Edge: As part of our in-depth look at EA in issue 219 of Edge (available from UK newsagents today), we spoke to Peter Moore. Here's part two of our exclusive interview with the president of EA Sports, in which he tells us where the company intends to take the EA Sports brand in future.
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.
When the dust settles on the $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia will be its only true owner, despite a “consortium” of investors being involved in the deal. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will control 93 percent of the company, according to filings with Brazil’s antitrust regulator.
Technically speaking, Saudi Arabia and TENCENT can buy the entire USA. ANf Democrat and Republican will not do crap!
Letting foreign entities own half of American businesses is liberal and very progressive. So is bringing in all that talent from outside the States to replace the talentless and lazy American workers. And here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope. We're supposed to worry bout them "radical Muslims" minding their own here and ignore China/Saudi/Israel taking over.
Another thing I hate hearing is "liberal and very progressive"
It's 2025 and that stuff is outdated. Everything and everyway is literally the same thing wheter it's progressive, conservativ. Because they all wants the same thing have, king unlimited oney buy everything including your house.
Now they making mainstream media news that it's AI Bubble justify to highjack the price of RAM.
Another excuse for inflation!
"here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope"
Lol, you actually bought what he was selling? Let's see this week alone...
Yesterday he pardoned an international drug lord, while allowing the murder of random fishermen on boats. Remember drain the swamp? He pardoned a Democratic Congressman jailed for bribery just today, nevermind that fraudulent drag queen republican that was kicked out of Congress and imprisoned for their fraud. It's so petty they're picking fights on social media with pop stars while using their music, and even using Franklin the damn Turtle to cartoonify their murders.
People I do not use /s to point out my sarcasm. Should be obvious I don't believe anything coming out of Trump's mouth or any politicians mouth.
its quite ridiculous that they were able to do that. or even allowed to.
but saudis even have their grabby hands in nintendo stocks.
Looking on the bright side, the games may be patched to remove any ideologies that are incompatible for the majority of the world.
To celebrate the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Eurogamer sits down with former Xbox boss Peter Moore to reflect on the console's creation and puglistic launch.
Part 2 tomorrow. Good read.
One could make a case that Xbox Live was the quarterback. Getting the ball into the hands of millions of players. Connecting their community. Quite the time. Plus we had the push to be this all in one entertainment unit. Everyone had to evolve, in a hurry.
I was a ps3 fanboy back then but boy do I miss the 360 and the competition, the games, the fun that xbox gave.
I unfortunately could only focus on one console because I was but a child with no money back then lol. What a generation that was.
Good gen, I agree.
A case could be made that Xbox 360 made PS3 better over time. Got a unified friend list, in-game messaging, trophy support. I forget who did cloud saves first, but that got patched in. Prices came down, features went up.
Wasn’t all roses mind you (the online pass experiment, paid online), but the positives probably outweigh the negatives.
It’s too bad they didn’t focus on making games instead of paying for IP to not be on PS. I have always bought every console and didn’t care about competition between them until MS showed they were bad for gaming and consoles. I bought the original Xbox and 360. If MS would have taken a different approach I’d still be playing on Xbox.
They had no choice though. OG xbox sold 25 mil? Who is going to develop an exclusive for your new console for free? There is no money in that. Did what they had to do to compete against goliath Sony
I remember xbox was actively inciting the console war. Every xbox magazine was chuck full of console war propaganda. They didn’t do themselves a lot of good by not building games internally. Halfway through that gen 360 stopped having exclusives because with PlayStation install base rising it became too expensive for MS to keep buying game exclusivity.
Absolutely! And this was their down fall come around 2011 after the Gears 3 launch. There was nothing. Bungie was gone. They kept Halo but didn't have the talent to keep Halo what it always was.
They kept Gears ip, but lost Epic's relationship and didn't have the talent to keep gears what it was.
MS was eventually found out that they severely lack good internal development management and talent. It is expensive to keep 3rd party exclusives going while your competitor continues to grow as well.
Combine that with the 2013 xbox one launch and this is how we get here today. Xbox turning into a publisher with their tails between their legs.
Microsoft definitely started it tho.
i remember it well; all the attacks in interviews, on twitter etc.
and then the infamous e3 conference came and they introduced the kinect amd wkth all the nonsense they thought people wanted and were immediately humbled by fans.
