inFamous Second Son Leading Titanfall In Social Metrics, EA Sorry For Not Bringing Titanfall To PS4

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blessedswine on 17 March 2014

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

blessedswine said:

superchunk said:
Meh on second son info.

EA deal was based on an estimation that XBO and PS4 would be similar in sells and X360 owns NA where FPS dominates. It was a safe risk to make and ask for $$$ cash to cover the assumed range of PS sales.

That's a risk every company makes with exclusives. Unfortunately EA drank the MS cool-aid and that shit had a bad aftertaste. Now PS4 is dominating world-wide and while Titanfall will surely do well and be profitable, EA realizes they could have made significantly more by making it non-exclusive.

All this will do in the long run is prevent anyone from really wanting to go exclusive, especially on MS hardware. However, if PS4 keeps selling at this near-Wii and PS2 pace while Wii U and XBO stagnate, expect to see 3rd parties overwhelmingly willing to go exclusive on PS4 over the next few years.

This coming holiday will likely seal that fate.

EA could always do what capcom did to Nintendo during the gamecube era with its "exclusive" games and decide its better to break the contract and sell thier games on competing hardware.

If EA broke the contract, they would make the money lost by the suit in about a week worst case scenario.

I think the PR would be more damaging in this day and age, but then again EA has been voted worst company in america twice in a row.

i dont know if the PR would be damaging at all to EA it would be more damage to MS, and i could see the headlines about EA not believeing in the X1 sales ability and so on.

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Goddbless on 18 March 2014

Blood_Tears said:

Goddbless said:

gigantor21 said:

Talal said:

"Sony also used it’s own metrics in a meeting with EA last week and showed them what they would have sold on the ps3 and ps4. The money EA took from MS doesn’t even begin to cover it. The EA guys went over the math and agreed. EA is in full ‘We’re so f**king sorry, Sony’ mode currently.”

This feels like bullshit to me honestly.

Famousmortimer isn't exactly known for his evenhandedness. I prefer Sony consoles and I still don't like him.

Also, "social metrics"? Really? Why not something actually relevant, like better pre-order numbers or something?

I was thinking that the whole time I read the article.

You read the article?

"On being asked to explain the metrics, Dodd listed YouTube numbers. “YouTube views. Twitter mentions. Preorders."

I didn't see any numbers for preorders...

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method114 on 18 March 2014

Talal said:

Munkeh111 said:

Talal said:

"Sony also used it’s own metrics in a meeting with EA last week and showed them what they would have sold on the ps3 and ps4. The money EA took from MS doesn’t even begin to cover it. The EA guys went over the math and agreed. EA is in full ‘We’re so f**king sorry, Sony’ mode currently.”

This feels like bullshit to me honestly.

Why?

When they agree to Titanfall on the Xbox One, EA will have basically demanded compensation for the PlayStation sales. Since then, the PS3 and to a greater extent PS4 have had higher sales than anticipated

I'm more excited about inFamous and I'm sure there are plenty more who are too, but twitter isn't very representitive of the wider audience

EA doesn't need a meeting with Sony to know they missed out on lots of sales. That's why I think the story is bullshit.

Your assuming the meeting was just about Titan Fall and how they missed out. Also while EA might have known they missed out I'm sure Sony wanted to make sure they knew just because that's smart buisness. Let's not pretend EA is some super smart company that never makes stupid mistakes.

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method114 said:

Your assuming the meeting was just about Titan Fall and how they missed out. Also while EA might have known they missed out I'm sure Sony wanted to make sure they knew just because that's smart buisness. Let's not pretend EA is some super smart company that never makes stupid mistakes.

Wait, they make mistakes?! I though it was just that consumers were wrong!

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sales2099 on 18 March 2014

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

method114 said:

Your assuming the meeting was just about Titan Fall and how they missed out. Also while EA might have known they missed out I'm sure Sony wanted to make sure they knew just because that's smart buisness. Let's not pretend EA is some super smart company that never makes stupid mistakes.

Wait, they make mistakes?! I though it was just that consumers were wrong!

Consumers are wrong, but their money is right....if that makes sense.

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