Analyst: EA to Lose Market Share as Game Quality Remains 'Questionable'

EA just lost $195 million in its second quarter. It has been losing market share in the video game industry. Its recent titles have not been selling quickly. Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel forecasts that EA will continue to lose market share due to concern over its game quality, which remains "questionable". Patel has downgraded EA stocks to "Sell".

GameDaily reports the details and numbers of Patel's analysis.

[freakyzeeky]

Well EA's games was never really been known to make the best 'quality' games, hopefully EA takes heed of this news and increases the quality of their games in the near future.

[ruibing]

Nope, their answer is a single, open platform for consoles. No more cross platforms or porting, basically they want a PC gaming console.

[ATLRoAcH]

is vital in the video games industry.Evolve or become extinct.

[gtgcoolkid]

I swear EA pumps out the same games year in and out. I am glad the people are finally catching on.

[gamesR4fun]

crap sales can i have the ceo's job now?

[b777conehead]

i didn't by madden for the ps3 this year

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

Just Boycott EA till they start updating thier games.

[patriotZero]

EA doesn't develop games, they develop themself.

[Bonsai1214]

questionable is the understatement of the century...

[GIJeff]

I would say theyre sports games havent changed for the better in 7 years, but i wouldnt say all of their games are bad. It seems everyone likes burnout, skate seems to be doing well, the battlefield series. I understand its cool to hate EA, but their not as bad as Bungie....lol.

[Bathyj]

Burnout being a great series has NOTHING to do with EA. You can thank Criterion for that.

EA used to be good but they've spread themselves to thin at the expensive of quality.

They need to stop worrying about trying to own everything and fix the sh*t they already have.

[crck]

Go Activision!

[happyjimmy]

They are biased and lazy. I hope the end up where sega is.

[Captain Tuttle]

The other day and they were talking about EA's poor performance. The one analyst blamed it on the PS3's poor sales. Nope. The last 5 years or so have seen a dramatic drop in quality from EA for most of their games across all platforms...they've been mediocre at best. Nearly every gamer hates them. They have to work hard to get their reputation back. Hopefully "Dead Space" will be the start of that trend.

[Salvadore]

They better start improving the quality of their games.

[RunamukK]

Ea sucks.I refuse to buy their games until they get their crap together. Oh, and I think that Segas much better nowadays.

[sovietsoldier]

ea needs to sell to someone else, anyone else!

[bootsielon]

Quality should = sales

[Kaneda]

Blame on Peter Moore!

[hotrider12]

just plainly sucks nfs has not changed much since hot pursuit and high stakes. its getting worst by the years last 5 years that is, Im sure if EA hit rock bottom and start caring about what gamers want then they'll pop back up at the top.