EA Studios Boss Doesn’t Believe F2P Will Work On Home Consoles

<p>With mobile app developers widely accepting F2P &lpar;free-to-play&rpar; games as the new &&num;8216&semi;norm&&num;8217&semi; of game development&comma; many news outlets have been reporting that a similar fate could soon rear its head in the home console market&comma; especially after Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s recent push with both Wii Fit U and Wii Sports U adopting a similar pay-to-play scheme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EA Studios executive vice president Patric Söderlund does not believe that this is the case however&period; Speaking to MCV he said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Only 18 months ago&comma; most mobile games were full game downloads&period; Now I’d say 90 per cent are freemium&period; That change happened very quickly&period; Whether that will happen on the consoles I don’t know&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Patric Söderlund continued by saying&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;I still think the console market is different to the mobile market&period; Mobile games are much cheaper&period; It’s like film&period; YouTube is free&comma; but to see Gravity at the cinema&comma; it will cost you money&period; One does not remove the other one&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you agree with Patric Söderlund&&num;8217&semi;s thoughts or do you think that the PS4 and Xbox One will adopt and push the F2P method of playing games&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments below or over at our Facebook page&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mcvuk&period;com&sol;news&sol;read&sol;s-derlund-questions-free-to-play-console-future&sol;0125003">MCV<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2013&sol;12&sol;02&sol;ea-studios-boss-unconvinced-free-to-play-will-dominate-on-consoles-in-future">IGN<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;26f913d6-080a-465c-ac11-f90f92375520" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;