EA Developing Own Console.

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With EA's increasing market domination with its sports, MOH, NFS, The Sims, etc., how long do you think it is before they cut out the middle-men and their royalties and produce a console of their own. I think it could happen two console generations away. Remember, you heard it here first.
 
if they DO make their own console in the future...i would think they would do it w/in the next 4 years...anyone wanna make a photoshop pic of wut it may look like? :D
 
I can see it now.

"Our top-of-the-line console, the MaddenPlayer, has ports for every system that had a Madden game. Now you can play any Madden on the same console with no hassle! It's a revolution!!!"
 
There isn't room for a 4th console, and I think EA has learned from Sega's mistakes. They're making boo-koo money from software, why get into a risky and relatively non-lucrative market like hardware?
 
Which of the 4.5 million Madden fans would not buy a system to play that game if they had to? That doesn't even take into consideration their movie lines of games like LOTR and Harry Potter. Just look at how many of the top games as far as sales, that they have published. It's pretty staggering.
 
Never. EA might be huge, but they are huge in software. They wouldn't want to get into the hardware manufacturing business, unless it was like a 3DO model.

Jeremy
 
[quote name='repetske']Which of the 4.5 million Madden fans would not buy a system to play that game if they had to? That doesn't even take into consideration their movie lines of games like LOTR and Harry Potter. Just look at how many of the top games as far as sales, that they have published. It's pretty staggering.[/quote]

A. I dont think too many people would buy a $200 console just for Madden, they'd play one of the many other football games.

B. If EA dedicated their games to only their hardware (which would have a mediocre install base), they wouldn't have the clout to get ahold of many of those movie franchises.
 
Nay sayers. I was just trying to have something different to discuss for the afternoon. I saw an episode of Icons where they discussed EA and how Tripp Hawkins wanted EA to make a console early on and they wouldn't so he left to make the 3DO. It was also funny when they talked about the first time the made the Madden two years in a row. They were like "Football two years in a row? That would never work."
 
...um.. never..

a company doesnt just go from just making games, to making hardware.

1. it wouldn't sell well..

2. they would no longer make games for the other consoles that do sell well.. therefore they'd lose a shitload of money and go out of business.

they're already doing good, why do something stupid like that?
 
A system for the non-gamer...it would be like the PS2 but more of a draw with the sports freaks. (BTW, im not dissing the PS2)
 
Look at Sega, their consoles sold terrible, but since becoming a developer, they are making money. I think it is too big of a risk for EA to gamble on.
 
[quote name='Wshakspear']A system for the non-gamer...it would be like the PS2 but more of a draw with the sports freaks. (BTW, im not dissing the PS2)[/quote]


That's what I was trying to get across without actually saying it in my previous post.
 
The only person within EA who ever had hardware ambitions, Trip Hawkins, left a long, long, time ago. They became very heavily invested in the Amiga and could only watch while Commodore made it into a train wreck. Hawkins was convinced he could have made it work if only he'd been in charge.

The people who run EA know the trick is to let other people run headlong into brick walls trying to get new platforms launched while picking and choosing which ones might have a chance of breaking through the wall to sell enough software to be worthwhile.
 
[quote name='repetske']Which of the 4.5 million Madden fans would not buy a system to play that game if they had to? That doesn't even take into consideration their movie lines of games like LOTR and Harry Potter. Just look at how many of the top games as far as sales, that they have published. It's pretty staggering.[/quote]

As a Madden fan, I would not.

The Madden license, IIRC, is up for renewal after the 2005 series, so while it would be suprising to see Madden go elsewhere it is not out of the realm of possibility.

Viacom isn't buying EA....so who knows

CTL
 
*cringes at the thought of EA making a console*

Great, we can have a specific system to play our endless Madden, sports and movie liscense games on! We can call the NoBrainerGamerBox! And if the games suck, who cares! People will still buy them!

I so hope EA doesn't make a console. Sometimes I think its bad enough that they make software.
 
It would be interested if they did but they are a VERY corporate company. They are too smart to make such a dumb ass mistake.

The only mistake they made which is corrected was not releasing EA Xbox Live games.
 
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