Layoffs at Sucker Punch, Despite Ghost Of Yotei's $400m Year-1 Revenue

It was recently reported that Ghost of Yōtei managed to earn over $400 million in revenue in its launch year, coming in just 3% behind Ghost of Tsushima in terms of launch-aligned revenue. Despite this success, however, Ghost of Yōtei's developer, Sucker Punch, has just reportedly suffered a wave of layoffs, according to a recent report by Aftermath, who published an internal email shared with the publication by an employee at the studio. The layoffs at Sucker Punch will result in 26 employees losing their jobs.

After carefully observing the challenges in the market and reviewing the team needs for our next project, we've decided to make some staffing reductions. Several positions across Sucker Punch will be eliminated as a result. We know this is a lot to take in, and we want to assure you that we did not make this decision lightly. We have given this a lot of attention and worked to support our affected colleagues during this transition as well as we can. … There's no getting around that this is a hard day. Next week we will go into more details about the future.

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