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"Major kick in Microsoft's Gonads"

10 EA sports and EA sports BIG games will feature online support exclusively for PS2.

Ouch. I heard a crunch. MS will have no more children.

EA make a lot of money. Anyway EA don't suck Medal of Honor and SSX are top games.

TGMbloke wrote:
> Apart from 'The Sims' EA have not had one other game I have
> liked...And besides, The sims was originally by Maxis

Who are owned by EA.

Maverick42 wrote:
> You mean Sega's 2k range. Which is also out on PS2.
>
> Haha.. busted.. ;D

Erm no, I'm not actually a crap pop group.

Microsoft licence out to developers the ability to use and integrate the game into Xbox Live, developers pay a fee to do so, but benefit from increased sales. Hence if EA don't want to benefit from the sales being a Live game brings - look how Live! enabled games stormed up the Xbox sales charts on it's official release - then it's EA who lose out.

In addition, NFL Fever on the Xbox is a Microsoft Game Studio's product - correct me if I'm wrong here someone - and they also do NFL and NBA fever. Hence if EA are not making their sports games available online to Xbox owners then the money goes straight to MS, or a game licensed for online play, which MS have made money with. The lack of EA on the online sports scene for Xbox opens up a massive oppurtunity for both MS and Sega to exploit sales.

Ta-da!

If the games suck anywhere near as much as EAs attitude, I won't care anyway.

Belldandy wrote:
> What the actual result for EA will be is falling Xbox sales of their
> titles whilst MS's 2k range cleans up.

You mean Sega's 2k range. Which is also out on PS2.

Haha.. busted.. ;D

Yeah, EA wanted to be able to charge their own fees for games rather than let people play them as part of Live!.

Slight thing I forgot to point out with the 2k series - it is multiformat but incorporate Live! play on the Xbox, hence MS get money from that, and there is MS's own Fever range also.

EA had a falling out with Microsoft over online games quite a while ago if I remember correctly.

Yes I'm sure Microsoft are just about ready to end it all, with the knowledge that they now control the only licences to have online play in sports, what with the biggest Xbox user base being in the USA, where the largest number of Live! subscriber are.

What the actual result for EA will be is falling Xbox sales of their titles whilst MS's 2k range cleans up.

So it's really like EA have shot themselves in the foot...

on a further note: serious gamers really have to think long and hard before buying EA games anyway.

good! as i've stated elsewhere (in DO EA SUCK forum/thread) EA could lose out to non official games which are simply prepared to go online. I don't care if i'm beckham or gretsky or whatever. I want to play people online!

Good one EA, may it come back to bite you!