EA CFO claims that the next-generation of consoles will not be backwards compatible
During a QA session at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen offered some insight into the future of video games from EA’s perspective. Highlights included the cost of transition to a new console, adoption rate, and the used game quandary; but one thing in particular stood out.
Now being a realist and seeing how game distribution is evolving into more of a service, that doesn’t surprise me much. But with the previous generation being the complete opposite of this, it is a bit of change the industry may not be prepared for.
I also think it is funny how EA must not consider the Wii U to be a “next-gen” console. The writing is on the wall Nintendo. Now head over to Gamasutra and read Frank Cifaldi's full article!
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darkhyrulelord
Good thing that this was proven to be false.
ZMowlcher
Nintendo is just greatness personified. Nintendo? More like Wintendo.
Dramoc
This makes me glad I'm mostly only a PC gamer now and buy PC only. Wii U would be the only system I might buy, Nintendo is great in giving us old games on their consoles and you can play Wii games on it still (sad Gamecude games won't, but will be available for download). These game companies will bomb with all their new ideas they coming out with, like not being able to run used games ext. I'll stick to mostly F2P MMO's, steam and World of Warcraft because I feel like I get more bang for my buck. My consoles right now are mostly dust collectors.
sr101
The Wii U is great because it stays away from the "greedy" next gen, and just innovates. Now, bring on some more games! (lol)
Gedillt
I have a Wii with over 80 VC games, is backwards compatible with about 9 Gamecube games I have on top of the 10 Wii games I have. An N64 with 18 games and a NES with 7. A PS2 with 5 games, 13 PS1 games, a 360 with 11 retail games and about 15 XBLA games. A PS3 with 4 retail games and 5 PSN games, and a 3DS with 1 DS game, 2 3DS games, and 9 VC games. Not counting collections like Mega Man X Collection and Sonic's UGC. Plus there are plenty of games for those systems I have yet to get; I'm in NO hurry go move on to the next genereation.
Ruzlok
Hopefully, this is only for EA games, if at all.
MalusCalibur
No backwards compataiblity eh? Even more reason for me not to buy into the next console generation, then.
Shooter McGavin
Your mom is on the wall, Sean.
Illier1
I wasn't planning on buying the next gen straight on release anyway. With few games and consoles likely to be buggy and damaged I will wait until Sony and Microsoft fix the bugs. I still have a nice sized list of games on the PS3 I still want to play. I can;t imagine why they won't make games backwards compatible. It was a selling point for me with the PS2, is it really going to cost them that much money?
yggdra324
Well, EA if you can't prove it, then shut the fuck up.