Game developer, publisher and distributor Electronic Arts on Thursday said that it had let employees go “in Los Angeles, Montreal as well as some smaller locations” this week.

President of EA Labels Frank Gibeau said in a statement posted on EA’s website that the layoffs come as part of a transition for the company’s creative teams.

Gibeau said that “a massive leap in technology, creativity and fun” for gamers, signaled by the recent release of Sony’s Playstation 4 and other console transitions, and the emergence of mobile platforms for gameplay, has meant that EA has redeployed many of its employees to work on high-growth platforms.

“But when it is not possible to redeploy a team, we soften the tough decisions with assistance,” Gibeau said, adding, “These are good people and we have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease their transition to a new job.”

He did not disclose the number of people let go.

The company responded to social media rumours that it the EA Montreal/Visceral Studio was completely shutting down by telling gaming industry publication Gamasutra, “EA Montreal is a key development studio where our long-term plan is to sharpen our teams’ focus on console and mobile games.”

EA talked change last week as well, when the company’s CFO Blake Jorgensen at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco said that console generation transitions can be “bumpy,” according to a report from Polygon.

He added that the company plans for between 10 and 15 titles for the next-gen console transition.

EA Montreal is developing Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, Fuse, and The Sims 3 University Life, all slated for a March release.

“All the trend lines are converging to reward the creative and financial investments we have made in mobile and console technology.  We have never been more ready or more excited about what comes next,” Gibeau concluded in his statement Thursday.