Staff cut

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Then shouldn’t we spread the word about it? If that is true, the people need to know.

I'm saying it's not happening. Your friend likely just misunderstood the Yoshi P quote about having difficulty with new hires, due to Japanese people being inexperienced and the language barrier making it hard for them to bring in help from Western applicants.

If staff were being cut, it would have been reported by gaming journalists the world over, especially Jason Schreier. He generally tends to be all over big staff cuts and layoffs in the games industry when they're happening.