The article begins on a seemingly harmless note: EA’s COO believes that traditional gamers will take longer to convince that new innovations will be beneficial.
It’s a fair enough point on the surface, but this amounts to little more than PR speak. What Peter Moore is saying ever so delicately, is that the industry is fine and that the gaming community has something of a perception issue. The man genuinely believes our issues stem from mythical pairs of nostalgia goggles, enchanted with liberal amounts of anger and hatred (obviously). Of course, that’s the purpose of PR banter, isn’t it? To provide a sprinkle of truth and ignore the elephant in the room? To lull the less informed into an altered state of reality?
It feels like the video game console is at a crossroads. With Xbox Series X and S floundering in the ‘console war’, Sony suggesting PlayStation 5 is approaching the second half of its life after missing sales targets, and uncertainty around the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, there is growing concern that the traditional video game console business could be under threat.
It's obvious that MS is leaving the console biz. MS may have tons of money, but that doesn't mean they want to keep losing money on the gaming division to prove a point. Thanks Phil
Good article and this is not a duplicate. The link that @Maximus Prime shared is just a small portion of the full interview. This post is the full interview.
Times are changing quick, the same ol way the industry been is changing. Where people play is changing.
“What I think Phil is doing is setting up some smoke signals that we're thinking very differently”
I’m surprised how slowly Microsoft is moving toward Xbox as a software platform. They usually don’t care so much about upsetting their customers with unpopular changes like they do with every other version of Windows.
This "console market hasn't grown narrative " is overblown. The market has grown just not as fast as say smartphones. But so what? There is still money to be made in the business and just because Microsoft has failed doesn't mean the entire industry is facing sudden collapse. Gaming will be fine, every industry has to go through periods of restructuring. AAA games are made becuase its what attracts gamers the most and is where they spend the most money. (Demand/supply) Microsoft abandoning hardware should have happened years ago, they clearly lost interest at a base level in producing games and/or paying 3rd parties to back during the tail end of the 360 generation. Tired of hearing about the future of gaming, just make great games and/or invest in one's made by other to attract people to your platform.
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.
Nice to see the phrase "COULDN'T care less" being used correctly on the internet.
Great article.
'Sigh'
This topic pains me to no end.
Innovation vs the old way is the way this argument is painted but from a business perspective it is much different than that.
Gamers are revenue to these companies, the hours we spend playing games are of value to them.
Any hours we spend playing old games they are not making money on those gamer hours, it would be more profitable for them if they either found a way to monetize playing older games (ps now) or eliminate physical games altogether from this point on to avoid today's physical games blocking future profit (EA's love of all digital and their subscription service).
The problem is not so much the money spent on a 2nd hand product at gamestop where game devs don't profit it's that the hours spend from these games have no value to the developer even if it's a copy of a game you yourself have owned for 12 years or that you bought 2nd hand.
The death of replay value, dlc, subscription services, premium services like xbox live and ps+ are all attempts at maximizing their profit off time we invest.
Sorry but I am not a consumable and I will not be seen as a villain or as an antique to fit a companies vision of the value of my time.
If you want to profit off my time make it worthwhile to me, so far none of this "innovation" has done that.
It still pains me that our friend here still thinks he is relevant.
if not for dead space id never buy another ea game. cant believe they let that franchise go down the pooper, i personally thought dead space 1&2 were ea's best games.
the 3 comes out and is like "check me out you can do all that isolated scary alone in space stuff, with a friend! and just in case we didnt alienate our fans enough, lets replace all workbench's and stores with the micro transaction bench! oh and make sure they know its not dead space 1&2 by putting two buttons on every door even when playing alone, just to make sure they know theyre experience is being trimmed."
man f ea, im literally swearing off micro dlc, coming from 360 to ps4 and playing my first "NAUGHTY GOD" game, i mean these devs are supposed to be the best in the industry, seeing as at this moment 97 HATS AND GUNS. are you serious? like for real? 97? disgusting practice, just finished adding up all the dlc, and the cheapest price to pay for all dlc by buying bundles, is $113 in perks, op guns, hats, and gestures. new name GD GREEDY DOG.
now you all may think im just a dumb hater of ND but no im a pro-consumerist if i can make up a word for a second, lets say i love ND so to show support for their company, i buy all 97 dlc's, great for ND as thats $163 dollars they got from me for one game, and im left with hats and guns, am i to believe that these dlc's hold greater value than the game? as i got a 15 hour replayable experiance for $50 but for $113 i get hats, guns perks etc.? if im going to support a company, weather i liked the game or not, (like when i bought max payne 3 season pass) i should at least get value for my money.