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Electronic Arts are the biggest video game software publishers in the world - with annual revenues exceeding $1billion. Yet, despite the huge success of the Dreamcast and its wealth of support, EA have yet to sign on as a Dreamcast publisher and according to their cheifs, doesn't plan to in the immediate future. The big question is why? EA were partly responsible for the massive success of the Mega Drive, with series' such as Fifa, PGA Golf, Road Rash and John Madden first making on that particular platform and catapulting EA to where they are today. The Fifa games continue to sell well with every annual update, usually landing top spot every Christmas. EA conitnue to support the ill-fated N64 and supported the Saturn until its dying day - so why are they ignoring the huge success of Sega's Dreamcast and not jumping ship, but more importantly - do Sega really need them?
Sega supporters were upset recently that Lionhead's Black & White would not make an appearance on the DC as EA were publishing it on the PC, but Sega have recently bought the exclusive console rights to that title and plan to publish it themselves - with online support. But what of EA Sports? Although they always carry an official licence, each update is never much more than the previous editions albeit with better graphics and the latest season's teams/players updated. However, Sega have Visual Concepts a company dedicated to making their games genuinely better than the previous ones and suprising us with excellent gameplay - and guess what, their games also carry official licences. Take NBA 2K for example, it's been highly acclaimed as the best representation of the sport to date and received 90%+ scores from all corners of the press, even non-basketball fans - and you can probably guarantee that they're hard at work on a soccer game right now.
But not only do we have Sega/Visual Concepts producing great sports games, we have Acclaim, Konami, Infogrames and many more with the mouth watering prospect of an ISS game coming to the Dreamcast soon. Okay, so they're some games we'll miss, System Shock 2 for example and anything that Bullfrog happen to produce - but the man behind Bullfrog has since left and formed Lionhead, since then the quality of Bullforg titles has declined and EA bought them out. If you do happen to be a fan of EA then don't panic - they're most likely hard at work on some Dreamcast games right now and are just holding back an announcement - surely EA can't ignore such a prosperous console for long? Many people were sceptical that Eidos would sign on for Dreamcast, but we've already seen two games from them and Tomb Raider is on its way next month, with many more games to follow.
