Amazon has introduced plans to put off one other 180 workers from its video video games division.
The corporate confirmed the division’s second spherical of cuts this yr after Aftermath reported that it was closing its Crown Twitch channel and its Recreation Development workforce as half of a bigger aim of refocusing its efforts round Prime Gaming.
“We’ve listened to our prospects and we all know delivering free video games each month is what they need most, so we’re refining our Prime profit to extend our focus there,” Amazon Video games VP Christoph Hartmann stated in an e-mail to employees.
“With these modifications in our enterprise method come modifications to our resourcing, ensuing within the elimination of simply over 180 roles.
“I do know that is troublesome information and that the influence will probably be felt extensively. It by no means feels good to say goodbye to colleagues. This isn’t a choice the management workforce got here to shortly; it was the results of in depth issues and street mapping for our future.
“We’re pleased with the work the groups have been doing, pushing into new areas with weekly content material on Crown Channel, and discovering extra methods to assist publishers attain new audiences with Recreation Development,” he continued.
“However after additional analysis of our companies, it grew to become clear that we want focus our assets and efforts to ship nice video games to gamers now and sooner or later.”
The newest spherical of cuts at Amazon’s video games division observe 100 introduced in April, which had been unfold throughout its Recreation Development group, its San Diego improvement studio, and Prime Gaming.
Job losses throughout the video games business have been widespread in 2023. Corporations impacted by layoffs this yr embody Xbox Recreation Studios, Epic Video games, Sony Interactive Leisure, CD Projekt, Unity, Ubisoft, Riot Video games, Blizzard, Crystal Dynamics, BioWare, Putting Distance, Team17, Frontier Developments, Telltale Video games and Digital Extremes.
