EA cash cow isn't Origin it's the app store - Polidicks

[quote]In all, EA made $90 million from games available for smartphones and tablets.[/quote] [url=http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/24/ea-making-more-money-through-apples-ios-app-store-than-its-own-origin-service]Source[/url]

Didn't notch make over $100 million one year on minecraft? How hilarious is that, EA's entire mobile division got outdone by a single indie developer :v:

[QUOTE=Elspin;41585872]Didn't notch make over $100 million one year on minecraft? How hilarious is that, EA's entire mobile division got outdone by a single indie developer :v:[/QUOTE] Shocker how a huge company with many titles can outsell an indie developer with one product on the market.

[QUOTE=Elspin;41585872]Didn't notch make over $100 million one year on minecraft? How hilarious is that, EA's entire mobile division got outdone by a single indie developer :v:[/QUOTE] A single indie developer who got lucky as fuck.

[QUOTE=Elspin;41585872]Didn't notch make over $100 million one year on minecraft? How hilarious is that, EA's entire mobile division got outdone by a single indie developer :v:[/QUOTE] Notch is hardly your average indie dev

[QUOTE=Ericson666;41586059]Notch is hardly your average indie dev[/QUOTE] ya thats why microsoft wanted to recode the entire game to put it onto xbox360 i wonder how much they would have made if sim city 5 hadn't been such a clusterfuck

[QUOTE=areolop;41586020]Shocker how a huge company with many titles can outsell an indie developer with one product on the market.[/QUOTE] The indie developer is outselling the huge company's mobile division, not the other way around.

[QUOTE=areolop;41586020]Shocker how a huge company with many titles can outsell an indie developer with one product on the market.[/QUOTE] Er, you read that backwards buddy, $100+ million > $90 million. [QUOTE=darkrei9n;41586054]A single indie developer who got lucky as fuck.[/QUOTE] Places in my post I said that it wasn't: - - - just pointing out how funny that is.

[QUOTE=Elspin;41586158]Er, you read that backwards buddy, $100+ million > $90 million. Places in my post I said that it wasn't: - - - just pointing out how funny that is.[/QUOTE] it's not that funny

I have a few EA titles on my iPad and most of them are actually pretty good, far better than the shit Gameloft keeps on spewing out. Perhaps the only exception to this is C&C: Red Alert for iOS which put the series to shame.