Good to know. The recent confirmation of new consoles has become one of the most interesting happenings recently, with Xbox Scorpio said to lead the pack of these new arrivals.
Which also include the PlayStation Neo and the next unit from Nintendo, dubbed the NX.
While developer interest is appropriately high for these new machines, as always it will come down to large publishers bringing their goods for the systems. And when it comes to goods, EA is one company that is all in.
Executive Vice President Patrick Söderlund recently shared his thoughts on these new consoles, termed this a smart approach and said that his company was a hundred percent behind them.
As for the Xbox Scorpio, he is even more excited about it after getting an early peek at this device:
“We haven’t seen this whole idea of upgrading since the Mega CD in 1991 or something. At the time, that might not have worked, but this is different. I can only comment to what’s been announced by Microsoft, the whole idea of keeping the ecosystem intact and scalable is right. If you get in later in the cycle, you can get a Scorpio or you can upgrade to it.
It’s an interesting, smart approach, and we’ll see how well it works. It’s something that we as a company are 100 percent behind. I got super excited when I saw what they are working on, and without giving you any information, the same is true of Sony. In general, this is a good thing.”
That’s not to say that this approach from Microsoft is not without risks, same goes for Sony, but then again, risks often pay off.
The EA executive also talked about working with Nintendo again, and said that his company sees an addressable market for whatever the Japanese company is cooking.
source:windows10update
