Alrighty Starcraft.
First off, it's his opinion and some analyst that GTAIV will soften up Iron Man's sales. I won't get into it because frankly we'll never know whether it will or not, unless a massive countrywide poll is taken to see if people didn't watch Iron Man because they picked up GTAIV, which won't happen.
Then this quote:
“There is more interest today from Hollywood to make movies out of our games than there is interest in our industry to make games out of their movies,” EA’s chief continued. “There’s a big reset happening now.
This is obviously false. Many game companies survive off making movie tie-in games. There is not however one movie studio that has to survive off making game tie-in movies. Also games based off movie franchises move units. Transformers and SPiderman 3 were two very high selling games last year. Hitman did ok at the box office. I can name numerous examples just like this. In my opinion, games based off movies are higher quality on the whole than movies based off of games.
“The rate of change in this industry is massive… It feels like what movie moguls might have seen in the 1920s and said: ‘Hey, we’ve got talkies now, where is it going?’ I feel like we’ve stepped through a time window where our games are so compelling and seem so real.”
Games don't seem very real at all. In fact games have tackled very few topics that matter to any human being. Movies have tackled them all and continue to innovate year after year. Games are playing catch up and doing a lousy job. Call of Duty 4 is pretty realistic, but it isn't Letters From Iwo Jima, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan or even most mediocre war movies. Apply that to any other genre games and movies share and you'll get the same result.
Riccitiello also predicted that games will shortly be ranked as an art form alongside cinema, and stated his belief that EA can become the “one great company” of the interactive entertainment medium.
“I read a book on how every medium creates one great company: animation created Disney, CBS was created by radio, NBC by television.
“Interactive entertainment is going to determine one great company and I think it’s this one. One of the reasons I’ve come back is to try to take it to the next step.”
This is just a rediculous statement. Most mediums create many great companies, and gaming has already done that. If one could be picked though, it's obviously Nintendo. They are to gaming what Disney is to animation. This is John Riciteillo puffing his chest out because EA is within months of acquiring Take Two Interactive and nothing more.
Tag: Became a freaking mod and a complete douche, coincidentally, at the same time.
