AAAAAAMMMMMAAAAAAZZZZIIIIINNNN NGGGGGGG! LOL

EA has really turned around this gen. Dead space is one of my favorites and I really enjoyed Mirror's Edge. Not to mention the great job they've done with Bad Company.

EA has been pushing out some quality titles lately and with the newly released BC2 beta, their line-up keeps getting better. It saddens me though, that these magnificent titles, like Dead Space and Mirror's Edge only receive such little attention to the public. It worries me as well because what if they cant get the expected sales? will they cancel the series, or even worse; cancel the developers themselves? Hopefully soon enough people will realise what EA has been putting out for the last couple of years.

But yea. I've been playing BC2 beta like crack and it is such an amazing game. If you feel like taking a break from those super fast paced shooters like MW2, then BC2 is meant for you. It's refreshing actually.

Cherry picked? There's no way to cherry pick obvious choices. Cherry picking implies I searched for hidden gems, or went wayyyy back in the past, maybe talking about Grim Fandango or how Shadow Colossus didn't sell well. I chose the games that are obviously important, because they've been in the faces of the community for a long time, and still didn't sell well.

Sure, you might hate all of those games but you'll find it hard to find another person who, of Mirror's Edge, Dead Space and Brutal LEgend, didn't like a single one.

So, now we ARE saying that SALES=QUALITY are we? Couse that argument REALY works doesn't it? Because Okami is crap and Wii Fit is amazing, yes? Or mayve Brain Training is better than Ico? Are we REALLY saying that and that it's THAT simple?

Of course it isn't. Dead Space was, for me at least, a WAY better realised game than Resi5 but without the big franchise name it failed, first time out to sell in the nunbers EA will have hoped BUT there's still a sequel coming for the HD consoles so EA MUST have broken even and feel there's a good chance of a REsi rivalling franchise-and remember how it spawned spin offs in the graphic art and lit world and animations to boot? It still has a strong image and will be something that, imo, will succeed in the mid/long term and EA sticking with it-despite their daft actions over Extraction on Wii(seriously, why did they imagine a non resi lightgun game would fly when HotD with more of a name than DS never has-and with NO promotion either-of course! Blame the gamer for understanding they wanted a REAL Dead Space and not a "guided FP" version-many turned off the moment "rails" and lightgun" were so artfully avoided! There was to be little value, or replay value for, the admittedly well realised Extractionnd that's our fault?!)so isn't a great example of EA going back to their bad old Acti-lite ways.

Not that EA laying off so many or icing the follow up to the "too radical" Mirror's Edge has slipped my gaze-just as I imagine EA didn't miss the money that IW/Acti are rolling in on the back of MW2 and some pretty poor dev/Pub-gamer relations over the title. No doubt they saw how Acti and their little monkey chums at IW have managed to line their pockets while splitting the gaming populous inot factions fighting against each other while they put out the biggest game of the year which leans heavily on it's MP as a premium(in name and some price tags-EU and PC)without dedicated servers on ANY platform-which SHOULD affect sales of such a game in 2009 but, sadly, with a lot of console gamers too eager to side with Acti/IW because they felt(just as many PC gamers made the rift even worse by giving it the "we're above you" speech in relply to console gamers who felt they shouldn't care when the get treated this way ALL the time)they weren't losing oput when, relly, we all did. MW2 not having dedicateds is an insult and a backwards step for online gaming-it's the online equivalent of going back to the stone age on PC and after COD4's amazing success it's amazing that they didn't appear on consoles too-when other games can why isn't the market leader?

So while Acti profit(in a massive way too) from such tactics just why would EA syick wih a more honouravle, longer looking effort? The lay offs are just the start U'm afraid and we ARE a little to blame for mainly buying sequel after sequel.AND allowing ourselves to be ruled by division.

I think that the article is dead on and we will be seeing EA take a much safer road with the games it does and does not publish for the next few years. Two years ago Publishers could afford to take chances on new IP's like Mirror's Edge and the like. With the economy like it is though, everyone is tightening their belts.

Harsh lol