Vivendi Says Treyarch "Done Better" and IW Restructured
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Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has bested series creator Infinity Ward, IGN reports Activision parent company Vivendi declared last week. IW will get to fire back, though, as it has finished restructing after its major staffing losses this year.
"The Treyarch studio, which made this year's game, has done better than what the Infinity Ward studio could achieve a year ago," said CEO Jean-Bernard Levy at the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference on Friday. He's certainly right sales-wise, as Cod Blops broke the entertainment industry-wide launch day and five-day sales records set by Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year. Cold Blops sold-through over $650 million in five days after launching on November 9. <!--more-->
Levy also reveals that "We have reconstructed Infinity Ward," adding that the company is "very happy" with the result. IW suffered a mass exodus of staff after Activision fired co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in March for allegedly trying to "steal" the studio and using its resources for personal benefit. Around thirty-five had left as of May, with a number joining West and Zampella at their new studio Respawn Entertainment.
Infinity Ward will head back down the Cod mine, joining Treyarch and fledging studio Sledgehammer Games. "We believe this set up of studios working on Call of Duty has demonstrated it can do very well," Levy opined. It's been rumoured, bizarrely, that Sledgehammer might be working on an instalment starring space marines.
So what are your thoughts on this? Did Treyarch really do better because of the game they made or is it because of the massive sales? There is no denying that dedicated servers helped on the PC side. Also, there is no doubt all the bugs and performance problems that have been happening since release.
Will the next IW game be the blockbusters of the past or has there been enough changes that IW will not be the same studio it was? Will console sales make that an invalid point? Could it be that Treyarch and IW are enough of the same now that there is no difference between the two developers?
Finally, what about CoD in Space? Is it boldly going where no fps has successfully* gone before or is it lost in space?
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*Yeah, I know there have been successful futuristic FPS games, but I wanted to use the line
Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has bested series creator Infinity Ward, IGN reports Activision parent company Vivendi declared last week. IW will get to fire back, though, as it has finished restructing after its major staffing losses this year.
"The Treyarch studio, which made this year's game, has done better than what the Infinity Ward studio could achieve a year ago," said CEO Jean-Bernard Levy at the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference on Friday. He's certainly right sales-wise, as Cod Blops broke the entertainment industry-wide launch day and five-day sales records set by Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year. Cold Blops sold-through over $650 million in five days after launching on November 9. <!--more-->
Levy also reveals that "We have reconstructed Infinity Ward," adding that the company is "very happy" with the result. IW suffered a mass exodus of staff after Activision fired co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in March for allegedly trying to "steal" the studio and using its resources for personal benefit. Around thirty-five had left as of May, with a number joining West and Zampella at their new studio Respawn Entertainment.
Infinity Ward will head back down the Cod mine, joining Treyarch and fledging studio Sledgehammer Games. "We believe this set up of studios working on Call of Duty has demonstrated it can do very well," Levy opined. It's been rumoured, bizarrely, that Sledgehammer might be working on an instalment starring space marines.
So what are your thoughts on this? Did Treyarch really do better because of the game they made or is it because of the massive sales? There is no denying that dedicated servers helped on the PC side. Also, there is no doubt all the bugs and performance problems that have been happening since release.
Will the next IW game be the blockbusters of the past or has there been enough changes that IW will not be the same studio it was? Will console sales make that an invalid point? Could it be that Treyarch and IW are enough of the same now that there is no difference between the two developers?
Finally, what about CoD in Space? Is it boldly going where no fps has successfully* gone before or is it lost in space?
Source
*Yeah, I know there have been successful futuristic FPS games, but I wanted to use the line
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