VideoGamer.com writes: "When I first heard of the astonishing deal it got me to thinking that maybe, just maybe, EA wanted Take-Two not just because it wants to sell more sports games at a high price, but because it believes that now, finally, the time is right to take on the might of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft by releasing its own video game console."
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Personally i think they'd be stupid to move into the console market (hardware-wise), EA have a great money making potentail at the moment with their multi-plats, there's no need to push for more, just look how much its cost M$ to break into the market and they're yet to make any real money from it (obviously thats largely their fault).
Still, if it happens, im happy that Sony has so many in house developers.
That'll be a real barn burner, lemme tell ya... Atleast we don't have to worry about them ditching the system. I mean, look at their track record. They've used the same Madden engine for over almost 10 years now.
When a company gets as HUGE as EA people starting pondering how they could "really shake things up" kinda like with google and free satellite broadband and cell phones.
Think about it. How many consoles would EA have to get sold to sell as many units of software they currently do on multiplatforms? That would take massive investment and a large loss on hardware for a couple of years. Unlike MS and Sony EA doesn't have other huge business units to support that investment. If they supported all platforms until their platform was established it would take away their platforms biggest advantage.
While it definately would SHAKE things up (wonder if Sony, MS and Nintendo would have to develop their own sports games with no NFL) but I'll be shocked if it happens. We'll probably see Apple take another whack at consoles before EA jumps in.
so were are the anti-truth ppl?
I would NEVER buy it no matter how many games they get. I HATE EA!