Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack has commented on recent industry lay offs as 'staggering' but believes things will pick up, and Ubisoft's coming year will be one of growth with the opening of a new 800 staff strong studio in Toronto, Canada:
Source: GI
“It’s been really a rough year and a half for the industry as a whole. The number of layoffs in the industry has been staggering. As an external developer it’s been tough. I actually don’t know anyone who’s older than us any more. There used to be four or five people I knew of but I feel right now that we’re one of the last of the V8s."
“I’ve talked to a lot of people and I know a lot of people who have gone out of business."
“Where I see some more growth for Silicon Knights in the future is I can see a very strong recruiting campaign that will say ‘come back home to Ontario’. What that means for us [the new studio] is we’re really excited because we’re going to be able to come out, and the industry is going to rebound and grow, and we’ll be one of probably five companies in the world that has any serious business beyond ten years.”
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