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迪士尼互动工作室总经理Graham Hopper离职

发布时间:2010-11-23 11:53:12 Tags:,,,

日前,迪士尼电子游戏主管格雷厄姆·霍普(Graham Hopper)向同事宣布离职,告别自己运营了8年之久的部门。

迪士尼方面还没有公布原因,不过从社交、手机游戏与掌机、PC游戏并驾齐驱,整个电子游戏行业格局正发生巨变的形势来看,游戏高管的人事变动实在不足为奇。

Graham Hopper

Graham Hopper

霍普原先是迪士尼互动工作室(Disney Interactive Studios)总经理,见证了该工作室近年来的重大投资和许多游戏的发行历程,主导了即将在圣诞期间发行的电子游戏《Tron Evolution》的开发工作。在霍普上任以前,迪士尼对进军电子游戏行业并无多大把握。

在过去几年中,霍普的目标是让迪士尼在电子游戏领域的营收和投入三倍增长,主持成立了一系列的内部游戏工作室,出产了大量的游戏作品。但迪士尼的游戏业务最近却发生了许多变化,先是以3300万美元左右收购了iPhone音乐游戏开发商Tapulous工作室,又斥资7.6亿美元将社交游戏开发商Playdom收编,出击Facebook和MySpace平台上的社交游戏领域。后来又任命Playdom董事长约翰·普莱曾(John Pleasants)为迪士尼互动传媒集团(Disney Interactive Media Group)的联合总裁之一,监管迪士尼所收购的业务。

今年九月霍普的前任领导史蒂芬·沃兹沃思(Steven Wadsworth)离职后,普莱曾升格成了霍普的顶头上司,现在又得接替霍普的职位,担任游戏部门主管。由此可见,迪士尼正将游戏与互联网业务的管理大权集中到同一名高管手上。但即使是巨额投资,也难以挽回迪士尼游戏业务的亏损状态。

迪士尼董事长罗伯特·伊格尔(Robert Iger)曾在与分析师的通话中解释道,让普莱曾运营游戏业务,不光是要让这些业务盈利,而且要让迪士尼的游戏业务多元化发展,这样就不会受困于单一的平台,在同一棵树上吊死。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

As game business changes, Disney’s longtime game studios chief resigns (exclusive memo)
November 22, 2010 | Dean TakahashiAdd a CommentDisney’s top video game chief Graham Hopper just announced to the company’s employees that he is resigning from the division that he ran for more than eight years.

Disney did not give a reason for the departure. But it’s clear that the video game industry is going through a lot of disruptions as social and mobile games join console and PC games as the drivers of growth. Executive departures in this context aren’t that surprising.

Hopper is leaving his job as general manager of Disney Interactive Studios, which has seen huge investments and big title launches in recent years. Its upcoming holiday title, Tron Evolution, is a companion video game for Disney’s big holiday movie, Tron Legacy. Hopper was able to spearhead the development of such titles. Back when Hopper took over, Disney didn’t have much credibility in video games.

Over the years, Hopper’s goal was to triple Disney’s revenues and its investment in video games, building a large collection of internal game studios to make a wide variety of games. But Disney’s game business went through a lot of changes recently. Disney bought Tapulous, the maker of iPhone music games, for an estimated $33 million. It also bought social game company Playdom for as much as $760 million to break into the market for social games on Facebook and MySpace. In a surprise move, Playdom chief executive John Pleasants became the co-president of Disney Interactive Media Group, overseeing the properties Disney acquired.

Pleasants thus became Hopper’s boss while Hopper’s previous boss, Steven Wadsworth, resigned in September. Now Pleasants will take charge of Hopper’s responsibilities as head of the game studios. It seems evident that Disney is unifying its game and internet properties under one executive. It probably didn’t help that Disney’s game business was losing money, despite its heavy investment in games.

Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger discussed the change that placed Pleasants in charge of the Interactive Media Group and its game division in a recent call with analysts.

“By putting John Pleasants in to run games, not only will he focus on turning those businesses into profitability but [he'll focus on] diversifying our presence in the business, so we’re not reliant on one platform that’s obviously facing challenges,” he said. “It’s our goal not only to be profitable, but obviously to get there by shifting our investment.”(source:venturebeat)


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