PS4 And Xbox One Sales Reach An Important Milestone, EA Says

Mar 05, 2016, 01:58

EA has revealed that sales of new generation consoles are in a good shape, estimating 60 million units combined for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Ubisoft also announced that for those who have bought the digital copy of the game are able to start pre-loading last March the 2nd, this only applies to those who have Xbox One.

The executive previously said that for EA or a similar company to spend $50-$100 million to build a AAA VR experience, the market would need to be comparable to that of consoles. The combined console sales for the PS3 and Xbox 360 are over 150 million, as well. When it does, however, Jorgensen noted that EA is already capable of producing the content for relevant devices since it has consolidated its game engine and development processes.

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He did, however, confirm that despite some variance by bandwidth speeds and where people are in the world, 25 percent of EA sales are now full-game downloads, up from 20 percent disclosed by the company last November.

"We're allowing ourselves to decouple our software platform from the hardware platform on which it runs." said Spencer. "We can effectively feel a little bit more like what we see on PC where I can still go back and run my old Quake and Doom games, but then I can also see the best 4K games coming out".

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