14 DAY TRIAL // Peter Moore continues to issue statements regarding the future of EA Sports, maybe the most important division that the gigantic publisher has, and is now talking about how difficult sports games should be in the future.
Moore talked to IGN and he stated: "With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're going to see there is about approachability. Not dumbing it down - but stuff that feels more adaptive, helping you get through the game."
The new head of EA Sports is sure that "our games have been too hard - and even hardcore gamers will tell us at times it's just too fricking hard to play a game without having to revert back to the manual to find out what to do. We need to change that."
Having played almost all FIFA and UEFA releases since back in 1998, after being inspired by the Football World Cup, I can testify that the football franchise has not suffered from an increased level of difficulty. If anything, the game has gotten easier and easier as the passing has become more assisted and the goalkeeper mechanics have begun to be handled more and more by the computer and not directly by the player.
It might be that EA Sports is trying to move away from the so-called "hardcore" sports gamers and more towards "casual" sports gamers. The recent announcement of the All Play initiative, which aims to bring sports games to the Nintendo Wii, bundled with peripherals, is clearly sending a signal in that direction.
Peter Moore also caused quite a controversy when he stated that the PC sports market was in sharp decline and that, even though FIFA 2009 would get a PC release, other significant franchises, including NBA and NHL, would only be developed for consoles. Again, this can be seen as a sign of the shift currently happening at EA Sports.