EA Admits FIFA 'Lost it' to PES
Also Peter Moore's take on how long discs will last
Speaking to SPOnG in an interview to be published this afternoon, head of EA Sports, Peter Moore has expressed his opinion on a wide variety of subjects including, of course, FIFA versus PES.
When asked the reason for FIFA's decline in the early part of the 2000s, Moore was forthcoming:
"I think what happened was that the console transition was a particularly difficult time. I wasn’t around in those days, but you’ve clearly got to make sure you don’t lose it, and they must have lost it there for a little bit. The good news is that we’ve got our mojo back."
Looking to the future, Moore also has opinions regarding the lifetime of disc-based gaming:
"There’s still a lot of life – for many, many years, we’ll still be buying disks. But I think most people understand, whether it’s five years, ten years or 50 years from now, disks won’t exist – they’ll go the way of 8-track cartridges and everything else. Once we get bandwidth and local storage, games will ultimately be played out of the cloud, or downloaded onto your hard drive. That’s just the way the world, eventually, will go. But we’re a long way away from that at the moment."
Read the full, in-depth interview later today.
When asked the reason for FIFA's decline in the early part of the 2000s, Moore was forthcoming:
"I think what happened was that the console transition was a particularly difficult time. I wasn’t around in those days, but you’ve clearly got to make sure you don’t lose it, and they must have lost it there for a little bit. The good news is that we’ve got our mojo back."
Looking to the future, Moore also has opinions regarding the lifetime of disc-based gaming:
"There’s still a lot of life – for many, many years, we’ll still be buying disks. But I think most people understand, whether it’s five years, ten years or 50 years from now, disks won’t exist – they’ll go the way of 8-track cartridges and everything else. Once we get bandwidth and local storage, games will ultimately be played out of the cloud, or downloaded onto your hard drive. That’s just the way the world, eventually, will go. But we’re a long way away from that at the moment."
Read the full, in-depth interview later today.
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