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Amazon’s next CEO is committed to making video gamesHe acknowledges they “haven’t consistently succeeded”
He acknowledges they “haven’t consistently succeeded”
Amazon Game Studios haven’t been what you’d call a success story so far, but the company’s next CEO says he believes they eventually will be if they stick to it. Amazon proper announced yesterday that Jeff Bezos isstepping down as CEO(or sideways, maybe, to become executive chair), but it looks like that won’t immediately change the company’s plans for their game studio. Incoming CEO Andy Jassy wants to keep at it.
“Though we haven’t consistently succeeded yet in AGS, I believe we will if we hang in there,” he also said.
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“Haven’t consistently succeeded” is a very kind way of saying the studio has yet to launch a well-received game, havingcancelled Breakawayin 2018,killing Crucible’s short-lived launch last year, anddelaying their MMONew Worldto sometime this spring. They’ve reportedly cancelled other unannounced projects as well.
As for his own influence, Frazzini says “we’ve learned and improved a lot along the way, myself included, and we will continue to do so,” and that “making great games is hard, and we’re not going to get everything right.”
The larger context here is that earlier this week the other tech giant attempting to break into game development threw in the towel. Google announced they would beshutting down both Stadia game development studiosto focus on partnerships with external studios for the Stadia subscription library.
