Does EA make games better or worse?

I'm sort of a tech nerd, not really but I'm always interesting in advances in tech and stuff. I was watching the tech demo for Backbreaker and this game pretty much exposes Madden for what it is imo. Of course EA has the money and the licensing so people are going to buy madden, but Backbreaker is so far ahead of anything madden is doing technically it's ridiculous. EA is also cashing in on the wii and the wiimote, with all their EA sports titles but if you look at the games themselves they actually have less production value and are dumbed down versions of past games. If you've ever seen the movie Idiocrisy am i that far off in thinking a lot of these developers are actuallly going backwards instead of forwards and taking things out of their games to make money? EA has always been really bad with that kind of stuff. I used to be a big fan of EA back in the day. They used to be the best but for the past decade or so they've gotten really bad.