Saber Interactive's chief creative officer, Tim Willits, has argued that the wave of layoffs sweeping the games industry stems largely from studios over-specialising, building large teams focused on a single title rather than working across multiple projects. He suggested that studios with a couple of hundred employees dedicated to just one game are particularly vulnerable, since they lack the flexibility to redeploy staff when a project ends or underperforms. His comments add a developer's perspective to the ongoing debate about why job cuts have continued despite the industry's broader growth.

Willits, a veteran of id Software before joining Saber, pointed to Saber's own model of running multiple projects and teams simultaneously as a more resilient approach compared to single-game studios. His remarks come amid a prolonged period of layoffs across the games industry, which has seen thousands of job losses at major publishers and studios in recent years despite strong revenues, prompting many in the industry to debate the underlying structural causes beyond simple cost-cutting.