A major change? This Tuesday, October 29, Electronic Arts presented its financial results for the third quarter. With a turnover of 2.08 billion dollars, the publisher announced that it did not plan to release a new version of its sports games per year, as reported by the American magazine The Hollywood Reporter.
In a conference call with analysts, Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, indicated that the company was no longer looking to simply develop a game universe with unique characters for release and sale on limited platforms.
Service game
In other words, the publisher today seeks to develop video games for long periods of time, but also for increasingly connected ecosystems. Thus, its sports video game franchises would no longer be renewed on an annual or seasonal basis.
Electronic Arts could, for example, turn Madden NFL into a “football platform that serves all American football fans 365 days a year,” Andrew Wilson explained.
Therefore, the publisher could resort to the service game model, that is, a game that is regularly updated with new content, often paid, to keep players playing and spending money.
This is also a trend adopted by large publishers seeking stable and predictable income, rather than risking financial failure with a new title.
Source: BFM TV
