AbsolutSurgen Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 EA CEO: We’re Looking at Key Franchises to Deliver Cross-Platform Play Similarly to Fortnite "During the latest investors call after this quarter’s earnings report, EA CEO Andrew Wilson spoke (transcript via Seeking Alpha) about the company’s plans to investigate cross-platform play for key franchises in the near future, after Fortnite’s success paved the way for it. Quote In terms of cross-platform play, again we are seeing the same thing. And remember, we have a vision on a 3- to 5-year time horizon where a great portion of game experience will exist in the cloud and be pushed to every device you own. And the game experience you have won’t be measured by local CPU or GPU but will be measured by screen size and session time you have, and will drive tremendous liquidity in the market – in a player base. And I think we are to deliver very different types of experiences as a result of a cloud gaming offering. In the near term, you should also appreciate that we’re looking at key franchises in terms of how we could deliver cross-platform players in a similar way that Fortnite has, especially some of the titles have a broad and diverse player base. Households typically have one console, so the ability to bring PC to console and console to mobile into that play experience can bring families together, can bring friends together. And we think it’s an important part of our future development profile both in terms of mobile games that we have today moving up per se to console and PC, and console and PC games being playable in mobile. And so, I expect more from us on that front in the future. Wilson noted that this could be a particular fit for titles that have a “broad and diverse player base”. This could certainly be the case for sports titles, for example." I still believe that internet infrastructure and latency will be a huge barrier to widescale adoption of the game streaming strategy. Not everyone lives in San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Crossplay Madden and Fifa incoming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Battlefield And now we've named all of EA's games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 54 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Battlefield And now we've named all of EA's games! They also have Star Wars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 3 hours ago, Remarkableriots said: They also have Star Wars! But how many times can they screw it up? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said: But how many times can they screw it up? 37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdyb1 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Meaning EA is looking for that Fornite way of making money and fix their image but they will still screw it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 39 minutes ago, Hurdyb1 said: Meaning EA is looking for that Fornite way of making money and fix their image but they will still screw it up. I bet they're banking on Anthem being that game for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 58 minutes ago, Hurdyb1 said: Meaning EA is looking for that Fornite way of making money and fix their image but they will still screw it up. Open a lootbox for crossplay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdyb1 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: I bet they're banking on Anthem being that game for them. It can be if they can let the selfish nature go but I can't see EA ready to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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