Certainly EA's past reputation haunts them and public opinion will likely be the last thing to change. But I believe you cannot blame their situation on current management.
Riccitiello has been CEO for about a year and a half now, since 04/02/07. That means most of those XB360/PS3 games that you've seen this season were likely started well before the current management was in charge. Riccitiello is simply trying to play the hand he was dealt as well as he could, a hand full of 360/PS3 cards and few strong Wii cards.
He chose to take risk and to focus on new IP like Dead Space, and the more innovative titles like Mirror's Edge, while canning things like the FPS spinoff Tiberium. Unfortunately for EA they have not been as successful as hoped, but I think they impressed a lot of gamers and may have sowed the seeds for some new long term franchises.
In his time there he has also acquired Bioware and Pandemic, and he's signed deals with ID, Epic, and Grasshopper Manufacture, partnerships that seemed impossible only a couple years ago.
I don't want to come off as an EA apologist, but I just call them like I see them. EA has not been perfect but I feel that the current management has made good moves even though right now they're not paying off financially. In time I believe that will change too.
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Certainly EA's past reputation haunts them and public opinion will likely be the last thing to change. But I believe you cannot blame their situation on current management.
Riccitiello has been CEO for about a year and a half now, since 04/02/07. That means most of those XB360/PS3 games that you've seen this season were likely started well before the current management was in charge. Riccitiello is simply trying to play the hand he was dealt as well as he could, a hand full of 360/PS3 cards and few strong Wii cards.
He chose to take risk and to focus on new IP like Dead Space, and the more innovative titles like Mirror's Edge, while canning things like the FPS spinoff Tiberium. Unfortunately for EA they have not been as successful as hoped, but I think they impressed a lot of gamers and may have sowed the seeds for some new long term franchises.
In his time there he has also acquired Bioware and Pandemic, and he's signed deals with ID, Epic, and Grasshopper Manufacture, partnerships that seemed impossible only a couple years ago.
I don't want to come off as an EA apologist, but I just call them like I see them. EA has not been perfect but I feel that the current management has made good moves even though right now they're not paying off financially. In time I believe that will change too.
That said I don't own any ERTS.