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The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024
Video Gaming
Jan 23, 2024
Written By Matthew Ball
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For those who worked in gaming, last year was brutal. A record 10,500 game
developers, artists, testers, and other gaming employees were laid off in
2023, topping the prior record holder, 2022, which saw 8,500 in job losses.
Unfortunately, 2024 has seen 3,950 in cuts in only 22 days 5,850 in cuts
after only 25 days.
These layoffs went deep, too. Niantic cut roughly one in four employees (and
cancelled several titles), Epic Games cut 16% of its staff (and divested
several percentage points more), Unity laid off 15% last year (and then
another 25% in January 2024), Riot dropped 11%, CD Projekt Red shed 10%,
while Microsoft gaming lost 8.6% and Bungie 8%, with EA at 6% (Ubisoft’s
precise numbers are not known). Amazon laid off more than a thousand
employees across its various gaming divisions, including Twitch; As Embracer
continues its widely-predicted implosion, trying to summarize which groups
and people have and haven’t been laid off is futile. These figures are
limited, too, as they don’t count venture-backed startups, nor the many
gaming journalists laid off at The Washington Post, Kotaku, Inverse,
Waypoint, etc., outlets that by rights should benefit from gaming’s
ascendency. There are other drawbacks to just focusing on layoffs. In Q4
2023, ByteDance announced it would sell and shut down the entirety of its
gaming division — even though it had become one of the most powerful,
popular, and revenue generating companies in the world (crossing $100B in
annual revenue in mid-2023). The company essentially shut down its Pico VR/MR
division, too, even as Apple geared up.
对于从事游戏产业的人来说，去年是残酷的一年。 2023 年，有 10,500 名游戏开发人员
、美工、测试人员和其他游戏员工被解雇，创下历史纪录，超过了之前的记录保持者
2022 年的 8,500 人。 不幸的是，2024 年仅 22 天就削减了 3,950 人，仅 25 天就削
减了 5,850 人。
这些裁员也很严重。 Niantic 裁减了大约四分之一的员工（并取消了几款游戏），Epic
Games 裁减了16% 的员工（并进一步裁撤了几个百分点），Unity 去年裁掉了15%（然后
在2024 年1月又裁掉了25%），Riot下跌 11%，CD Projekt Red 下跌 10%，微软游戏下
跌 8.6%，Bungie 下跌 8%，EA 下跌 6%（育碧的具体数字未知）。 亚马逊解雇了包括
Twitch 在内的各个游戏部门的 1,000 多名员工； 随着拥抱者继续其广泛预测的内爆，
试图总结哪些群体和人员已经被解雇和没有被解雇是徒劳无功的。 这些数字也很有限，
因为它们没有计算风险投资支持的新创公司，也没有计算《华盛顿邮报》、Kotaku、
Inverse、Waypoint 等机构解雇的许多游戏记者，而这些媒体理应从游戏的崛起中受益
。 只关注裁员还有其他缺点。 2023 年第四季度，字节跳动宣布将出售并关闭整个游戏
部门，尽管该部门已成为世界上最强大、最受欢迎和创收的公司之一（2023 年中期年收
入将超过 100B 美元） ） 。 尽管苹果已经做好了准备，但该公司实际上也关闭了
Pico VR/MR 部门。