Infamous Developer Sucker Punch Experiences Layoffs

That's a shame. I wasn't big on Infamous 2, but the first game was great. And Second Son really surprised me. It's easily one of the best games to have come out for this generation.

Good developers just keep shrinking and dying. All we'll have left soon is puzzle games on our phones.

that sucks.

Infamous was great. Who the heck thinks it was rushed? The game was super polished.

I don't think it is because they are in financial trouble. Infamous (the last one) was a successful game.

Sony first party continues to get weaker.

I think Second Son was a little bit rushed. It wasn't a bad game, and Delsin was a million times better than Cole, but it didn't feel like an improvement on the previous games.

It honestly wasn't that great. Way too Short and story was too cliché. Beat at twice (Good/Bad) in a mere 3 days and has absolutely no replay value after the second time. It did satisfy me at the time however but I wished there was a lot more.

Did not disappoint me as much as Watch Dogs though.

Second son was a great game and Gamespots PC gaming trollls love to bash it. Sit down you cheap pirating nobodies who are not really gamers, just lurk media websites all day.

Second son was horrible and it flopped so this doesn't surprise me at all.Even after all the hype sony put behind it counldn't save that game

Ramp up for production, scale back after release. Welcome to the gaming industry folks.

Sad to see when people lose their job but, isn't' this pretty much standard? Hire a bunch of people to work on a new game. Release the game. Support the game with patches for awhile. Lay off surplus staff. Hire new temporary staff when it's time to start making another game.

Sucks to hear this and bummed for the folks at Sucker Punch that got laid off, But to the folks at Sucker Punch, kudos for making a good game, I am enjoying it more than the previous ones.

I'm sure the xbots will take this and make some big thing about sony and it's financial situation lol. Normal thing for almost any industry after big projects are done you layoff or worse let go of non essential employees until the next game/project.

People find some way to blame sony for sucker punch layoffs. This is the gaming industry after iss and first light are done theirs no point in keeping a ton of animators and artists with no project to work on. As a person starting out in the gaming industry that's what happens that's why you see more and more indie studios now. People get sick off layoffs and link up and start their own thing. Being a low totem pole development team member for a big game is like working for a higher pay temp or contractor eventually it expires but that is some great experience on a resume.