Saturday, October 20th 2007
Electronic Arts Pushing for Single Open Platform for Games
When a gamer is shopping for the proper device to game upon, they get a huge headache. There are no less than four different choices (PC, Xbox360, PS3, Wii), and all of them have their individual set of games at different price points that perform differently. Electronic Arts is getting very tired of coding it's games four times over, and wants there to be one open platform to ease the headaches of both consumer and developer. Unfortunately for EA and gamers, console manufacturers would not get very much profit if they all just surrendered their proprietary stuff and made one big happy open-source console. Analysts predict that if game consoles do fade out in the near future, they will be replaced by terminal servers, so that users can simply plug in with a set-top box.
Source:
DailyTech
23 Comments on Electronic Arts Pushing for Single Open Platform for Games
Unfortunately the cost of gaming has seen increase in past years, and is going to see more of a increase.
Btw, valve said porting from PC to Xbox360 takes ~1 day of work. EA's mission statement is this: "Create the most profitable products while using the lowest possible quality and effort".
Not forgeting they are probably the WORLDS biggest video games publisher and make so much money its prob hard to imagine how much lol.
with that in mind i feel so sorry for the mighty monolithic entity known as EA
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It sux to be the david in the GOLIATH battle, because they, at EA just figgure there will be another ass to fill my seat at the next PC being built!
I really hope people will stop buying there poorly codded POS games ,either sendin EA to the drawing board to do a little more than rerelease the same game with a new box and year label, or putting a hurt in their wallets.
RANT OVER....THANKS FOR READING!:toast:
GAMERS WE MUST STAND STRONG TOGETHER!!!!
btw, crysis honestly doesnt look that great. The only thing i has going for it is graphics, but that won't make up for the crappy gameplay and knowing EA they will patch it 40 times and just make it worse.
Edit: Also, once I've bought an EA sports game (Rugby, Ice Hockey, American Football, Cricket etc...) on each platform I just download the next version. I'm not gonna pay another thirty+ pounds so I can play the same game but with slightly better graphics....