Wed, Dec 10, 2008 | 06:35 GMT

EA to reduce roster weight, but Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space, sports are all safe

EA confirmed it’s to continue to trim games from its release schedule in a conference call last night, but that new IP brought to market this year will go forward with sequels.

“We’re very pleased with a lot of our new franchises this year. Spore… [looks like an] ongoing franchise, Dead Space looks like a long-term big winner for us… Warhammer will continue to perform very well,” said CEO John Riccitiello.

“Mirror’s Edge was very strongly reviewed – That one’s going to go forward. We’ll be looking at some issues around the design to make sure that strong IP is married with strong business.”

CFO Eric Brown said in the call that SKU reductions would most likely be split evenly between the company’s casual titles and more traditional games, while the sports portfolio was likely to remain unaffected.

The execs were speaking to investors after issuing a Q4 sales warning last night.

Thanks Gamasutra and Shacknews.

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3 comments

Gekidami
10/12/08, 8:08 am

I wonder if “long-term big winner for us” means; ‘We’re gonna milk it like theres no tomorrow’…

Blerk
10/12/08, 8:53 am

It’s good to know they realise people had some issues with certain things in Mirror’s Edge. If they can address those then the sequel could potentially be much more like the game people wanted.

SplatteredHouse
10/12/08, 9:22 am

Good to see that the future of EA’s newest IPs is confirmed. Talking about Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge, they were both good games, just ME had some rough edges that will surely be ironed out.