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If EA Launched A Console

Would the current three competitors be wiped out of the competition due to EA's massive and loyal following? Read the arguments and discuss them yourself here.

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Silogon6596d ago

It would produce Nascar 09 quality graphics for 10 years and every game would use the same engines for 20 plus years. I'd never buy it and I'd hope consumers wouldn't either.

Well, I'd atleast hope the NFL wouldn't allow them to continue with the license.

FredFredrickson6596d ago

So legions of Madden fans are going to make a console? I don't think so.

deeznuts6596d ago

Yeah they're not loyal, they're stuck. Exclusive deals with the NFL will do that to you.

Bring back NFL Blitz!

ajeben8096596d ago

we wood see a new 1 every year...worse than microsoft

dan-boy6596d ago (Edited 6596d ago )

and microsoft do what the sony fanboys pray they do and pull out of the console market, then i think ea mite feel confident enough to go ahead and release a console.

and with no other sports game competition because aquiring take two would eliminate that. they would have gta also. probably the highest grossing franchise available at the mo. i think getting take two would be a key to ea's console ambitions.

they have

dice
bioware
criterion
pandemic

three great studios that spring to mind.....plus they have nearly ten times that number. and they publish alot of stuff for independants like valve.

and look at all the franchises they have past and present.

battlfield
road rash
burnout
nfs
all the sports games
the sims
red alert
lord of the rings
mass effect
mercernaries

if microsoft left the console market, you could bet that ea would stand ready to snap up any studios that became available.

there's a whole lot more that i cant remember, and i aint time because im going out in a minute anyway....

bottom line. microsoft has proved that there is room for three consoles on the market. i know alot of sony fanboys hate microsoft, but they should see the bigger picture, and what could potentially happen if ea get take two, and microsft disappear.....

ea churns out alot of rubbish, but that rubbish sells lots and lots. not only that, they now have some great studios under their belts(unfortunately), and some pretty decent frnachises are owned by them. which if were all gonna be on their own console, would not appear any where else. and if people were honest, they would know that at present, no console could survive without ea's support.

if it happened, they could dominate the market. they've got so many in house franchises, that singularly, i'm sure they have more than sony or nintendo.

uie4rhig6595d ago

well for starters games like fifa, mass effect, crysis and such would all be Electronic Arts Station (what i think they'll call the console :P) exclusive .. so i highly doubt it would be a failure.. i would guess that the only way to make such a console a failure is delivering the crappy games that EA delivers (note that i am saying EA, not Bioware, Dice or w/e other company they have bought)

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HD300Gamr6596d ago

EA makes some good games. I've played NHL for over a decade. But I would resist buying a console from this company.

I suppose you should never say never but they'd have to come up with something very unique.

Varsarus6596d ago

Then it will be sad time for gaming.

FredFredrickson6596d ago

In some sense, EA already did launch a console actually - the 3DO was created by EA co-founder, Trip Hawkins.

DrWan6596d ago

if they want to bankrupt, go for it

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot66d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle66d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7766d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan72d ago (Edited 72d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg72d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree72d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai71d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.