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EA says "1 of every 3 PS4 games sold is an EA game"

Electronic Arts provides one-fifth of the titles available for PS4, and leads in sales.

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Peter Moore, the current chief operating officer of Electronic Arts, wrote over Twitter today that "1 of every 3 PS4 games sold is an EA game."

Of the 25 games currently available for PS4, five are from EA, including Battlefield 4, FIFA 14, Madden NFL 25, NBA Live 14, and Need for Speed: Rivals.

Despite the apparent popularity of EA's lineup, users have recently criticized the online performance of many EA titles. While some problems are clearly outside the company's power to control, like the recent DDoS attack on Battlefield 4, it's unclear who is at fault for the other issues. A quickly deleted post on the Electronic Arts help site attributed the stability problems to Sony's firmware, but the post was later deleted with the statement that it was made in error.

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Tells you how bad Sony's launch lineup is which is why I'm waiting and getting an Xbox one first. Go ahead say what you want but look at last gen my PS3 collected dust for the first 2 years.

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First two years with ps3: most boring high tech box in the world.

2008 with the ps3: GTA4 and MGS4...most boring-but somehow not so boring anymore-box.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I agree 100%. My PS3 has been gathering dust for years. And everytime I give Sony a chance - I'm punished with a 2 hour system & game update.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I'm staunchly anti sony and all of their praised exclusives are incredibly mediocre, but my PS3 doesn't collect dust . I think that's because I've only had it 10 months though, so I'm still working on games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> The PS3 has the best exclusives IMO. The Xbox has had some good ones too but most of my favourite games over the past 6 years have been PS3 exclusives; Uncharted1,2 & 3; InFamous; Demons Souls; MGS4 and The Last of Us to name a handful. In fact the last two are probably two of my favourite games of all time!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> The Xbone's line up isn't really any stronger. The only real quality game looks like Forza 5 and if you're not into driving games then there's no difference at all.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> If you base your entire gaming on review scores in which case you're a moron and not a real gamer. Dead Rising 3 is just as fun as the other games. Killer Instinct is actually lauded by real fighting game players and confirmed to be good. Ryse IDK but again if you listen to reviews or even opinions, you're dumb.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Not sure entirely what your point is, but while reviews are subjective, the whole idea of them is to be useful to consumers. The problem isn't necessarily being dumb for listening to a review, it's not gaining enough consensus from sources before making decisions.

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i dint buy n e ea game - never did and never will - mofos always rippin ppl off

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You have never played Burnout 3: Takedown - arguably the best racing game ever made!?!

You sir, are no gamer.


Oh, and I call BS anyway.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Hail burnout!

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Hail Burnout!!!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah because you wont judge game by its quality ,you are only some other game companys" slave ,have fun of your games

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I would agree with you if it was any other company, but tell me which great, innovative game did EA bring to the market in say... the last 5 years? I can't remember one, sure, Dragon Age: Origins, was alright and so was the first Mass Effect. Mirror`s Edge was different, but they scrapped that for many years (almost scrapping it totally) just because it didn`t meet their sales point.

Beyond that we have Battlefield, which one or two comes per year. Then we have sports franchises and need for speed, then we have Sim City which they went and destroyed by making it online, The Sims and... oh yeah, Titanfall is coming, it may end up being a great game, but behind all the shinny its a futuristic Battlefield. And all that without mentioning micro transactions, day one dlc's, season passes, bad DRM and bugged games at release just so can they make the deadline.

But truly, EA is not alone, we have Activision/Blizzard which dispense commentaries, we have Bethesda whose most of the shitty goes under the rug just because their games are moddable, Ubisoft which has got a lot better lately, but still kept the same disgusting practices as EA. There's more, there's way more, but I'll keep at that.


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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Dead Space 1 and 2 both. Dante's Inferno too. They weren't "innovative" necessarily but they were great games.

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Congrats EA you should be happy that your games are better then Knack

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I have NGage games better than Knack.

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Snake II > Knack...Snake I is so so.

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I wouldn't buy any of these games EA.

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Sorry EA, I didn't buy any of your games.

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Yeah, of course you'll say that NOW, when there are only 14 PS4 launch titles. I'd like to see them saying this in a few years.

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This is the reason why the gaming industry is pure garbage. Any asshat that supports EA or any other equally evil company, activision/blizzard and ubisoft, should be considered a traitor to gaming and should not be associated with.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You don't play EA, Ubi, Activision? You trying to be edgy? What the hell do you play then? Terrible indi games that are 1 out of 100 that'll be decent?

"hey, look how cool I am - I don't play major released games!"

Bull.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I agree with your sentiment in-so-far as gamers should realize that supporting an anti IP, anti developer, anti consumer Publisher like EA will only remain as powerful as they are as long as we keep giving them money through game purchases, DLC and micro-transactions.Continuing to finance them is GIVING them permission to continue in those practices.

Problem is that casual and softcore gamers have no idea what i'm talking about though, in fact they think im looney. The Irony :)

(BTW you online "whales" are doing the game industry no favors either.........once again a statement only core/hardcore gamers will understand)

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Sad as it is your claim is truth. Though not sure what you mean by the whales but I think it's the casuals and softcore gamers that are really ruining the industry by contributing to these asshat companies.

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@Banefire76 @xeoneex66

Microtransactions work 'cause it's money gained out of convenience and the way the system is set up. You CAN play a F2P game completely without forking over any cash, but depending on the game, you're either feeling left out, are severely nerfed in some way or you're left with a shallow game that has no redeeming quality to its name.

The only way to "freedom" from AAA games or F2P MMOs are indies IMO (and their devs) that evolve over time to a new full fledged, fleshed-out game. Then again, that might be a devil's circle in and of its self.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> No, just about 10k need for speeds and their shitty sports "franchise" and I use that loosely simply cause it's nothign more than minor re-iterations every release.

Actually to really further your point it's not just about lack of good IP's from this company, it's the fact they swallow up smaller game companies, gut them spit out the bones and leave the carcass to rot. BioWare comes to mind...

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Regarding "whales" (people who spend thousands on online microtransactions in one game) Publishers like EA see the crazy amount of money F2P/MMO games make through addictive microtransactions/Pay-to-win methods and instead of protecting the integrity of the IP's they "acquire", (single player/co-op story based games) they twist them into forms they ought not to be to chase the amount of money being made by appealing to "whales". (Eg. Making "Star wars the old republic" instead of making KOTOR 3.) When these IP's were made popular in the first place (therefore desirable to acquire as IP's) because of how they were developed before acquisition.

Sure it makes good business sense (in the short run), but does not evolve the craft of making great IP's with a rich and well curated lineage (long term goal/rewards)

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Oh dude ,so you mean the other all games except EA are gabbage?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Far far from it. Most of the games that have released this year that aren't on PC, and the ones that did release on console that are on pc, are all garbage. I sold my xbox 360, refuse to buy any new consoles and am sticking to Indie Dev games from kickstarter and the like. So tired of this crap oozing out of these deadbeat companies that need to hurry up and die, so we can rebirth the gaming industry.

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yeah? so you say , 33% of all customer got your online-pass?

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I'm sure they'll make a similar claim after the X1 is released since many of us were getting FIFA for free anyway...

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Which are 90% EA Sports games which look identical at every iteration.

The rest are just crap these days. Load of linear ass nonsense. Or in terms of BF just straight up boring.

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yes, ... and with shit quality control...

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so they are happy because they have 1 third of every PS4 game sold, when they have 1 fifth of the available games...

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Lol, I wanted to say this. Don't know why they're gloating about this. Most games available on PS4 now are EA games xD

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And I say 1 out of every 3 claims by EA are lies.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You're giving EA too much credit ;)

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Who Cares. Hurry up and make Dead Space 4.... and make it good like the first 2, not the last one.

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@scgarfield The third one didn't sell 5 million copies, so they won't make another game in the series for a while.

EA Logic.

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I says "3 of every 3 EA employees are greedy shitheads"

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It's because half the launch games are EA's and they're all the yearly releases everyone buys.

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Yes, we know you're one of the best publisher when it comes to milking franchises, no need to remind us.

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Please. Don't remind us.

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What's with all the stupid, "Well no shit, most of the games out on the ps4 are your games." Exactly..... How is that a bad thing for EA in any way and why does that neglect the fact 1 of every 3 games sold is EA's? Not the biggest fan of EA, but 1 of 3 right off the bat is amazing.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I don't think you get the point, of course they are selling more games and their share of games sold is bigger when every other company is just selling one game, the annoying thing is that with his comment:"Gamers are speaking...", he makes it sound like "Hey it was an equal fight and we won" which is just not true. It is annoying because all the "real" gamers know that EA is probably the worst company when it comes to gaming but to all the casual gamers and parents for example, people that don't know a lot about gaming in general, think hey this company must be great.

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well no need to sound like a total prick, EA.

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lol

that's bad for you. cause more than 1 in every 3 ps4 retail launch titles is made by you !

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For how many of the launch titles there were at launch and how many of them were EA games, 1 out of 3 isn't much to be bragging about.


Is the next headline going to be 100% of next gen sports games are EA games?

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Why people hate EA so much ?

Im getting BF4 and soon Dragon Age 3


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<< LINK REMOVED >> If you're getting BF4 on PC, you rather not, it's mostly just simply unplayable because it keeps crashing.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> well PS4 version then

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>

Same thing.

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