Comments on: Electronic Arts Blew this Console Cycle? http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/01/11/electronic-arts-blew-this-console-cycle/ GameStooge: Videogaming Newsblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:35:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jonah Falcon http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/01/11/electronic-arts-blew-this-console-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-19511 Jonah Falcon Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:40:36 +0000 http://www.gamestooge.com/?p=4228#comment-19511 Which is why EA's been laying off 10% of their workforce and closing studios down? Which is why EA’s been laying off 10% of their workforce and closing studios down?

]]> By: RewiredMind http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/01/11/electronic-arts-blew-this-console-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-19480 RewiredMind Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:04:11 +0000 http://www.gamestooge.com/?p=4228#comment-19480 Awesome bait. It all depends on what you term as a failure. Dead Space has built a good following and when the sequels eventually get released, they'll sell a bucketload. Mirror's Edge was an infuriating experiment, and I have no doubt that a sequel will be forthcoming for that. Need for Speed was dire this year. Spore was a good game that was ridiculously over-hyped and didn't need anything like the nineteen bajillion years of development time that it had. The failure to take over Take Two doesn't reflect on the company's position in the market at all. If you even have the muscle to seriously attempt to buy the company behind what is probably the biggest game franchise in the World right now, then I'm relatively sure that you'll last another year. Oh, and FIFA 2009 has absolutely dominated the charts in the UK and Europe on all formats, in the same way that Madden generally does in the US. They've just announced three new MySims titles, and have The Sims 3 and countless expansion packs on the way. Wait...isn't The Sims the biggest selling PC game of all time? What exactly causes you to think that the biggest third-party publisher in gaming WON'T survive in 2009, again? Poor sales of three titles out of probably 40 in 2008? Awesome bait.

It all depends on what you term as a failure. Dead Space has built a good following and when the sequels eventually get released, they’ll sell a bucketload.

Mirror’s Edge was an infuriating experiment, and I have no doubt that a sequel will be forthcoming for that.

Need for Speed was dire this year. Spore was a good game that was ridiculously over-hyped and didn’t need anything like the nineteen bajillion years of development time that it had.

The failure to take over Take Two doesn’t reflect on the company’s position in the market at all. If you even have the muscle to seriously attempt to buy the company behind what is probably the biggest game franchise in the World right now, then I’m relatively sure that you’ll last another year.

Oh, and FIFA 2009 has absolutely dominated the charts in the UK and Europe on all formats, in the same way that Madden generally does in the US. They’ve just announced three new MySims titles, and have The Sims 3 and countless expansion packs on the way.

Wait…isn’t The Sims the biggest selling PC game of all time?

What exactly causes you to think that the biggest third-party publisher in gaming WON’T survive in 2009, again? Poor sales of three titles out of probably 40 in 2008?

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