No more console exclusives as games move to the cloud says EA founder
The whole concept of console-exclusives will go to the wall as the games business moves towards cloud computing, according to the original founder of EA, Trip Hawkins.
Interviewed on the latest episode of Game Theory (below), Hawkins explained that the games industry previously adopted a "winner takes all, single platform model," but says now it's "clearly never going to be that way again."
Hawkins reckons that in the future "any kind of game company will have to have a technology approach that gives them agility across platform boundaries." He also predicted that games publishers in the future would adopt a pay-as-you-go style business model.
