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Tencent is setting up a AAA Studio in NA lead by Scott Warner (former Ubisoft Game Director)

ggx2ac

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More at the link: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-05-18-tencent-is-starting-a-aaa-studio-in-north-america

From the article:
Tencent is setting up a new AAA studio in North America, bringing in veteran developer Scott Warner to lead the operation.

Warner has an impressive track record in AAA: he was design director on Halo 4 at 343 Industries, game director on Battlefield Hardline at EA Visceral, and was most recently game director for Ubisoft in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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You may remember from November last year that Tencent has plans to expand into the US and Europe to target console game players.

Link: https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-tencent-looks-to-leverage-its-nintendo-partnership-in-us-nintendo-wants-3rd-parties-to-make-games-for-women.152266/

And the quote:
Tencent is looking for growth in the US market supposedly due to China's restrictions on video games including curfews on playtime for children:
"What we want is to expand from China, and one target is console game players in the U.S. and Europe," said a Tencent official, who asked not to be identified. "We hope to create console games with Nintendo characters, and learn the essence of making console games from Nintendo engineers."
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Jarod McChicken said:
Important clarification by Zhuge

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Daniel Ahmad on Twitter

“A few errors in some of the articles covering this. Scott Warner (Ex EA/Ubi) is joining @timistudios, an already existing studio under Tencent (and the most famous one). TiMi already has an office in LA. The team most recently hired staff there for the Pokémon collab title...
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Stef said:
Also:
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Stefano Castelli on Twitter

“@ZhugeEX Do you think they (Tencent) may want to stay more in the "AAA" retail market (maybe also developing single-player esperiences)?”
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Soph

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"We hope to create console games with Nintendo characters, and learn the essence of making console games from Nintendo engineers."

What? That's certainly an interesting statement.
 
Oregano

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Soph said:
"We hope to create console games with Nintendo characters, and learn the essence of making console games from Nintendo engineers."

What? That's certainly an interesting statement.
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Tencent is the officially distributor of Switch/Nintendo games in China so it's not that weird, but I doubt the aim for this AAA American studio is to make Switch exclusives.
 
Raide

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Only just setting up? Guess we have another few years till they have something.
 
Soph

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Oregano said:
Tencent is the officially distributor of Switch/Nintendo games in China so it's not that weird, but I doubt the aim for this AAA American studio is to make Switch exclusives.
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The only logical conclusion is that Tencent is opening the studio to make AAA games for Switch where you play in a Call of Duty / Halo like shooter as Birdo shooting eggs to err... romance people aimed at women.
 
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Any Chinese based company is strictly speaking answering to the CCP, so I think it's more than fair to be skeptical of any Chinese company. With that said, Recent hasn't done anything wrong that we know of. Yet.
 
Homura

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Nintendo please don't fall under China's dictatorship like Blizzard.
 
ivan.k

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Warner has an impressive track record in AAA: he was design director on Halo 4 at 343 Industries, game director on Battlefield Hardline at EA Visceral, and was most recently game director for Ubisoft in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Is this a joke? There was nothing impressive in Halo 4 or Hardline. Low tier games in Halo/BF franchises
 
Black_Stride

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Kolx said:
Let's agree to disagree then. Both campaigns were FAR from being amazing, but that's just my opinion.
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Luckily the opinions of one no one are meaningless.
Halo has a high MC and Hardlines campaign was praised while the MP was lacking yet it still managed a 70+ MC.

So this quote is still accurate:

Warner has an impressive track record in AAA: he was design director on Halo 4 at 343 Industries, game director on Battlefield Hardline at EA Visceral, and was most recently game director for Ubisoft in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
iSnakeTK

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Great, more chinese influence in the western world is exactly what we need.
 
kennyamr

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Until their gov stops being as nasty as they are, I would probably never feel comfortable buying anything directly (100%) financed by a Chinese company. Just my personal take.
 
waugh

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So they're going to be working on AAA GaS multiplayer stuff. No interest from me.
 
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