Ex-Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering does not believe recent layoffs across the games industry have been a result of corporate greed. Instead, workers who have lost their jobs should “drive an Uber” or “go to the beach for a year” until employment settles.

Deering was a guest on games writer Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console, where the pair discussed games industry layoffs.

“I don’t think it’s fair to say that the resulting layoffs have been greed,” said Deering. “I always tried to minimise the speed with which we added staff because I always knew there would be a cycle and I didn’t want to end up having the same problems that Sony did in Electronics.”

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    27 days ago

    workers who have lost their jobs should “drive an Uber” or “go to the beach for a year” until employment settles.

    The second part has real “let them eat cake vibes”!

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      27 days ago

      It’s weird, like the whole point of saying “it’s not because of corporate greed” is to rehabilitate their image and not look like soulless ghouls, so then he chases it up with something that makes him sound like a soulless ghoul.

      Money and power really do make people stupid.

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      27 days ago

      Sorry that was taken out of context, the real quote would be: “[…] should drive an Uber over the studio executives or go to the beach for a year to train sharks to attack studio executives”

      Nice praxis, comrade Deering.