SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. James M. Whitehurst has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the Board. Roelof Botha, Lead Independent Director of the Unity Board, has been appointed Chairman. Mr. Riccitiello will continue to advise Unity to ensure a smooth transition.
Probably too late for Unity. A commercial game engine only makes money if there is a constant influx of new games to sustain it. I bet a lot of developers, large and small, have already decided to dump the platform either immediately or for their next project. So revenues are going to go into free fall.
Devs will move to Unreal (powerful) or Godot (free) and Unity will die. And it’s all thanks to John here and the other members of the board who thought squeezing people for $$$ who have choices was a good idea.
There’s also Bevy, which can infect them with the Rust mind controlling slime that makes them swear up and down that it’s an amazing game engine because it runs on Rust.
It is actually pretty good though the folks developing it are putting their A Game into it even if it’s still technically in the development phase.
Unity was been a massive need of an update anyway and just wasn’t getting it. Something like this was always going to happen. This whole debacle has only accelerated it.
All they could have spent some money and upgraded Unity, but clearly that was never going to happen.