gtahoodlum Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Riccitiello: Hollywood is 'worried' Electronic Arts CEO thinks the worm has turned; asserts that EA is going to be 'the one great games company.' Last February, John Riccitiello returned to Electronic Arts from Elevation Partners, the venture capital outfit he joined after leaving EA in 2004. Since his return, as chief executive, Riccitiello has split EA into four separate business units: EA Games, EA Sports, The Sims, and EA Casual Entertainment. He has also been a very vocal leader, holding forth on why the current game pricing model will soon be obsolete, why the next-gen console transition is over, and how the games industry is boring people to death... not to mention his pronouncements over the ongoing Take-Two takeover saga. In today's Financial Times, Riccitiello now makes his opinion on Hollywood known. He thinks that power in entertainment is shifting away from the studios to games companies. "The buzz in Hollywood, which I heard from some Hollywood folks... is people are worried whether Iron Man the movie is going to get killed by Grand Theft Auto the game. I don't think I've ever heard of that before... There is more interest today from Hollywood to make movies out of our games than there is interest in our industry to make games out of their movies. There's a big reset happening now," he said. Games are starting to be recognised as an art form as opposed to a toy for children, he believes. According to Riccitiello, "the greatest games will be viewed by almost everybody as being as important as Best Picture at the Academy Awards." This year, he said he would nominate Grand Theft Auto IV as Best Picture equivalent--taking the chance to once again sing the praises of developer Rockstar, which last month he revealed was the main reason behind EA's proposed takeover of Take-Two. However, he's quick to make clear that he doesn't think that EA needs Rockstar or Take-Two--perhaps unsurprisingly, he already thinks that the company is the best of the best. He said, "I read a book on how every medium creates one great company: animation created Disney, CBS was created by radio, NBC by television. Interactive entertainment is going to determine one great company and I think it's this one." source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iCoke Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Iron man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1927p Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 why the f*ck is EA talking about this...they have nothing to do with it....(yet) EA can suck my royal balls....they ruin every game and don't care about their customers, its all about money with them...thats why i love rockstar....they just don't care about making but more importanly making the cunsumor happy with their purchase. By the way hollywood isn't 'worried' That is BS. people will still go see movies and if they play GTA all day for months then they probably don't go to the theatres anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luminous piss Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 (edited) who is this guy Edited October 8, 2014 by luminous piss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamius Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 lololo fuk of ea u gna ruin are gamez plz no i hope dey die fukin priks gonna wreck gta4 completly Wow, you nearly mispelled a whole sentence! I have never, ever seen that before. Do you type with your forehead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryuclan Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 lololo fuk of ea u gna ruin are gamez plz no i hope dey die fukin priks gonna wreck gta4 completly Wow, you nearly mispelled a whole sentence! I have never, ever seen that before. Do you type with your forehead? lol Like Dane Cook. Anyway this is just an artice about EA talking about how much they don't ned Take Two. They feel they are ultimate, but really they are mediocre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmh Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 (edited) -=0 Edited October 16, 2008 by cmh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkgamr Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 1. I don't know of a single person who planned to see Iron Man anyways 2. If EA becomes the one great games company, they'll have to move out of the US, as we have anti-monopoly law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iCoke Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 2. If EA becomes the one great games company, they'll have to move out of the US, as we have anti-monopoly law Bill Gates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamius Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 2. If EA becomes the one great games company, they'll have to move out of the US, as we have anti-monopoly law Bill Gates You deserve it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luminous piss Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 (edited) this ea thing wont happen Edited October 8, 2014 by luminous piss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamius Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 lololo fuk of ea u gna ruin are gamez plz no i hope dey die fukin priks gonna wreck gta4 completly Die. Now. That was just a good example of 90% of the replies in any topic mildly related to EA or T2. Oh, sorry man! I didnt read into the sarcasm. My bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Burbank Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 1. I don't know of a single person who planned to see Iron Man anyways 2. If EA becomes the one great games company, they'll have to move out of the US, as we have anti-monopoly law EA is not close to being a monopoly. A test of whether something is a monopoly is whether the consumer has adequate choices/competition. If you go the store or wherever and only see EA products, and you have no choice and they use this to jack up prices and in turn "harm" the consumer, then it's probably a monopoly and then EA goes to court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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