The publisher behind games like Mass Effect and Madden says it won’t be selling its games at brick-and-mortar stores for much longer.
The publisher behind games like Mass Effect and Madden says it won’t be selling its games at brick-and-mortar stores for much longer.
I guess this is hardly surprising to anyone. EA having been pushing digital distribution pretty hard since Origin has been launched. EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has announced that EA won’t be selling games at bricks-and-mortar stores for much longer.
It’s in the near future. It’s coming. We have a clear line of sight on it and we’re excited about it. Retail is a great channel for us. We have great relationships with our partners there. At the same time, the ultimate relationship is the connection that we have with the gamer. If the gamer wants to get the game through a digital download and that’s the best way for them to get it, that’s what we’re going to do. It has a lot of enhancements for our business. It allows us to keep more that we make. It allows us to do some really interesting things from a service level standpoint; we can be a lot more personalised with what we’re doing… For us, the fastest growing segment of our business is clearly digital and clearly digital services and ultimately Electronic Arts, at some point in the future… we’re going to be a 100% digital company, period. It’s going to be there some day. It’s inevitable.
I think this is a good move? What do you think?
Source: www.gamesindustry.biz
