Very badly written and deceptive article (the one linked to in the original post). Nowhere in it did they have a direct quote from an EA representative confirming such a claim.

In fact the entire article is just someone talking out of their ass and using Sony's VP of product marketing, Scott Steinberg, speculation as fact.

Seriously people should at least read over the links they post on here, especially ones that have nothing to back them up. Otherwise it will end up putting their own credibility into question.

Good.

Now PS3 will get crappy port shovelware.

EA need to focus on making Fifa 09 the best yet. Thats all i ask EA

Good news for ps3 hopefully they can make great games.

People should read this post haha.  Because that's exactly what the article is.  I'ts not even EA saying this but purely speculation from a blogger.

@Zucas

Actually he quotes OPM's info about the lead platform for Mirrors edge and Dead Space

Crap.. now even the 360 games will get affected by those unforseen PS3 delays.

Which has nothing to do what the topic title is suggesting. 

The point is this is not an official statement from EA or really EA saying anything.  All it is is speculating that EA shifting lead focus from 360 to PS3 on multiplatform games because some recent titles use the PS3 as the lead platform.  Otherwise this is a blogger speaking an opinion on a situation with only an OPM comment on development and leading from there. 

I'ts misleading though that so many people are taking this as EA shifting all resources to PS3 as lead platform and making the multiplat 360 games simply ports when clearly that isn't stated.

And what people like you fail to recognize is that the 360 has a significantly larger install base. If the two had equal install bases at the point that compairison was made the PS3 would be outselling the 360, obviously.

For the Topic, good for EA on finally getting the hint. Now they can have Quality across all platforms, and not a good game on the 360, a buggy game on the PS3 and no game on the Wii... oooohOOOooOhOo

Writing a game to the greater restrictions of the parallel PS3 will benefit the parallel nature of the 360 as well. Honestly, the amount of sloppy, over-abstracted, OO-code that gets dumped into modern-day games is staggering, and the fact the Sony forces a lower-level mentality on the devs is the reason why many PS2 games (like God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchet & Clank, etc.) looked so darn good, despite the hardware being "lesser" than the competition.

Its a "survival of the fittest" way to look at it, but the consumer will get better games for both the PS3 and 360 from EA, as the outcome of this decision, and, as a "side benefit" (if you can call it that), many of the less capable technical teams will get weeded out of making games.