EA Investing $80 Million Towards Next-Gen Development In Fiscal 2013
by May 7, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
EA’s Q4 earnings wrap-up has revealed an interesting tidbit, namely that the company is setting aside a cool $80 million to fuel development efforts on next-generation, or “Gen4” platforms in EA’s words.
The funds will back a number of unannounced projects throughout fiscal 2013. EA’s FY 2013 runs from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. While no specific details were given beyond that, this essentially confirms that new platforms from Sony and Microsoft will arrive by 2013.
In addition, EA revealed that its Origin service has amassed 11 registered million players and generated $150 million in just ten months. We’ll take that as an indication that we won’t see any of EA’s more recent PC titles turn up on Steam anytime soon.
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