EA COO Peter Moore is counting on a dominating role for digital revenue in video games. Speaking at the Digital Entertainment World conference, he said that he expects the digital sales to completely eclipse retail numbers in the next two years. He likened the rising prominence of downloads as a kind of “creative destruction,” in which an industry is unable to manage the evolving buying habits of its consumers. Moore compared the situation to the music business, that he says remains recovering from its shift away …
Now All EA Games Will Not Require Online Connection, Said Moore
Peter Moore shared some statement to effect that EA no longer ships offline games, but products that are enmeshed in online and social functionality, last week at Gamescom. In the massive EA blog’s today he gave the clarity to those statements and said EA’s approach does not mean all its games are required to be online. “Many, if not most, …