Wiimote are never the same. Motion Sensing is the only thing in common and thats it. Six Axis is a regular controller, with tilt functionality. Its mostly designed for racing games or flying related games. Six Axis is partialy used in games. If your tired of moving your hand all the time, you have a choice to turn off tilt. With the wiimote you have to move your hands 90% of the time when playing games. If you are not used to playing motion sensing games then thats a problem.



rumble+blatant theft but finally settled lawsuit: I know Sony did not pay that company who made rumble but thats settled. Now, did you now Nintendo 64 already had a rumble add on before there was new rumble controller for the PS1. Sony may have copied that idea mabe but you always blamed Sony, that means your a fanboy of the Xbox or Nintendo. You did not blame the Xbox for having rumble and that they coppied Nintendo. Microsoft payed royalties to the company that rumble, you don't consider that copying don't you. Earlier you said Six Junksis is a ripoff of the Wii, Both controllers were patented, but you still act like a D!CK



ps3 asthetic design taken from spiderman no creativity there spiderman game and movie sucked: You mean the font? Sony owns the movie anyway, and the font is sleek for the PS3. About Spiderman, this doesn't fall in the category of "no creativity just stolen ideas". Spiderman I/II is great but Spiderman III was okay. But don't blame Sony for that, Blame Sam Raimi. He made the movie. If Gears of War sucked, who would you blame for making a *****ty game. Microsoft or Epic?. Also about Spiderman games, it wasn't Sony who made the game. If they did, it would have been way better since its only designed for one console. Activision made the *****ty Spiderman games just like any other game movies.



exploding laptop batteries: It only happened on Dell laptops, not Sony Vaio.(Thats what you get for buying a cheap @ss computer)



I am not a fanboy, I am a gamer who likes all 3 consoles.

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# nice come backGuest 2007-06-06 22:16
Nicely said, NOYS got owned!!

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