EA ist sich ziemlich sicher, dass Battlefield 3 die Verkäufe des Spiels von Activision verringert hat.
EA COO Peter Moore sagte nun, dass er glaubt, dass Battlefield 3 einige Verkäufe von Konkurrent Modern Warfare 3 weggenommen hat.
“I’m not sure that we didn’t steal any share,” erklärte er. “It’s early days and we’re only a month in – we feel very good about it. Two entities have benefited from Call of Duty and Battlefield being on the market: gamers and the industry. Together we’ve grown the genre enormously. 10 million sold in and 5 million sold through doesn’t come out of nowhere – if we haven’t gained share, that means in the first week we’ve added 5 million new FPS gamers.”
“I think when the dust fully settles, maybe when we’re looking at this at the end of our fiscal year [on March 31] we’ll do an analysis and I think we will have taken share. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that, unless everything BF3 sells is just incremental.”
“I’m more focused on how we’ve done by our gamer and consumers, and yes many of them bought both games undoubtedly. Have our retail partners enjoyed this? Absolutely. And does this help push the game industry to the front pages of newspapers? You bet it does. Go look at USA Today, go look at The New York Times – the big entertainment blockbusters this year are not movies, they’re video games. Call of Duty and Battlefield have done that.”, so der EA-Mitarbeiter.
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