EA has hit a flat spot, with revenue growth coming to a halt this year and — according to this commentary — probably next year as well.
“For a start, EA doesn’t do well with disruptive technology — and there’s rather a lot of that about at the moment. Everything the company does on platforms like Nintendo consoles or mobile phones is an attempt to shoe-horn traditional console gaming onto devices which are ill-suited to it; while the development skill and ingenuity is clearly there, the corporate will to innovate on new platforms seems to be weak at best.”
Of course, when you’re that big there’s always the ability to buy your way out of trouble, which EA may have done with its acquisition of Jamdat. That’s if EA management doesn’t interfere with the running of EA Mobile and lets the ex-Jamdat team get on with what it had been doing so well.
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