Feb 04, 2021 14:00:00

Amazon's next CEO Andy Jassy shows his intention to continue the game development business

Andy Jassy, who is reported to take over Amazon's CEO from Jeff Bezos, has sent employees a message to keep Amazon's game development division, Amazon Game Studios, which has been discontinued, without closing it. Shown in.

Amazon Isn't Walking Away From Video Games, New CEO Promises
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/02/amazon-game-studios-new-ceo/

In 2016, Amazon Game Studios announced the development of three games, Breakaway, Crucible, and New World . However, the development of Breakaway was discontinued on March 31, 2018. Crucible was released in May 2020, but it was announced that development would be discontinued in October 2020 . In addition, New World was scheduled to be released in 2020, but the release date remains undecided even at the time of article creation due to repeated postponement of the release.

Also, on January 29, 2021, Mike Frasini, vice president of Amazon Game Studios by Bloomberg , an economic media, lacked knowledge of games, and Amazon's in-house culture is suitable for game development. It has been pointed out that the failure was the cause of Amazon Game Studios' failure.

Why did Amazon's game development department 'Amazon Game Studios', which continues to be discontinued, fail? --GIGAZINE

In addition, on February 1, 2021, Google announced that it would close the internal department that develops games dedicated to its own cloud gaming service '

Google Stadia ', raising concerns that Amazon Game Studios will also be closed. Was there.

Google closes Stadia's exclusive game development department, Stadia itself will continue-GIGAZINE

In the meantime, Jasie told employees, 'Some businesses will succeed in the first year, others will take years to succeed. Amazon Game Studios hasn't succeeded yet, but we I believe that if we continue to focus on game development, we will succeed someday. '

Also, Mr. Frasini, who was pointed out lack of knowledge, sent a message to employees about Amazon's internal culture and his lack of knowledge that he had to write about 6 pages of documents each time to approve major decisions. 'This kind of environment lacks fairness to game developers and is completely unacceptable,' he promises to improve.

In addition, Amazon Game Studios announced the development of a game set in the world of 'Lord of the Rings' in July 2019, and it can be expected that the game will be released from Amazon Game Studios in the future. I will.

Amazon is developing an online game set in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'-GIGAZINE