Despite the massive exodus of Infinity Ward staff upon Jason West and Vince Zampella's termination, Activision president Bobby Kotick still believes the developing firm is still "amazingly capable", thanks to the remaining staff.

"We're in the video game business. If we can't replace 25 people that would say something pretty disappointing about us as a company, said Kotick. "Well there's at least 60 or 70, super-talented, amazingly capable people who are [still] there. They shouldn't have to suffer for the bad actions of a copule of guys."

He continued to praise those who remained loyal to Infinity Ward despite the controversies that rocked their ranks. "They have a great culture, they're really good independent thinkers; incredible technology base. They can get support like they did from Treyarch, from Demonware and other places."

Funny that he'd mention Treyarch, too, because apparently, Treyarch is not the superior team compared to Infinity Ward. In fact, he claims that Treyarch actually helped out in shaping Modern Warfare 2 to be the blockbuster that it is, particularly in the multiplayer bit.

"That's an unfair view of Treyarch. You know it's not really an objective view. Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in Modern Warfare 2 and they didn't really get the credit for that."

Via [CVG]

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