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Stellar Blade Developer Gifts All Workers A PS5 Pro To "Encourage Talent"

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Jan 6, 2025

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Stellar Blade developer Shift Up just gifted all of its employees a PS5 Pro.
The studio's just over 300 employees also received a monetary bonus.
This comes after Stellar Blade, the studio's first console game, launched to great success in 2024.

Shift Up, the studio behind 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stellar Blade, says it has started the new year by giving all of its workers a bonus. This includes 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5 Pros for all of its employees, alongside a monetary bonus totalling one million yen (around ꧒$32,000).

This comes after Shift Up saw great success in 2023 with the release of Stellar Blade, exclusively on PS5. It was the first console game release for the studio and was met with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:largely positive reviews, strong sales, and a co꧅uple of nominations at The Game Awards.

Stellar Blade Devs Gifted PS5 Pros

Shift Up enters the new year with a bonus for all of its employees

As spotted by , South Korean news outlet reported on this bonus earlier today. The 💦bonus came as part of the studio's "Shift Up Rise Up" ceremony, held for its staff. As the outlet reports, the last employee count at Shift Up was 311 - so that's a lot of PS5 Pros if most, if not all, employees were getting one.

The gift does make a lot of sense - Stellar Blade is🦩 one of the game🐽s that has been optimised for PS5 Pro so far.

A representative from Shift Up commented on the bonuses, saying, "The plus and bonus𒆙 payments are for the purpose of encouraging talent".

It makes a nice change from the u🍌sual stories we hear from the🦩 industry, in which even a game's success can lead to layoffs or even full studio closures. We saw this time and time again throughout 2024, with industry giants like Sony and Microsoft continuously laying off developers across their various studios.

Right now, Stellar Blade is only available on PS5, although a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网ཧ:PC port is coming at some point this year. There's been no word at all on an Xbox port, so either a deal with Sony is getting in the way of that, or the team doesn't want to deal with the Xbox Series S, since other 𒅌developers are struggling to get their games on there now.