Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Pixela]

Imagine you're in charge of XI, you have a limited budget (most of which goes on wages) and Square won't fund above and beyond what you currently get allocated.

What would you do if you wanted to keep it running, given also that the ps2 devkits recently broke?

>move most of the developers off the project for a while to save money on wages
>use that money to fund a new dev kit or dev kit emulator for pc from a 3rd party company
>developers come back when done

I dunno if this is what is happening, and they will never admit it if they are but it possible that is what they are upto.

[Sueno]

My guess would be: with the global recession coming they are trying to keep the devs they have. The more a dev knows; the more they can be shifted to other projects and not get laid off. It keeps them in house so they can be shifted back, and not have a learning curve, if they decide to ramp up another project in the future for XI. Also if they do decide to do a remake; the devs will have the knowledge of the new technology to better transfer what they know about the original to the new game. With the out of control pandemic spending most companies did in the last few years, they are scaling back and laying off the people they can do without. If you were one of these devs you would want the opportunity to learn more and make yourself more valuable to the company; instead of polishing off your resume.