Well said.

True.

Of course it would have ended like this. Sony has been just marketing, smoke and mirrors for the last 3 years with the PS4. At least some good games are coming in a couple of months.
Yes, magazines and websites forget that they are corporations, blinded by the stupid console war, aiming to get more and more clicks from the fanboys. I’m just wondering what the guys at Santa Monica and SCE Liverpool are thinking about this move, or the thousand guys that worked at the Bravia and Vaio departments.

Sony looking through the remains so they can fire them three years later like Studio Liverpool, Zipper Interactive, Incog inc, Most of Evolution studios, half of San Diego and the programming team of Uncharted 4. #4ThePlayers™!

If there’s something I’ve learned since the 2013 e3, Sony has a knack for taking advantage of the situation to makes themselves good in the public eye. Making this a public event, makes it quite obvious (imo) that this is nothing more than a PR strategy, and yet people will applaud Sony as if they’re doing this for the sake of the people that have been affected.

As if that wasn’t enough, sites like GB quickly run to write (sometime just copy + paste) articles about how marvelous Sony is for what they’re doing, but at the same time forgetting that Sony is still a corporation. A corporation, mind you, that had to sell divisions, buildings and ultimately fire many people to bring themselves back from the brink of the impending bankruptcy. Then there’s the question of how many people will they actually hire and how many of those won’t be fired again?

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/125961-sony-fires-10000-loses-6-4-billion-and-cuts-down-on-tvs-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

Sony actually sank $100M into that SSM new IP, but the team involved in making it couldn’t make the game work, so it had to be canceled and that’s why those 50 people were let go.
Liverpool had been in the red for a while.

Right now Sony’s studios are expanding, which is a fact if you look at their websites, so it makes sense for Sony to have an event when experienced developers will likely need new jobs.
The funny thing here is that Microsoft have been acting like Fable Legends was going to release, that development was going well and their studio didn’t even know this was going to happen, that’s just about the worse tactics a business could use.
Phil Spencer evidently decided to cancel this game, without discussing it with the studio, plus he’s gotten rid of 7 other studios, so 8 in total.
Lionhead supposedly had another IP in development too, which has also presumably been canceled.

The biggest pigs here are those people who didn’t even have the decency to tell the studio that their game was canceled before letting the world know and also that they were out of a job.
That’s truly shameless.