"We don't think we can find better people regardless of where we look. "Basically we have really talented people in Guildford, irreplaceable people we really need, and they've been very successful working on some the areas we feel are really pertinent," he explained. has been working on some chunks of the game that the studio feels are better suited to its talents. Nilsson suggested that the current team at Ghost U.K. It was a decision of "where people would go," he explained, noting that next year's Need for Speed is in development at both studios. and Gothenburg offices made it necessary to pause development.
Nilsson said that a restructuring across both the U.K. "If you invest it smartly, time will ultimately help you create a better game."
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Nilsson told Polygon that the 2015 Need For Speed game is the same one that was halted - it had been in its early planning stages - but the layoffs weren't the full reason why. In January, Polygon's sources confirmed the latter studio had been hit with a round of layoffs that resulted in a new Need for Speed title being put on hold. Ghost Games operates within two studios, one in Gothenburg, Sweden - formerly EA Gothenburg - and in the U.K. We get to work towards that level of innovations that we think our fans are justified in getting." "You could just throw a lot of people on and maybe have some kind of tests for people to play, but with longer time we can reach a place where we feel better about where the game is," he explained. And time, if you invest it smartly, will ultimately help you create a better game. "I feel that we need to get a lot of innovation and ultimately a lot of quality into our titles. "It all comes back to the genre, all of the racing genre," Nilsson told Polygon. For the first year since 2002, the franchise wouldn't publish a new title, instead focusing on building a better experience for its next game slated to drop in 2015. The morning after the investor call during which EA CEO Andrew Wilson made the announcement, Marcus Nilsson - general manager and executive producer at Need for Speed developer Ghost Games - took to the series' website to elaborate on the decision. Earlier this month, Electronic Arts announced it would not be releasing a Need for Speed racing game this year.