In the last stretch of 2023, it kept its foot on the accelerator of layoffs in the video game sector. If a few weeks ago the forecast was that the year would end with just over 9 thousand fewer jobs, now, with more updated data in hand, the forecasts indicate that there have been 10 thousand layoffs. These are only the most widespread cases since, for example, the 15 people affected by the closure of the Spanish studio Lince Works are not included.
Last layoffs of the year
Over the course of the year, the video game layoffs page counted known layoffs in a long trickle that ends, two days before the end of the year, with 60 layoffs at Lion Games on December 26 and 13 at publisher Versus Evil on December 22nd. .
The wrap.games page (which takes its name from Wrap it up by The Games Award) paints a rather stark picture of the situation in the sector, with the same number of layoffs, and highlights the companies that have laid off more people (Hasbro 1,900 people; Unity, 1,165; Electronic Arts, 1,130; ByteDance, 1,000; Embracer Group, 954; Epic Games, 830 and Amazon, 715) and compares it with the 184,000 million dollars (166,125 million euros) in revenues of the sector, a 0, 6% more than last year.
Salary of some CEOs in 2020
Among the interesting information collected by wrap.games there is also the salary in 2020 of the general managers of some companies in the sector, such as Bobby Kotick, who now leaves Activision Blizzard and earned 154.6 million dollars three years ago (almost 140 million of Euro ); Andrew Wilson, of Electronic Arts, who then had a salary of 34.7 million dollars (31.3 million euros); Frank Gibeau, of Zynga (32 million dollars, almost 29 million euros) or John Riccitiello, of Unity, who earned 22 million dollars (19.9 million euros).
2023-12-29 12:31:00
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