Sony cutting back US PS3 division

TWICE: Sony PS3 Division Announces Layoffs

Tokyo — Sony Computer Entertainment today announced personnel cut backs in its North American operation as part of a plan to reorient its PlayStation3 business as a network centric gaming device.
According to published reports, Sony has not released the number of U.S. jobs to be eliminated nor whether there would be cutbacks to follow in Japan. The gaming unit employs about 1,500 people in the United States.
Sony underwent a round of layoffs in April when it let go about 10 percent of its European work force.



I don't consider this to be a "the sky is falling" event, although tying it to a "reorientation" of the Playstation 3 towards greater network centricity sounds like a pretty big red herring thrown to the press.



There's nothing ominous about streamlining your organization, per se (unless you're one of the people who get streamlined!). Truthfully, a big corp like Sony usually has more than enough excess to trim in any one division.



That said, I just found this awesome image via Google image search, and am just itching to use it:



Hat tip to Kotaku for the image.

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