Denying any and all accusations pertaining to EA Partners’ bad business, Frank Gibeau, President of EA labels, has stated in no uncertain terms that the organization is doing very well, even after the many lay-offs this year.
“We had, frankly, too much capacity inside of our EA Partners team to handle more projects than we were in position to want to have right now. That was what was the scaling back of it was. But Partners is open for business,” said Gibeau.
“I don’t think the communication of that has been particularly well executed on our part,” he explained when it came to the matter of them supposedly closing down.
“We are absolutely open for business to partner with developers out there. In fact on mobile, as an example, with our Chillingo team, we just published three games this week,” he continued. “On the console front, honestly, when you’re in a transition, you tend to focus in on your internal titles and put must of your attention there and most of your capital to make sure you get your studios positioned and configured for that. So we’re definitely looking to do that.”
Being a sub-division of sorts, EA Partners is a key member in the distribution of games, particularly those of third-party developers. A few of these developers are: Harmonix, Epic Games, Crytek and Grasshopper Manufacture. It’s going to display TitanFall by Respawn Entertainment this week at E3 2013.