Atari - Ghostbusters to launch in June 2009
Atari - Mizuguchi confirms new QJ music title for Wii
Atari - Phil takes Ready 2 Rumble and Demigod
June 18th, 2008 @ 16:39
Speaking at the William Blair & Company’s 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference EA’s John Riccitiello has confirmed that the Vancouer team responsible for the Need for Speed franchise has been split and put onto longer game cycles after “torturing” at the hands of game-per-year schedules.
“Last summer we added head count and split the team in two, so now there are two teams on a 24 month cycle. And this is sort of their first 16 and-a-half month game…Because we didn’t do it far enough ago to give us a full two year dev cycle,” he said.
“We were torturing a very talented group of people up in Vancouver, which makes it harder to be as innovative every year. So, I think we are going to get better from here.
“I’m confident that Undercover is a much better game than Pro Street, and I expect that from this point forward they will do a lot better.”
Pro Street, he admitted, was a bit bollocks.
“I thought it was an okay game, in terms of gameplay. It’s not good. But who wanted Pro Street? It was a sort of made up, put numbers on the side of your car and pretend to drive your Ferrari where? Or your Porsche where?”
Thanks, GamesIndustry.
Del.icio.us | Digg | Share on Facebook
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
My other half bought Prostate for me as a christmas pressie, so I had to play it with an enthusiastic look on my face. Eesh.
It wasn’t horribly dreadful but talk about a niche game. No one wanted something with such a limited scope.
So to summarise, Team Vancouver - FFS look at Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit II and do something like that, set in the damned day time, without all that turd-polishing customisation rubbish.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
i picked it up from amazon for 9 squid, going to trade it in to gamestation/game/cex for something else this weekend if i get a chance
the dj guy needs a shoeing
June 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I’d agree on that. I switched all the in-game music off n’all.