Electronic Arts is Not Confident About Consoles
Game company planning moves away from console-centric games
Despite new games consoles - Xbox One and PS4 - releasing this month you might expect the full weight of the major game publishers to be thrown behind them. But speaking to investors and analysts this week, one member of the Big Two was questioning the future consoles.
Blake J. Jorgensen – Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President - was the man, right at the end of the conference to state that:
"I mean the gaming community is not all young teenagers. There is a lot of people who play games in their 20s, 30s and 40s. And I clearly, if there is a worry, I worry about young people not playing as many console based games, and so that’s why we’re spending as much time as we are on non-console games as well in mobile and free-to-play and PC-based gaming because that demographic shift over time will continue to impact how many people have a console in their house, and hopefully, the new consoles will keep people excited, but we’ll see how that plays out."
That last bit again: "that demographic shift over time will continue to impact how many people have a console in their house, and hopefully, the new consoles will keep people excited, but we’ll see how that plays out."
Not just aimed at one console (e.g. a partnership) but at all consoles.
Source: SeekingAlpha
Blake J. Jorgensen – Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President - was the man, right at the end of the conference to state that:
"I mean the gaming community is not all young teenagers. There is a lot of people who play games in their 20s, 30s and 40s. And I clearly, if there is a worry, I worry about young people not playing as many console based games, and so that’s why we’re spending as much time as we are on non-console games as well in mobile and free-to-play and PC-based gaming because that demographic shift over time will continue to impact how many people have a console in their house, and hopefully, the new consoles will keep people excited, but we’ll see how that plays out."
That last bit again: "that demographic shift over time will continue to impact how many people have a console in their house, and hopefully, the new consoles will keep people excited, but we’ll see how that plays out."
Not just aimed at one console (e.g. a partnership) but at all consoles.
Source: SeekingAlpha
Companies:
Electronic Arts
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