silicon on 10 February 2011
Here's a link to a podcast to a talk by Nick Earl (VP and General Manager of EA):
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1579
Even though the talk is from 2007 (before the release of PS3 and Wii) it does contain some interesting information:
- Average age of gamers 29
- 40% of gamers are female
- Failed Predictions - free games funded by paid advertising
- Importance of the mobile market
- Predicting correctly that it's hard to compete with Nintendo software on Wii
etc.
Even though it may be a bit dated, it helps understand some of the choices that game developers have made in the passed few years.
If anyone else has any interesting links to podcasts or seminar talks, please post them!!!
