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Pachter: EA Bet On The Wrong Horse

-Damien- · 2014-03-04 05:05:42

http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/articles/653445-analyst-titanfall-2-wont-be-xbox-exclusive-former-ea-ceo-thought-ms-would-kick-sonys-butt-next-gen serves you well EA....I think this might be the last exclusive you see for a long long time that's third party. I think [EA], had they known at the time when they made they made the decision to go exclusive Xbox, had they known that the Xbox One was going to be $100 more than the PS4 I think they wouldn't have done it. I think that they believe that Microsoft was going to kick Sony's butt this cycle. Pachter continued with a startling discovery:I am quoting John Riccitiello (former EA CEO) back in 2012 who told me that he thought that Microsoft was going to eat Sony's lunch the next cycle. But we all thought so because we thought that Xbox 360 had a large, loyal install base and multiplayer and we thought that Sony would price [the PS4] about the same as the Xbox, but we didn't think Xbox One would be $500. I frankly thought they were both going to be 400 and the possibility that the Xbox One would be 350. I thought Microsoft might be that bold. They made a mistake and they priced too high and I think that caught everybody by surprise. So I haven't talked to John Riccitiello about this since, but it's pretty clear that at a $100 price advantage Sony is going to beat out Xbox until the price is the same.

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bforrester420

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#201 bforrester420

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@Salt_The_Fries said:

If PS4 is generation 8, then PC is generation 9. But anyway, anyone who'll have the chance to play Titanfall should be in CLOUD 9 regardless of platform!

Gamers win, fanboys lose!

Unless you hate multiplayer FPS...

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#203 Edited By Murderstyle75

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@sts106mat:

GTA certainly could have been held back and ported. Especially with how much easier it is to develop on these consoles.

You also mention Gears and Uncharted even though both these games released a year after launch and neither game had the capability to run on previous gen hardware. These were true next gen games and the Xbox 360 had triple the userbase for the first Gears then the X1 has for Titanfall.

And regardless of COD"a current sales, even Ghosts has sold better on the 360 then any Gears game but has sold like shit on both next gen platforms.

A lot of people seem to think the Xbox One consists strictly of an army of multiplayer FPS fans which couldn't be any further from the truth. There are also a whole lot if people who backlashed against Microsofts always online and 24 hour check in who won't be in the market for titanfall regardless of their genre of choice.

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