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Please buy more 360’s

Submitted by Shane on February 10, 2006 – 4:26 pmComments

winxabox360.jpgIf more 360’s were sold, perhaps I’d have a job at EA by now?

I guess that’s the message I’m getting from the latest news that EA has let go hundreds due to lack of Next Gen sales. I’m not surprised though, it happens right? It’s all about generating the all mighty cash. Have you seen The Corporation? Great movie and all put together here in my city. After watching that flick, it all makes sense to me. So supposedly, If M$ made more Xbox 360’s to meet the demand, game companies like EA wouldn’t be forced to hand out pinkslips. My opinion is that there’s just too much gaming saturation lately; too many companies churning out games, not enough gamers. I liken it to my profession: too many tech schools churning out “Web/Graphic Designers” = not enough work to go around.

I’m somewhat disapointed though. I’ve been a passionate gamer my whole life. Let’s see I’m 30 now, I’ve been gaming since Pong, so about 25-27 years. I’m a Graphic Designer with a passion for games, so a job at EA would’ve been perfect for me. Well not even after 5, yes 5 interviews can I get in. I feel like I’m somewhere between my foot in the door and actually working there. It’s not fair actually, why bother wasting their and my time? It’s a tease. I’m not putting anyone down here, they tried hard to get me in, and I appreciate that. It was all just bad timing and some major head counting/shuffling going around. That’s life though, you have to play the game, right?

  • I agree Scy, they were indeed rushed. It's a race against time for the game companies from the time they get the dev kits to their "expected" game release date.

    I think it depends on the game and the licensing deals as to which game gets priority on which platform. I think it's a lot more cost-effective to develop a game on the PC then a console. Perhaps there's a lot more money to be spent on migrating a game to a console as well. So maybe that's the reason why they cost more? I'm not really sure.

    Kenny, yes you're right. Although I just read that 360's will always be available when you enter a store now. We'll see!
  • Kenny
    I sympathtise but even though you said it yourself, people can't buy more simply because there aren't any 360s available for purchase. Its just stupid.
  • Scy
    honestly i dont think its the lack of 360s out there that caused EA's losses this year. Its the dissappointing overpriced games EA rushed out. FIFA for x360 was a disaster, NHL was barely distinguishable from the current gen versions, Madden didn't meet the target video and lacked some features present in the current gen versions, Tiger woods doesn't look too promising and NBA live, while looking fabulous, was again lacking some features.
    microsoft is partly to blame - rushing the 360 out cut down development cycles. And then alot of gamers don't appreciate certain aspects of early next-gen such as soft/self shadowing, better antialiasing, shaders etc. so you've got people on forums comparing stuff like alan wake to gta san andreas.
    best of luck trying to break into EA, keep trying it'll get better a couple of months or a year into the ps3/rev launches when most games will look more like what the avg consumer expects from next gen.

    ps. i've never understood this, a new pc game which looks like a next-gen console game costs the same as a current gen console game. production costs MUST be higher for these games, then why are we expected to pay premiums for next gen games that look the same?
  • Thanks! :-)
  • Hard luck, man. Keep playing, you'll score big eventually. ;-)
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