Can EA create its own console, or should they learn from SEGA
During the last few years we saw how SEGA one of the biggest companies in the videogames industry steps aside and leaves the hardware industry shortly after their last console was released- Dreamcast – one of the most entertaining gaming consoles ever.
The Dreamcast was a real hit maker at its time and its failure was never due to software issues, some companies and game makers are still making success until the current consoles generation as a result of a hit first released on the Dreamcast and even without a DVD drive SEGA managed to bring us a deal of “never stop having fun” at that time, The talk about why and how the Dreamcast failed can never end and honestly its not the reason why I wrote this article.
Gaming industry & media never parts and where is media there will be always rumors and lately one of them can really brings someone’s attention claiming that EA is considering a huge risk by entering the hardware Industry from the widest door.
Building a powerful list of first class studios, And Strengthen their existed studios both helped EA to be just like a Home to the largest number of studios and development teams in the gaming world, All these studios never stopped investing efforts nearly in every gaming genre, undoubtedly EA made a huge success creating a respectful list of developers and no more than quick check for the list of studios below will make any experienced gamer realize that if not EA no other company can really enter the consoles war and have a high possibility of being successful even if they depends solely on their own studios.
EA list of studios :-
- Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores)
- EA Los Angeles (formerly Westwood Studios)
- EA Montreal
- BioWare
- EA Digital Illusions CE
- Pandemic Studios
- EA Black Box
- Maxis
- EA Phenomic
- Criterion Games
- Mythic Entertainment
- EA Sports
- EA Tiburon (Florida)
- EA Canada (Vancouver)
- EA Sports Big (San Francisco)
- EA-NC (North Carolina)
- EA Casual Entertainment
- The Sims
One of the main evidence that EA is planning for something big is the well organized network that they built lately gathering all the gamers of their own games in a huge EA Network providing a unique & customizable Avatar for every player and accumulative points that could be earned from any of EA’s games and then using them to customize your avatar, After all EA will be more than happy if you registered your copy of the game on their official website.
Why not? If you ask me, I consider EA as one of the top 3 video games providers in this generation of consoles and one of the most successful ever, they managed to do nearly everything to keep the pace with the current generation consoles and they proved their worthiness to gain customers trust.
Now lets be honest, Check the list below and I’m sure that every one of us have at least one or two “Must own” games from them, Ok what does that actually means? Consider them as EA’s console exclusive will you buy the console to play your favorite games? Ok I know that not all of you will say “Yea sure I’ll get it!!” but come on, I’m sure that so many gamers will probably go for it, If EA managed to combine reasonable price with a high quality console I’m sure they’ll have a great success.
EA list of Games :-
- Pinball Construction Set (1983) by Bill Budge[66]
- Archon (1983) and Archon II: Adept (1984)
- M.U.L.E. (1983) by Dani Bunten and Ozark Softscape
- One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983) by Eric Hammond
- Music Construction Set (1984) by Will Harvey
- The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) by Dani Bunten and Ozark Softscape.
- The Bard’s Tale (1985) by Interplay Productions
- Mail Order Monsters (1985) by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson and Nicky Robinson
- Racing Destruction Set (1985) by Rick Koenig
- Starflight (1986) by Binary Systems
- Skate or Die! (1987), EA’s first internally-developed title
- Lakers versus Celtics (1989)
- Populous (1989) by Bullfrog which EA acquired in 1995
- Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (1992) by EA’s High Score Production group
- FIFA series (1993—)
- Need for Speed series (1994) (first installment was made by EA in collaboration with Road & Track)
- Ultima Online (1997) by Origin Systems
- Command & Conquer series (titles from 1999–present) by Westwood Studios (earlier titles released by Virgin Interactive)
- Dungeon Keeper series by Bullfrog Productions
- SimCity series (titles from 1999—) by Maxis (earlier titles released by other publishers)
- Medal of Honor series (1999-2008)
- SSX series (2000-2008)
- James Bond series (1999-2005)
- The Sims series (2000—) by EA’s Maxis studio
- Burnout series (2001–present)
- Battlefield series (2002–present) by Digital Illusions CE
- Madden NFL series (1989–present)
- NCAA Football series (1993–present)
- Crysis series (2007–—) by Crytek
- Rock Band series (2007—) by Harmonix
- Mass Effect (2007) by BioWare
- EA Skate (2007)
- Spore (2008) by EA’s Maxis studio
- Dead Space (2008)
- Mirror’s Edge (2008)
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You should probably do a little research. EA already HAS put out a console. It was the 3DO. Trip Hawkins was the head of EA and they spun off the console group into their own company and Trip moved over to head them up. They then licensed the console specs and formats out to various companies such as Panasonic, Goldstar and so on.
When you look at the games EA put out on the 3DO, they are the beginnings of MANY of their current big games. Need for Speed being a very notable example. It was also where they first got into doing multiplayer 3d sports games such as FIFA Soccer.
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 4:28 am
I discussed what will happen if EA do it now, because now some of their games are “must own” for so many gamers.
ex. u can’t say that need 4 speed was a reason to buy the 3DO while it was just a title with no history and released for the first time, Releasing 3DO was nothing near entering the hardware industry from widest door since EA now is better than Anytime before.
anyways thank u my friend
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 7:38 am
unless u r an idiot u have no other reasons to say that….EA already hinted that they may have something defrent on 2012
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
umm why did you list “the sims” as an EA studio ?! its a game not a studio ya know .
plus EA is a giant company they have their business strategys and they know what to do with their own money no need to write about it at first place ya know
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
only got one game on that list, Dead Space & ive only played the first 5 mins of it.. i cant see myself buying an EA machine at all. not interested in pretty much any of their current game line up. too many sequels
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
O M G,
I LOVE EA !!
Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
O M G,
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NOT EA !!!
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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