News: EA Games: "We Need Cell Processor"

 

Here's a shocker.  Electronic Arts (the game studio that everyone loves to hate) CEO Gerhard Florin recently spoke a GameInddustry.biz reporter about the current and future state of the next generation consoles.

On the PS3's price, and the competition:

""Look at the price [of the PS3] in two years' time, and then you can say whether it's too high," stated Florin.  "The first two years will clearly be an open race, everybody will do very well. I believe all three [consoles] are worth supporting in different ways."

In attempting to create games for the three systems, Florin says that EA will focus different types of games on different systems.

"Shooters like Medal of Honor, Black, we will clearly concentrate on PlayStation 3 because we need Cell processor power."

The man comes across much more intelligently than people would have figured given the overall negative impression of EA Games in many gamers' minds.  Could this be the start of some much needed improvements at the development studio?  Definitely, developing games that make the most of each systems' hardware is a start.  Let's see if the games live up to the promise.

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