n-Space in zwaar weer

Volgens de oprichter van n-Space, Dan O’Leary, verkeert de studio in zwaar weer. Het was al eerder bekend dat er ontslagen zouden vallen binnen de studio. Dan O’Leary wist het volgende er bij te melden:

“After supporting 70-90 employees for several months without funding, Friday’s lay-offs were unavoidable. Life as an independent developer is often a painful hand-to-mouth exercise of love. This has never been more true than in the last few years. The games industry is, frankly, a mess. The economy has robbed customers of disposable income, reducing the number of titles that purchased per year. Huge-budget titles have to sell massive numbers to return a profit and the App Store has disrupted our industry in the same way iTunes changed consumer expectations for music.People that used to buy many games every year now buy a few AAA titles, supplementing their need with games that are free or cost less than a pack of gum. Anything in the middle is struggling .The Wii and DS markets have nearly collapsed and 3DS is a brave new world the publishers are excited about but also very cautious to enter. Even for an extremely successful Wii/DS developer like n-Space, with a long history of delivering quality titles on time and on budget, this creates a very challenging business environment.”

Een reden waarom de studio in financiële problemen is geraakt; is dat er op het laatste moment een grote deal is afgeketst. Over de inhoud van de deal en met welke partij is voorlopig onbekend. n-Space is momenteel bezig aan de DS-versie van de Call of Duty franchise.