First, the big news, the report breaks down earning by platform. PC delivered $276 million, the Xbox 360 $292 million and the PS3 $267 million. So the EA, one of the biggest publishers in the world, made more money from the PC than from the PS3.{Tom Hatfield}
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
Of course they're going to make more on PC now that they are forcing people to use Origin. They get all profit at $60 prices.
Edit: There is no hate against EA going this route from me. Only logic as to why their PC profits jumped up as much as they did. $30 profit from Origin w/ $60 PC games = a lot more profit than $8-12 max profit from consoles w/$60 console games. On top of that, SWtOR made a lot of money for them as well. Not as much as they lost in the past developing it, but a lot of money this year.
Some people tend to think the PC doesn't make any money cause the PC doesn't advertise Games 24/7 but these numbers show that the PC makes cash for EA just like the Xbox360 and PS3.
Just to think most PC Gamers dislike Origin and many EA titles are console Ports so the few EA PC titles like The Sims, SWTOR, Battlefield 3, The Secret World, Warhammer Online, EA's P4F brand etc. are making a ton of cash on the PC.
(yes i know BF3 is a multiplat but it was made PC first then ported down)
Sure EA's console ports are not huge sellers on the PC (PC Gamers prefer PC specific titles not crappy ports) but EA is smart to have a list of dedicated PC titles. EA has been trying to blatantly copy World of Warcraft but EA needs to make original content instead of Copy n Paste.
With so many Game Changing PC titles coming out soon EA may need to rethink it's PC strategy if it wants to continue improving those PC Numbers.
Pretty gutterd origin wont work with my modem crysis 2 and bf3 unable to play yet every other game and service runs perfect built a new rig lol for bf3 cost $ 1,600 and cant play ha ha ha ha ha ha either have to get a new modem or change isp, why does uplay, gfwl and steam work so great the forums on origin are funny people demanding refunds lol thomson 585 v8 face palm it disconnects my internet have to reboot pc and modem .
Mmmm pretty sure this show how consoles re strong in its 7th year, 2 to 1 compared to pc( and dont tell me that more platforms, there re hundreds of milion pcs out there, and 8600 30$ gpu can run me3)
They also have origin, more titles on pc, swtor, sims, micro trans.games, older games not on consoles sold in bundles etc. Mstter of fact show that their usual games sell more on console despite smaller margins, less total games...
But im glad all platforms re doing ok, just little observation
"A lot of it is from Origin, which now has 21 million users." it should be "forced" users :P