Sony-owned studio Sucker Punch Productions is dropping 24 staff in one other spherical of layoffs within the video games business. The studio is behind Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei, two first-party PlayStation titles which have been critical and commercial hits.
An Aftermath report claims 24 Sucker Punch employees have misplaced their jobs. The studio is estimated to have between 190 and 230 employees, relying on the supply, which means Sucker Punch has misplaced a minimum of 10% of its staff.
“After rigorously observing the challenges available in the market and reviewing the workforce wants for our subsequent venture, we’ve determined to make some staffing reductions,” an e mail from studio management quoted by Aftermath learn. “A number of positions throughout Sucker Punch shall be eradicated because of this.”
“We all know it is a lot to absorb, and we need to guarantee you that we didn’t make this choice flippantly. We’ve given this a whole lot of consideration and labored to help our affected colleagues throughout this transition in addition to we will,” the e-mail continued, including: “Subsequent week we are going to go into extra particulars concerning the future.”
For the previous decade, Sucker Punch has labored on its two open-world samurai journey video games, each standout successes in Sony’s first-party slate. As of 2022, Ghost of Tsushima had offered over 8 million lifetime copies, whereas Ghost of Yotei was reported to be Sony’s best-selling title on the PS5 as of June 2026.
The studio’s newest launch was the critically acclaimed Echoes of Sekigahara expansion for Ghost of Yotei, which introduced again the primary sport’s protagonist, Jin Sakai.
Previous to Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch developed the Sly Cooper and Notorious sequence. This isn’t the primary time the studio has undergone layoffs after a commercially profitable launch; an unspecified number of layoffs occurred in 2014 following the launch of Notorious Second Son, the identical month the enlargement First Gentle was launched.