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crisis. "Sudden and rapid changes in the global economic environment" will force Sony to lay off 8,000 of its 160,000 jobs by April 2010. Reuters reports that another 8,000 more will fired from "more temporary and contract staff."

"To stay competitive in the accelerating global network environment, we will always carefully review and make structural changes, if necessary, in order to further expand and strengthen the PlayStation business," SCE said to GamesIndustry.biz.

Sony Computer Entertainment (responsible for PlayStation manufacturing and game development) is going to be involved in the upcoming review.

Many people were affected by the recent worldwide economic