EA Wants Single Console Platform
- Scribbled on October 19th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Interviews, WTF
Joystiq is reporting that Gerhard Florin, EA’s head of international publishing, wants a single console platform out there.
We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible.
Yeah, and I’m sure Electronic Arts wants one publisher for that console, just as that publisher has a monopoly of the NFL license and is buying up every developer in sight.
Note to EA: Corporate competition drives the economy.
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January 10th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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