The head of Electronic Arts' huge sports division is not a popular figure with PC gaming sports fans. In 2008 Peter Moore decided not to publish PC versions of most of their sports games, including the Madden NFL series. It looks like that will be the case for 2009 as well.However it's been over a year since Moore made the decision to cut down their PC game support and yet he still doesn't seem to have a handle on how to release a sports title for PC gamers. In a new chat over at the Edge Online web site, Moore states, "[With the PC platform] we've got to find the right business model for us going forward. We really want to keep sports an important part of the portfolio that's available to PC gamers, but the business model right now, shipping a physical disc for the PC, simply isn't working for us." When asked if he might consider launching an EA Sports MMO game he replied, "We think about it all the time. We look at how we could bring an MMO type experience to sports or sports to an MMO experience" Hopefully Moore will be able to announce some kind of PC sports franchise plan soon.


Well of course it isn't working, when you repeatedly ship ports of the PS2 versions of all the various sports games, even though the PS3 and 360 versions look and play much better! It is no surprise that sales of EA's PC sports games have plummeted.Posted at 4:33PM on Apr 30th 2009 by bVork