Layoffs suck. Especially when you don't expect them to happen, as the fortune cookie is meant to show. Chances are, in our lifetimes, we'll all be subject to at least one layoff scare. Joystiq got it right -- Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is pulling an Office Space (complete with John McGinley). The number of layoffs is still up in the air, but it's rumored to be around 160. That's a lot of people (nearly 10% of SCEE's workforce). The reasoning is to streamline communications and reduce costs. Fair enough, but there's always two sides to the coin.This is no time to point fingers and giggle, fanboys of competing consoles. This has nothing to do with flamebait, flamewar, PS3 sales, or whatever. The facts are these: the company has dropped over $1 billion over the last year. That sucks. It is a sad day, but one that every company falls into at some point.
[also available at Joystiq]
