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noname2200 on 11 December 2009
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RVDondaPC said:
noname2200 said:

I'll leave the Wii issue aside for now (although they've recently reiterated their stance on that topic) and ignore the fact that they have not, to the best of my knowledge, made a single 360-exclusive game either.

The rest of your post may have some merit, although I suspect you're putting a few more words in Ricitello's mouth than he intended. Nonetheless, my original point stands: all three of the examples that you picked were poor examples. EA specifically lobbied Valve to let them create a PS3 port for the Orange Box: Valve had zero interest in porting the game and did next to nothing to help EA. The lack of Left4Dead on the PS3 can also be laid exclusively at Valve's feet; EA has no way of forcing Valve to let EA port the game. Finally, EA could not, under any circumstances, publish a PS3 version of the original Mass Effect, due to Microsoft's licensing of the console version.

You chose the three biggest examples where EA either WAS pro-PS3 or in which it could NOT do anything about the PS3 due to a third-party's actions. All I'm saying is that you would have been better served by citing other games in their stead.

I don't think there are any other games that are PS3 or 360 exclusive. Infact EA seems to hit up every console(or just about) with each of their games. Which makes it even dumber for them to put the blame on the failures of the PS3. My point was that it gave no exclusive support or content to the PS3, which makes one wonder about their comment of picking PS3 to be in first, yet showing absolutely no special treatment to back up such a comment.  I agree the games I chose were not the best examples but they are the only thing that really differentiates EA's support between the PS3 and the 360. I do agree that porting the Orange box is a sign of supporting the PS3, but really it's just a half assed catch up job to try to balance out an advantage that the 360 already had from Valve. 

With being the publisher of big 360 exclusives, regardless of who controls the IP, it would seem they have more eggs in the MS basket than the PS3. Yet they still blame the PS3. Also the quote may be admitting some guilt but if you pay attention to it what it's really saying is "we made a mistake, but it really wasnt our fault, the PS3 fucked up worse and it's their fault" Instead of saying "we failed to realize the potential of the Wii" they chose to say "We failed cuz the PS3 failed"

In terms of their placing the blame on the PS3, I tend to agree: I just want to reiterate that I was only making a narrow point. I think we're actually in agreement on this subject.