Sony to close part of its plant in Liverpool. The resident ontwikkelstudio, responsible for the Wipeout games, is closed. Other departments, for financial lwa n and quality assurance, remain open.
Sony has told website Eurogamer confirmed that the company ontwikkelstudio in Liverpool from closing. The studio, which was created in 1984, is best known for the futuristic Wipeout racing games. Sony bought the studio, which was then known as Psygnosis in 1993.
The studio produced since then a new version of the racing game with the introduction of each new incarnation of the PlayStation, with the PS Vita game Wipeout 2048 as most recent. The publisher explained to Eurogamer that the development branch of the branch in Liverpool closed is because the company are investments wants to focus on other studios that are currently working on exciting new projects’.
The consolebouwer let also know that only the development department is closed. Sony wants the staff of the studio as much as possible elsewhere in the company to work, but that forced redundancies, nevertheless, inevitable. In the establishment in Liverpool are further divisions established for quality assurance, the translation of games, and a finance department. These departments remain unchanged.
Wipeout 2048 on the PS Vita