Well, while it's not the push of a panic button, but you've gotta wonder what he means by this statement?  Some would have you believe that all is swell is PS3 land, it's interesting what EA's concern in approaching development on the PS3. 

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-exec-crosses-fingers-for-sonys-future

I know in the past, EA has stated that PS3 would be the lead console:

http://gamer.blorge.com/2008/08/04/ea-focus-on-ps3-as-lead-platform-for-game-development/

But this was all based on EA's perception that PS3 would start to dominate the 360, and eventually the Wii:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-expects-ps3-to-outsell-360-in-2008

Well...the 360 got a timely price cut to boost the heck out of the holiday season, but it also received a slew of content that really helped to push consoles.  With that said, the console was still on track to top EA's estimates, and 2008 probably provided M$ with a big stick to bash a weakened EA over the head, for publicly making those estimates in early 2008.  Looking at some franchises like Mass Effect...if I was M$, I'd play hardball like hell with EA to keep it exclusive for as long as possible.  No exclusive, not “privileged status” at launched…see Gears of War Franchise for the benefits of such a label.  In actuality, Mass Effect was published by M$, so given the tight finances at EA, it benefits them to keep it that way, and avoid adding more cost to the launching of the game.

Interesting.

I never understood by EA thought the PS3 would pull off Wii-like numbers in the past. It's not the PS2, nor is it the Wii.

Regardless, EA will milk the multiplatform cow for all it's worth.

As far as Mass Effect franchise, that's a horse of another color.

All EA does is port 360 games to the PS3, its not like they make them from the ground up for PS3. I don't see why they're complaining.

@Neptune

Their secretly Sony fanboys.

did you check out the links?

Many engineers have stated that an engine developed on the PS3 ports much easier, and in the end is faster on both platforms, than an engine developed on the 360 and ported to the PS3.

Makes the engineers think in terms of multithreaded performance from the get-go, and thats not a bad thing.

I was under the impression that was the reason EA was moving to the PS3, as their in-house lead console...

Precisely CGI...it WAS suspose to be, and that is why EA expressing some level of concern is not just passing chatter, but a real concern for Sony. While EA based this decision on the understanding and belief that it's easierto port from ps3 to PC/360, they also based it on a financial perspective that PS3 will start to dominate and overtake the 360 in 2008. In these tight fiscal times, it becomes easier for M$ to leverage exclusive deals with publishers, since locked in revenue is better than some projected sales revenues...see one Mirror's Edge.

LINK!?!?!

I posted one of them in my OP...maybe some posters with serious gaming programming will be able to validate this, but game have a long development cycle of years, and iin reading the link I posted, my udnerstanding is that EA had planned to start shifting more on games moving forward in 2008.  Now, did that happen...dunno...and based on some how strong 360 is preforming...maybe not.  At least not on everything, since it's a matter of allocation of resources, since the guys doing the PC games can probably do the 360 port with little problem...but ps3 has different methodologies, and so that means you need more developers verse in that to allow parallel development.  I might be wrong in this, since I'm not much of a programmer, but I'm prretty darn good at project mgmt, if I say so myself...lol...finite resources with infinite requirements...

The... question... was... what? :o

Well, as I have said before. I would love to play around with PS3(or more like CELL), but I wouldn't want to make anything bigger for it(not that I don't have skills ;) ). Its not that easy to port PC games for X360. X360 just can't do some things(Not even some things that original Xbox can do.).