Jason West and Vince Zampella’s next project has been heavily anticipated since the pair was ousted from Infinity Ward. However, EA indicates that Respawn’s first game is much further from completion than Insomniac’s unnanounced multiplatform game for EA.
The thing everybody needs to remember is they were starting at absolute zero,” said EA Partners head David DeMartini. “This is two guys who really know what they’re doing having to go find a place for the team, buy chairs and desks and furniture, find new technology from the ground up, and pull a team together. I need to get HR people and contracts. There are all kinds of things and administration that need to take place. Amongst all that administration they’ve pulled together the core of a fantastic team and they’re starting to work on a whole bunch of ideas to try and find what is going to be the one right idea for us.”
“It’s like the Pope coming from the group of cardinals,” DeMartini added. “You just wait for the smoke to come up and they share with you. We’re sitting there waiting for the smoke to come up and when it does we’ll call you.”
While some saw the signing of the Call of Duty creators as a way of sticking it to rival Activision, DeMartini sees things differently. “The Activision part, we win some, they win some. It goes back and forth. I don’t see it as some big competition,” said DeMartini. “Sure, I want EA to be the most successful, but I don’t want Activision to fail. It’s like going to a bad movie. Sometimes movies are so bad you don’t got to any movies for a while because you’re burned by whoever made that last movie. I don’t want consumers spending money and playing bad games. I want them to play good games.”
“I want EA to be the most successful and that’s my singular mission in life. But whether it’s THQ or Activision, I don’t want them putting out bad product either because it’s just bad for the industry,” he added.
Source: Eurogamer
