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mike_intellivision on 13 October 2008

Is there a link or any other source than an on-line show?

And this would be the worst time to get into the console wars. The market has never supported more than three consoles since the Crash of 1984. And no one knows when the global economic conditions will improve.

Plus, EA's biggest cash cows are its sports franchises -- and it is commonly thought that those have to be multi-platform by contract.

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RSEagle on 13 October 2008

There's no way, they'd make a lot less money because their games would be reaching far fewer consumers.



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SMcc1887 on 13 October 2008

i really think EA will launch a console.... And That Sony and M$ could team up.



Xen on 13 October 2008
SMcc1887 said:
i really think EA will launch a console.... And That Sony and M$ could team up.

You're completely wrong in both cases.

 



bardicverse on 13 October 2008

I was thinking the other day, that there's someone much bigger than EA regarding a possible newcomer to the console market. Sure, Apple might, but I thought of someone who's growing even bigger - Google. Think about it. THey're spreading their wings far faster than MS did in the 90s. They're getting into in-game ads. I can see them branching out and making their own system. God knows they have the money to do such



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megaman79 on 13 October 2008

Was MS particularly successful as a software company reaching into video game consoles? No, Google will fuck it up just like their mobile phone won't do much business.

This is an interesting debate, why did Sony do as well as they did? Why should toy manufacturers (sega) be more relevent to console design? What the hell did Nintendo do before videogames? make playing cards?

I dk, maybe Sony did aswell as they did because their experience in industrial design gave them the console / controller design edge.



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muubam on 13 October 2008

... Maybe they're wanting to release a Sims/spore/nfs specific graphics card?



bardicverse on 13 October 2008
megaman79 said:
Was MS particularly successful as a software company reaching into video game consoles? No, Google will fuck it up just like their mobile phone won't do much business.

This is an interesting debate, why did Sony do as well as they did? Why should toy manufacturers (sega) be more relevent to console design? What the hell did Nintendo do before videogames? make playing cards?

I dk, maybe Sony did aswell as they did because their experience in industrial design gave them the console / controller design edge.

Sony had a different edge - they already were into consumer electronics (and I think computers too) prior to the Playstation consoles. So they already were used to producing electronics and especially CD players (and eventually DVD players too). I think of all the companies around, Sony had the biggest advantage going into the field.

 



kingofwale on 13 October 2008

wait wait..... 3D0-2 is coming out?? Oooh, i love the first one.


I shall be one of 3 people getting that console this time around.



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HappySqurriel on 13 October 2008

I could be wrong but I suspect that EA would not be trying to make a console that would compete directly with the current (or next) generation consoles ...

If I was EA I would focus on making a very inexpensive ($50) console with very inexpensive ($10) software that has strong piracy protection and plan to sell it in India and China. The point of this is to build a strong brand so that (over the next couple of decades) when 100,000,000+ consoles are sold in India and China your system is the one people buy.