14 DAY TRIAL // Peter Moore is now the soul of EA Sports. He's very active in talking about the developments at his company and also interested in laying out a vision related to gaming in general and to the sports simulation in particular. Recently he said, again, that the future of games distribution lied with digital download while also denying that EA Sports was working on a cricket title.
Peter Moore was interviewed by VG247 and the tough questions poured right in. Moore was not very specific about the way the world wide economic crisis had affected his company and he was a bit cagey when it came to the layoffs at EA Tiburon. But he was very happy to talk about the announcement that EA Sports made about not bringing some of its key franchises to the PC anymore.
To Moore, the decision made economic sense and allowed the publisher to focus on making the games it publishes as good as possible without having to focus on a platform hit by piracy and bringing only diminishing returns.
But one encouraging thing is that, with broadband penetration always increasing all over the world, the possibility now exists to deliver a lot of content to gamers via the Internet. EA Sports Active is already online and it could someday be used to get expansions and content packs to players. From there on, it's only a small step to go forward and get an entire videogame via EA Sports Active.
Moore explicitly stated that “You could say that when we’re ready to look at which franchises are going to be more applicable to be playing on the PC, we’ve said this repeatedly: it’s an online-based model. The actual structure of whether it’s browser-based, whether I give you a client, whether it’s subscription gaming, all of these things are yet to be determined” when asked whether the next Madden could come to the PC via download. And, for all those who are wondering, EA Sports is not yet ready to create another cricket videogame, despite huge demand.