NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home / News / Games

Games


EA Sports President Peter Moore Sees a Grim Future for Videogames

According to him, our grandkids won't even understand the concept anymore

By Florian Totu, Games Editor

20th of October 2009, 08:07 GMT

Adjust text size:


As the president of a videogame company, he seems a little too relaxed
Enlarge picture
PSP Go's decision to head more towards digital distribution and discard the physical support for most of its products has received harsh criticism. But at least one other person out there thinks that Sony's new console is making the right decision. EA Sports president Peter Moore didn't make any direct references to the handheld platform, but he does share the same vision. In the future they see, the disc and boxed video game
is a museum piece regarded as a thing of the past.

"Look at the platform we're on, it's a burning platform," Moore said at a PLAY Digital Media Conference, IGN reports. "As a concept, do you stay on the platform and face certain death, or do you jump into the water and face probable death? Most of you would choose probable death, so you start moving towards a hybrid model of digital distribution." It may not be an opinion shared by many right now, but it does seem like it's slowly gaining popularity.

Asked if consoles altogether could die out, Peter Moore said that it was very probable. "I'd say the core business model of video games is a burning platform. Absolutely. We all recognize that, and we'll recognize it 10 years from now when we tell our grandkids. We'll tell them we used to drive to the store to get shiny discs that have bits and bites on them and we'd place them in this thing called a 'disc tray,' and it'd whirl around...and they'll go 'What?'"

As president of EA Sports, it seems he won't make a drastic change in the company's policy regarding product distribution, but he does admit that they need to start preparing for this upcoming change. "As digital distribution becomes more and more, we'll continue as an industry to work with retail and to ship discs, but more and more of the content will be in the 'cloud.'" he stated. "More content will be delivered daily, weekly, or monthly, and less will be of the old model of cartridges and discs."

TAGS:

Peter Moore | Electronic Arts | EA Sports | PSP Go | digital distribution
Read by 301 user(s) | Add comment | Link to this article TWEET THIS


Article rating:
Excellent (5.0/5) 1 vote(s)    

Subscribe to news | Print article | Send to friend

© Copyright 2001-2009 Softpedia
Contact:

 

 

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :




Today's News
| Yesterday's News | News Archive


MORE RELATED ARTICLES:


PSP Go Has a Fundamental Concept Problem

PSP Go Launches in Japan, DSi Still on Top

The PSP Minis Will Stride to Overcome the Originality-Quality Compromise

Analyze That: FIFA 10 Is the Fastest Selling Sports Game

Peter Moore Challenges Obama to Fitness Face Off

Peter Moore Talks About Downloadable Madden, Cricket Games

EA Sports' Peter Moore Responds to UFC Boss' Accusations

Metacritic Scores Irrelevant for Nintendo Wii Videogames

User opinions:

No user comments yet.
Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

Your Name:
Your Email Address:
(will not be used for commercial purposes)
Solve this to prove you're not a bot: =
Your review/opinion:

 




Windows tabGames tabDrivers tabMac tabLinux tabScripts tabMobile tabHandheld tabGadgets tabNews tab

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   ENTER NEWS SITE   |   ENGLISH BOARD   |   ROMANIAN FORUM