Story Correction: EA Mobile Not Going Off Deck

Updated: The story reported below is not accurate, according to EA Mobile PR…IGN and Gamespot got it wrong, the sources we linked to, says the PR. Mitch demoed an RSS feed/reader, apparently. Oh well…
This was bound to happen, but the fact that the biggest in the field does it means something: EA Mobile, which now incorporates Jamdat, is going off-deck to sell mobile games. At the Harris Nesbitt Games Go Mobile Conference in New York senior VP Mitch Lasky gave details on the mobile maker’s plans to step outside the traditional carrier model and sell games directly to mobile gamers. The plan is to create and release a series of simple applications for EA to sell mobile content directly from their website and then give the buyer the means of sending it directly to their handset.
Gamespot: He also revealed to analysts present that Will Wright’s upcoming simulation game Spore was coming to mobile phones. He then demoed a “desktop to mobile” application where games, presumably bought from a retail area of a publisher’s Web site, can be dragged and dropped onto a Java application that will immediately load the game code onto the memory of a consumer’s connected cell phone.

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