PS3 owners waiting for quality titles to arrive, says EA
- Posted November 15th, 2007 at 07:59 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 37 Comments
Electronic Arts’ Vice President and General Manage for UK, Keith Ramsdale, has gone on record to suggest that owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console are intent on waiting for quality software to arrive, but forecast a prosperous future for the next-generation videogames machine.
"If you look at FIFA 08, on its first weekend the PS3 numbers were 75 per cent of the Xbox 360 numbers, despite the 360 having a massively higher install base”, Ramsdale told Gamesindustry.biz this week.
"That's not that the 360 has underperformed, not for a moment. That's because the appetite for a quality game on the PS3 is there and maybe FIFA is the first game to come and show where the quality is."
"I think PS3 consumers are waiting for the right game and they want to see the quality."
Ramsdale also observed the recent price cut, recognising it as a critical decision in Sony’s plans for the console, adding, "Of course the hardware sales increased dramatically when the price cut happened and that's absolutely part of it. Ray Maguire said himself that they were planning that, it was part of their strategy and I absolutely understand that.
"But what I would say is that the software sales against a hardware install base on a good game like FIFA - the PS3 outpunches its weight in attachment to the hardware. So now the price drop has happened, the hardware is going to grow, and we're in for a great time."
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tiestofore |
xFire26- 8:04am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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well maybe if EA would take a page from infinity ward and make some DECENT games then they would get more software sales!
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tretormenn |
Berae- 8:21am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Waiting for quality? Yeeees. But not from EA. shut up keith and focu on make your developers work on quality games instead of quality garbage.
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JMedders
- 8:28am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Quality games? There are currently 5 new/soon to be released title available that I want to add to my list, 2 are PS3 exclusives. Must people won’t tend to buy that amount of software at any one time. I don’t see that as waiting for good games more waiting to get paid so I can order them a few of them.
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Mike_Harradence
- 8:30am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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So ironic, is it not? He cites FIFA as a quality title, when in fact they have gone down in history as the exact opposite.
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ldksparda21 |
Karamo- 8:56am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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I think he is right about that, thats what i have always said
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Drazden
- 8:59am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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I love a good footy.... but Fifa 08 is far from quality... These clowns at EA need to give their head a shake if they think porting a game created for one system is quality... Do your Homework EA! you guys are at the bottom of the list right now and that list is getting longer by the minute!
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Muzikguy |
Muzikguy- 9:06am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Waiting for quality games? That's funny because I have 10 games now and probably 3 more by year's end. I don't have enough time to play them all yet, but so far all of them (except Oblivion) are getting a lot of my spare time. I will say though, that COD4 is an impressive game.
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frank_magnet |
Frank_Magnt- 9:09am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Oblivion has done a good job keeping me occupied!
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D3v1lwqer23 |
djrussell89- 10:05am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Guess they never seen or heard of Call of Duty 4
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Untildeath89 |
willmakenewonesoon- 10:42am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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there are games with so many times fifa's quality its b/c people in eu like football and they didnt have any other next g en but this, and btw make a quality game that is worthy of 9 and then u can trash the rest but before that please look at ps3 games before u call fifa "quality game"
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Triple Dk |
TripleDk- 11:07am GMT - November 15th, 2007
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Ahh, come on!! There have already been numerous AAA titles!! And they just keep dropping by!! I'm actually spending a lot of my time planning what to use my hard earned money on! And i don't got so much... i only got 2 games, NGS and the newest: R&C Tools of Destruction!!! :) (Of some reason, they removed Future out of the european title... what's up with that!?)
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Soviet-Messiah |
Soviet-Messiah- 5:29pm GMT - November 15th, 2007
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"...maybe FIFA is the first game to come and show where the quality is." ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG the arrogance, the audacity, the sheer hutzpah! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WOW That almost made me cry! EA........quality........I cant stop laughing. I see now why EA games suck so bad, they really are THAT stupid!!!!!
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PS3sR2DEAR
- 4:02am GMT - November 16th, 2007
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Why dont Game Companies listen to their Player/Customers ?
I constantly hear of fantastic ideas for all games, yet none come to fruition !
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 4:19am GMT - November 16th, 2007
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Good thing he realized that we prefer quality over quantity.At least mostly we do.
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