{"id":10599,"date":"2011-03-11T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-pc-could-become-our-biggest-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10599-ea-pc-could-become-our-biggest-platform","title":{"rendered":"EA: &quot;PC could become our biggest platform&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty much accepted that PC gaming is on a steady decline globally, with more and more people overlooking the trusty keyboard-mouse combo in favour of the console controller.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, according to EA, PC gaming may be the future. Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/33394\/Interview_Frank_Gibeau_on_EAs_Expanding_Focus_in_the_PC_Space.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a>, EA Games label president Frank Gibreau has said that PC gaming may yet become the company&#8217;s biggest platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The user base is gigantic,&#8221; he says. &#8220;PC retail may be a big problem, but PC downloads are awesome. &#8230; The margins are much better and we don&rsquo;t have any rules in terms of first party approvals. From our perspective, it&#8217;s an extremely healthy platform. &#8230; It&#8217;s totally conceivable it will become our biggest platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11619-PC-could-be-EA-s-biggest-platform-again?p=381559#post381559\" target=\"_self\">Discuss EA&#8217;s comment about PC gaming<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital downloads on PC the way forward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}