EA Wishes Activision Blizzard Good Luck; Still Feels Confident
By Chris on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 7:58 PM PST In Activision, Blizzard, Computer, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games Industry, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo, Portable, Sony, Sony
For the most part, Electronic Arts has been the one truly dominant third party publisher in recent memory, although Activision has been threatening EA for that title with the likes of Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, and Call of Duty. With the recent Blizzard merger, it seems likely that EA is, how you say, a wee-bit concerned.
But when speaking with Eurogamer, EA UK’s Keith Ramsdale maintained that EA was confident in its brand while wishing Activision Blizzard the best of luck.
“We wish them good luck and look forward to the competition,” Ramsdale told Eurogamer. “We believe that EA still has the industry’s strongest portfolio of game franchises and we’re always at our best when we have a clearly defined competitor.”
That’s why EA locked up NFL exclusivity and killed the NFL 2K series, right?
Ahem.
With some of the most powerful franchises in gaming, Activision Blizzard is going to be some serious competition for EA to contend with. Hopefully that’ll result in better games for the consumer.
Is it possible that for the first time in years, we’re going to have consistently good games and not cheap knock-offs and rubbish sequels?
There is no doubt, Activision Blizzard is gonna win the competition for sure. Ea has no chance except if they stop making really bad sequel of their games.
… it’s confirmed that we’ll see annual installments of the COD series and the GH series…
i doubt that’s going to lead to better quality games.
activision sadly has whored around the cod name already, letting treyarch make cod3, the lowest rating game in the series…
is treyarch making cod5 right now? or are we going to see a mediocre expansion-esque COD5 from IW itself?
Hopefully the competition should get better, but I feel that the merger only hurts originality.
This merger wouldn’t have been likely to happen if EA hadn’t become so dominant, something they’ve done by rehashing crap, i just hope Activision Blizzard don’t fight fire with fire (or crap with crap which would get really messy).
can’t wait to see the next games to come out of blizzard with activision on there side
well not the new expantion for WoW but the one after that will probly be there best work yet
NOOOOO!
i dont want BLIZZARD To be with Activtion.
I HATE gitar hero!
lol
But i love Bliz.