The publisher is ”platform agnostic,” noting they sell on both next-gens more ”than anybody.” Sony’s PS3 is doing ”very strong right now.”
Yes the former Xbox 360 acolyte appears to harbour more love for its rival at the moment. Though EA teaming up with Sony to announce E3 news shouldn’t be read into much.
”We’re platform agnostic. We sell more software on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 than anybody,” Schappert said, reports IGN. ”That being said, we partnered with Sony on the press conference; we were on their stage and got to announce some things.”
”I wouldn’t read too much into what we’re showing the demos on, but I will tell you, in the marketplace, the PlayStation 3 is doing incredibly well.” What’s behind the sudden surge in PlayStation 3 euphoria at retail?
”Since Sony changed the PS3 form factor, rolled out the Kevin Butler marketing campaign, and launched some great content, the box is on fire,” he said. ”Now the problem is you haven’t been able to find it at retail, it’s been out of stock. But I think they’ll fix that soon.”
”We have high hopes on the PlayStation 3 this year. Again, we like them all, but PlayStation 3 is doing very strong right now,” he added. EA has 2 exclusive offers for PS3 gamers this year in the shape of Dead Space: Extraction coming out with support for PS Move and a remastered Medal of Honor: Frontline.
”It was a great opportunity to work with Sony on genres that they were very interested in promoting for the PlayStation 3,” Schappert continued. ”We were able to make use of the Blu-ray disc with the larger storage space and add additional content on the disc without sacrificing anything from the core game.”
He’s referring to PS3 Dead Space 2 and Medal of Honor which both will include bonus games on their Blu-ray discs when they hit the shops.
”We partner with Microsoft on a ton of products, but those are just two good opportunities we had with Sony that we wanted to highlight.” Are you in agreement with Schappert that the PlayStation 3 is scorching in the marketplace right now?
