Xbox and EA Deal - Worth it? Whats next?

[Shinobi-san]

J_Allard said:

Shinobi-san said:

J_Allard said:

whatever said:

Denying the obvious is equally boring.

Good thing I'm not denying anything here. Just wanted a quote from EA saying they expected the Xbox One to sell more.

An interview answer about projections for the "Xbox" and "Playstation" (which includes last gen and current gen consoles) is not that. Especially when, you know, they don't even actually say they expected the Xbox One to sell more in said quote LOL. But some people need to reach.

Again, they could have estimated this exact sales breakdown to happen and still done the deal based on whatever financial incentives MS provided. Which we have no idea about.

That is some seriously messed up reasoning you have there.

Why on earth would EA predict that X1 sells much less than PS4 and still go with a partnership with MS?

Its quite clear that the quote ehomaz posted indicates that EA thought X1 would be have a sales adavantage and thats why they went with them. How can you not see that?

Who said they predicted "much less" than PS4? No one ever said EA can't be surprised by how well the PS4 is selling. You people are really kidding yourselves if you don't believe that before making this deal for complete exclusive rights to the first game, EA wasn't aware of how much MS would charge for each console, how many territories they were launching in (or at least a good estimate) and the same information on Sony for the PS4. And that with this information, EA would still predict Xbone to outsell the PS4.

Maybe they still did though. Or maybe they just thought the Xbone would be ahead in the US. Or maybe they figured the PS4 would be ahead, but the amount of money either paid or kicked back to EA for the deal would offset sales projections for the game on PS3/PS4. It's funny how people harp on one part of the quote, about making the deal based on sales projections, but then ignore the last part, about how they still feel good about those predictions. Yeah sure sounds like they are totally shocked.

People keep implying EA said this in a factual manner. I wasn't aware they had so I asked for a quote. Of course I was right, they hadn't said it, and it's just agenda based spin on a comment.

So EA isnt shocked? And everything is going according to plan for MS/EA?

Like i said bad reasoning on your part.

Also the only person spinning the implications of the quote is you. You called it "agenda based spin" i believe.