14 DAY TRIAL // Publisher Electronic Arts might have some problems with the clarity with which it presents its financial results for the last quarter of 2010, but the company is still very much interested in creating a first-person shooter that can sell better and receive more praise than the Call of Duty series from rival Activision.
Speaking to investors as part of a post financial results investor call John Riccitiello, who is the chief executive officer at Electronic Arts, has stated, “I’ve been saying that it’s our long-term goal to take back the first-person shooter category leadership. We made strong progress in calendar ’10 over calendar ’09.”
He then went on to add, “This year, with the trail end of Battlefield Bad Company 2 still doing well, Medal of Honor doing well, Crysis and Bulletstorm, we’re clearly going to make more progress on our goal, and that’s before we get to what I think is going to be a very exciting entry later in the year that we’re not yet announcing.”
Riccitiello did not talk about it, but we already know that Electronic Arts is getting ready to show off Battlefield 3 for the first time officially at the Game Developers Conference and that the game will probably be thoroughly detailed before the end of 2011, so it's unlikely that this is the mysterious new FPS.
It could be that Electronic Arts is preparing to talk about the new game from Respawn Entertainment, the development team that was built by Vince Zampella and Jason West, the two ex Infinity Ward bosses, who are thought to be working on a new shooter.
The CEO of the publisher might also be suggesting that Medal of Honor 2 is already being developed and could arrive in 2012.
The developers said that they would create a follow up if sales were good, and Electronic Arts has said that the rebooted first game sold more than 5 million all over the world.