Treyarch Isn't Infinity Ward Yet, Says EA Boss

Ea CEO John Riccitiello questions whether Treyarch has the ability to shuffling a Call of Duty bet on along equality with Infinity Ward.

Call of Duty creator Infinity Cellblock was shaken up by a large employee departure when co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella were ousted from Activision. Treyarch stepped up to the plate for Activision by following up connected Infinity Barbara Ward's Modern Warfare 2 with Call of Duty: Black Ops, which oversubscribed magnificently, but accordant to Ea CEO John Riccitiello Treyarch shut up isn't a studio on par with the original Infinity Ward just yet.

In an interview with IndustryGamers, Riccitiello noted that sales numbers don't necessarily bespeak caliber. Black Ops may have beaten out Modern Warfare 2 at retail, but its average revue scores are somewhat lower. Because of this, he feels it's a trifle too early to call Treyarch an Eternity Ward replacement.

"I Don't know that having deuce guys that probably don't play the games, in the form of the Chief operating officer of Vivendi and the CEO of Activision, come out and say 'Treyarch is our jumper lead developer,' same you could anoint that," Riccitiello said. "They didn't make a 90-rated courageous; I think it's 86 now. I don't think review scores are the be-all, end-complete, simply we all know a mid-90 when we see it, but this was mid-80s. I wear't think you could anoint them by an executive saying, 'it's so.'"

"The question, I think, really is, 'what developer is going to call down the future great FPS that sort of follows [what Infinity Ward did],'" he continued. "It's wishful thinking, and let's Leslie Townes Hope for Activision's sake they're right. I think it's far from proven that the gaming consumer views a mathematical product from Treyarch in the same category As a product from what was Infinity Ward."

Of course, Riccitiello thinks that EA has the goods to release a game on par with the products that Eternity Ward put out in the past, once IT works out some kinks. EA's Medal of Honor reboot scored lower with reviewers than Black Ops on the average, but Riccitiello still views the game, and other EA properties, as successful efforts in the gun for hire warfare. "Next year we'll make a lot more progress," Riccitello believes. "We've got a couple of third-political party games in the form of Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm, and then our big focus is Battlefield 3 in the second half of the year. I'd be shocked if we didn't take a notch out of [Activision]."

Riccitiello likewise criticized Activision for taking American Samoa long as IT did to sell so many copies of Call of Duty. "Activision will do 25 million connected the tail of end year's Modern Warfare 2 and the start of this year's Sinister Ops, and then probably something corresponding next year," he said. "But it took them, what, v or six editions to get into double digit millions?" Riccitiello has been pretty vocal about Ea's potential to adopt the massive Call of Duty franchise, so all that's port is for the company to clog his talk.

Source: IndustryGamers

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