My trip to EA Canada

[Mike]

Originally Posted by thecreeper

i have to say i'm very jealous. sounds like an awesome time dude. did you talk any industry with them there?

A good amount.

A lot of developers, especially EA, are upset with Microsoft and many are blaming the short sales in 4th quarter on MS' shortages. A lot of companies invested a lot of money into developing for the X360, but because of Shortages, X360 software is selling poorly... On top of that, consumers don't want to buy software for the current generation because they anticipate owning an X360 shortly... and not wanting to have dead games sitting around. SO sales are way down and a lot of developers are pissed at MS for it.

Most people believe that the PS3 and X360 will mostly have the same amount of power... or games won't be all that much different. I had thought otherwise, figuring the PS3 would pwn the X360 in terms of power... but the guys at EA figured it'd be mostly the same.

Morale is generally low for most developers, right now, with the next gen coming out ... as it requires funding that a lot simply don't have.

Trying to remember what else ... When we were talking about industry stuff it was usually at the bar... and I got hammered both nights, so it's tough to recall.