EA Reaping Tremendous Windfalls from Digital Sales
Battlefield's ability to sell game content online carried over to Bad Company 2 as well. Brown said that the waves of downloadable content released for the game kept its revenue stream producing. And they still have the Vietnam DLC pack due up this month, targeted specifically to go after the Call of Duty: Black Ops market.
It's not all shooters, either. Even FIFA got in on the act with gamers spending, "$500, $600, $700 on digital card packs," Brown said.
Based on these successes, expect EA to continue its push using regular releases of its core brands as the springpad from which to launch additional content online. As Brown says, "We think we're growing most rapidly in DLC for the console ... we think digital starts with the disc and the high-definition platforms."
-
Walterbennet
reply>>"We've at least in part kind of cracked the code..."
How many more qualifiers can we strap onto this statement? Let's see...
"We've at least, in part, kind of, in due course, possibly, potentially, in our own way, nonetheless, essentially, I think, if-I-may-be-so-forward-as-to-say, very likely, cracked the code..."
And seriously... no 1943 on PC... seriously? Why?-
I would guess lack of 1943 on PC has to do with timing.
-
-
It makes so much sense. Make a modern-day, compact homage to a hugely successful PC shooter and, for the love of god, don't ever release it on the PC.
-
-
-
-
That would make me buy BC2, begrudgingly. I would not put it past the bastards at EA either.
-
It would be smart of them to do this, but with a few more maps and polish than the console 43. I want some of the desert action and my mobile artillery back, I'm ok with it taking a while, as long as they do 42 some justice.
-
-
