According to the chief financial officer of Electronic Arts, will the new consoles from Microsoft and Sony are not backwards compatible. The cfo expects this initially disappointing sales figures for EA’s popular sports games on those consoles.
“It is important to remember that the next-gen consoles not likely backwards compatible. If you have a multiplayer game, you can probably not play against someone on a console of a different generation to play. If you’re FIFA, you game want to play on the console that your friends play. So if that is all a next-gen console to buy, and then go play, do you do that probably. If they are still even on the old generation remain a purchase is likely out until after the current football season,” said Jorgensen opposite Gamasutra.
Although Jorgensen talks about backwards compatibility, it is doubtful that the cfo was indeed referring to whether or not the ability to play old games on a next-gen console. Jorgensen seems to be mainly to targets in the given that you with a PlayStation 4 probably not can play online against someone on a PlayStation 3. That would be considerably less shocking, for such a feature has never existed, between which generations or consoles.
Jorgensen performs his explanation as a reason why EA’s sports games initially not so popular will be on the new consoles. The EA employee’s expected that a lot of gamers, the new consoles do not wait and see, but even before their FIFA or Madden game in the house will pick up for their current console. That gamers should in that case only from the following season of their sports game on the new consoles are going to play. That can for EA a reason to wait with a full PS4 and new Xbox release until the fall of 2014. Jorgensen gave about it during the conference, however, inconclusive.