Sony has initiated one other spherical of PlayStation layoffs, if a put up by a former worker is something to go by. It’s unclear if the layoffs are associated to the mass cancellations of stay service tasks as the worker in query is a platform engineer who appears to have labored on the {hardware} aspect, together with the unannounced PS6.
PlayStation layoffs apparently began in February 2025
In line with Oscar Diaz, who labored as a senior design technologist at PlayStation, “most” of his staff was laid off. Diaz, who goes as Ryosuke on social media, was one of many staff let go. Nonetheless, he didn’t say how huge his staff was or what number of roles had been eradicated.
Curiously, Diaz’s posts counsel that he contributed to the PS6. “It was a dream to get to work with Sony on the platform I’d grown up taking part in for the reason that PS1 and contribute to the PS5, Portal, PSVR2, PS App, and future consoles,” he wrote on a number of platforms together with X.
On the time of this writing, there’s been no assertion on the layoffs from Sony and we haven’t noticed every other posts from ex staff. Though layoffs had been anticipated as a consequence of undertaking cancellations, it appears like non-dev roles may additionally be on the chopping block.
