EA could triple yearly earnings in two years

They can put their name on as many games as they want, but it's not going to help them if the games suck.

Hooray! Now EA can become even more richer and powerful and put out even more shit games and flood the marked and cause another video game crash! We all lose! WOO HOO!

i hope this is true. i keep faith in EA, however i have reasons to believe that atleast half of those games will be pretty blollocks

1 of every 5? I wish there was that ratio of Nin games on the market.

All in all, this couldn't be the end of video gaming could it? Afterall, it was said with multiple variations that during PS2's peak, for every one great to decent PS2 game out there, there 6 to 12 games that were so bad that any self respecting gamer wouldn't play it even if he were paid to do so. Altho, I'm starting to think that many of those 'bad' games were also EA's.

how can EA keep a fanbase to buy their games when they flood the market with horse shit??

seriously EA stop monopolising franchises and ruining them for a profit. if they made them good i wouldnt care. but the fact that these game are SOOO painfully repitive year after year asks me how EA is making so much money?

If one of the big 3 fall this generation, expect to see EA push their way into hardware

(i see 3 scenarios based on who wins, and in the scenario where the Wii wins, PS3 loses, Sony leaves, and SEGA and EA enter the market, fighting Nintendo's and MS's next entrants)

@ #5
Elementary. It happens in the movie business as well. All these bad movies make money and still produce sequels b/c ppl keep watching them.

I'm going to be the gadfly for this thread. Ready for it? Here it goes. EA makes decent games. While people mock them for rehashing the same games year after year, it is a formula that works.

Please why won't EA just let me die?!?

I like the Need for Speed series. That's pretty much it for me though.

To add to the short post I made (I was on the phone), NBA Homecourt is an EA title, and is actually NBA Street 4. When it comes to sports games, the system of tweaking and republishing works fine. I update my Tiger Woods, football, and basketball games periodically, and I'm glad that a slightly newer, slightly better version will come out as expected. It's also a safe bet when throwing down money, and if you recall the sales charts, sports games tend to be the top sellers. Again, EA is doing things right. There's a reason they're on top, and it's not just because of their abusive work ethics.
As with MS, people love to hate the #1, but you have to admit that they're doing things right to corner the market.

Spore alone should bump their stock $15 a share. Skate looks pretty good too.

People in these blogs fail to realize some very important facts about the industry of our beloved hobby. EA makes games that appeal to more casual gamers. Their games are typically easier to play. They rehash control schemes and game engines. They make games that they know some people will like.

These are the reasons "we" hate them, but they are the reasons that EA has grown to be the biggest, most successful game-maker in the world.

A lot of people like to be able to buy the new Madden and are able to play it out of the box. A lot of people like how Call of Duty controls like something they've played before. These semi-casuals make up a huge chunk of the gaming industry. Without them, the industry would fail.

EA makes good games and people buy them. You may not think they are good for the very reasons that many people like them so much. "EA will make the industry fail" ha, dumbest comment I've heard today. How is a company that releases many successful, profitable, multiplatform games that are outdated to hardcores yearly supposed to ruin the industry now?

I think companies like Blizzard, Bungie, and Valve hurt the industry more than anyone because they each have a game so addicting that they make millions of people not want to play any other games ever.

ea sucks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MxTUqPXHk

"I think companies like Blizzard, Bungie, and Valve hurt the industry more than anyone because they each have a game so addicting that they make millions of people not want to play any other games ever."

wow. are u honestly trying to tell me that to have a level of dedication to thier artform above all others as opposed to minimally twaeking and sharpening some textures(all that EA seems to do) is a bad thing??

to come up with a great original idea and take it to a level above and beyond hurts this industry? lol, its the other way around. if every game out there was "EA quality" then the industry WOULD die because we would quickly get bored with the same lame ass games every year.

have u seen reviews of recent games like madden and tiger wood's latest games? over the years the scores are steadily decreasing. both because the games havnt brought anything new to the table in a long time. but overall quality is getting WORSE. its not enough that the games are copies from last year? they are even shittier copies then last year.

The analyst is of course assuming people buy the games.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, guys just wait a minute.

WHOA.

"Please why won't EA just let me die?!?"


What??


-Kimosabae

not surprising, EA is one of the greediest companies ive ever known.

This means less games for me, as i refuse to buy anything put out by EA. Oh well. (Doesn't mean i wont grab a couple off bittorrent though - ZING!)

So basically 4 out of every 5 games aren't EA games. And yet all these little turds who don't buy EA games still continue to complain for no good reason at all, even as wonderful games by perfectly great developers tank in the sales department because these very same people passed them over. Great.

@8 i dont follow your logic here. first u say 4/5 games arnt EA. yeah. well imagine there are 500 major game studios out there. they are fighting for the 4 out of 5 while sits on its monopolised frachise thrown and rakes in the cash. asctually i know why their profits are so high. low production cost helps im sure. when u only have to make a game once and release 7 years worth with tweaking its easy to make profit.

and mind telling me exactly which great games im ignoring? im saying i hate EA not the other studios. i love both small, individual studios with original ideas as well as some heavywieghts (bungie to be precise) im stating the same basic point u are. people over look decent games and just pick up the next generic madden year after year. i mean come on.

honestly if they did good i wouldnt complain a bit. but i hate to see a malpractised company riegh supreme by making shit.

EA is becoming the ClearChannel of radio. They'll just buy everything out ever. And then.... they bring out their evil agendas. Suddenly all video games will ban Howard Stern in addition to sucking.

Just don't buy EA games if you don't like them. How hard is that?

I think they are heading for a minor crash. Too many sports titles every year and people have multiple consoles (but they still only buy Tiger Woods once a year). Sports popularity (outside of NFL and World Football) is declining a bit. I know it doesn't cost them much to release the same title year after year, but there's declining interest in every new title. They're already maxing out the controllers. Wii's popularity shows a certain boredom with better graphics. EA didn't bring sports titles with full features to the new consoles. I think they're played out and tapped out.

Where can these games possibly go in the next ten years? Better graphics, better AI, bigger online tournaments...? The boom is over and the bust is coming.