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Herve Caen (Interplay) Interview at GameSpy

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, May 27, 2002.

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    (Originally posted by Mollusken)

    GameSpy had a chance to sit down with Interplay CEO Herve Caen at E3, and they took the opportunity to ask a few questions about himself and the company.

    Gamespy: Well there was one difference, Interplay got things on the shelf pretty quick, was always much quicker I think than Vivendi does normally for their games. So that's probably because they have different distribution models.

    Herve Caen: Yes, I think so just because this industry is maturing. If you compare this industry when it was years ago when I could finish a game on Friday night and drive my car to the station myself and could get my games on the shelf by Monday. Ah, that's because it was a small industry, there wasn't even an industry, it was very small. We became this year again bigger than the movie business so you have to put some procedures in place because the logistics of shipping hundreds of thousands of games is different than just doing it ourselves. So I think we may have lost a few days in the way you fulfill the channel, but we've gained so much in efficiency. We can reach so much more doors by using Vivendi as a distribution entity. So I don't see it as a negative for us, just the industry matures and you have to change the way you've done business in the past. It is not because you have done it in the past doesn't mean it is the right way to do it in the future.

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