Activision: Infinity Ward Still ‘One of the Most Talented Developers In The World’

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg still believes that Infinity Ward is  ‘One of the Most Talented Developers in the World’ despite those major problems the developer had earlier this year.

Speaking with IndustryGamers, Hirshberg reassured that Infinity Ward remains an incredibly talented developer and is still very much a part of the Call of Duty world along with Treyarch and Sledgehammer, “I will say that the Infinity Ward that I’m meeting with today is one of the most talented developers in the world,”

“There’s still a lot of talent and a lot of vision inside that studio, and if I had just woken up from a coma and never read a press release about Infinity Ward and just gone to my meetings with them, I would have walked out and said, ‘those guys are the real deal’.”

He also commented about Treyarch’s tremendous success on it’s recent addition to the CoD franchise Call Of Duty: Black Ops, “Treyarch is of course going to remain a centerpiece of our efforts on Call of Duty, and they have been. From the beginning, they’ve been contributing. I think that they’ve broke through to another level with this game. I think that they really just put their head down, tuned out the noise, and got to a pretty elite level in terms of the game that they’ve delivered here. They will, of course, figure prominently into our future plans and management of the franchise,”

Nonetheless, Hirshberg was found pretty confident about the new developer Sledgehammer Games in what they can do with the franchise, “Sledgehammer, with Glen Schofield and their performance in Dead Space and what they’ve done in the past, I’ve nothing but high hopes for their contributions.”

He concluded saying, “We’ve got an unprecedented level of talent contributing to this franchise.”