EA founder Trip Hawkins has predicted the death of the traditional games console's dominance - forecasting that all future gaming will be Cloud-based.
Hawkins believes that developers will need to cross "platform boundaries" to succeed in this brave new world - bringing an end to console exclusives such as Alan Wake and Heavy Rain - as games will be playable via multiple devices.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
Replies(1)
When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
console exclusives are alive and kicking on the ps3&wii
Good. The more people able to play every game the better. But companies that go multiplatform after being mainly exclusive or companies that regularly develop multiplatform games need to make sure every game is the same on each platform or else they should just stick to making exclusives. You look at the RDR problems on PS3 and differences with it in comparison to the X360 version and also the FFXIII differences on the X360 in comparison to the PS3 version and it shouldn't happen.
Don't go multiplatform unless you can offer everyone the same experience.
there are ways to get more console exclusives, like have a console far more advanced in tech and graphics, or have a distinctive unique controller (wii).
Console exclusives definitely arent dead.
When mario is on the ps3, then console exclusive are dead