EA uses Ted Price to discount Console-Exclusive Games

Ever been browsing through gaming news, just picking a piece here and there to read? Only to stumble across a piece that just didn’t seem right. This time it was one of my favorite developer, Insomniac Games, President, Ted Price saying something frankly stupid.

Title Ted Price: Console-Exclusive Games “Possibly” a Thing of the Past on Playstation life style .net, I wasted no time in reading it and seeing the quote from Ted Price after being asked if console exclusive games were a thing of the past, that read:  It’s certainly possible. I mean, I can’t speak for first-party publishers. I believe that there are just more opportunities to get your IP out in front of a greater audience if you are on more platforms. So whether or not first-party exclusives continue is really up to those first-party publishers and whether or not they can find companies who are willing to restrict themselves to one platform.

However, if you look at the first-party publishers, it’s no longer about one platform. Sony has multiple platforms: PSP, Vita, PS3. And Microsoft has Xbox 360, Windows, and Windows Phone. So it used to be that, if you were working with a first-party, you really were on one console. Period. But that’s no longer the case either.

Something was afoot, and the first thought in my mind: Who’s publishing their next game. A quick visit to IGN revealed that it was none other than the infamous EA. Yes the same EA who used the Founders of Bioware to say that RPGs were dead as gamers didn’t want them anymore after Dragon Age 2 bombed among regular gamers and fans alike. In fact whenever a developer says something along these lines you can safely bet money that their next game is being published by EA.

Needless to say you shouldn’t take this as Ted Price’s opinion and more as the words of EA using Ted Price as a dummy in a ventriloquism act. Arguably a really good ventriloquism act but one all the same.

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