The Research Scientist Director at EA's Tiburon studio spoke at the University of Central Florida tonight and answered questions from the crowd.
Here are some of the most importaint things said:
- EA is working on games (including the next-gen Madden) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 2, but he does not know of any Revolution development yet.
- He was quoted as saying something along the lines of "..and with Xbox 2 and PS3 launching this fall..", without taking much notice to saying it.
- He said we will not see any games that take advantage of the new hardware until the second or third years, but this is really nothing new to the industry.
- When talking about the video game industry, he mentioned that you have a 1 in 1000 chance of having a game proposal made into a video game (at least as far as EA goes). The proposal has to include story, gameplay, marketing, business, budget, etc.
- There was a short exchange between him and a student, that began with him saying, "In the past the Tiburon studio has only made sports games". A student then asked, "Does that mean there are non-sports games in development there?" at which point he replied with, "In the past it was just sports games," and then grinned.
