EA’s John Riccitiello: Hollywood needs games now more than ever

Electronic Arts‘ John Ricitiello made a bold statement regarding the state of entertainment media. He spoke of video games and movies. With the way things are developing now, he said that Hollywood needs video games more than it needs them. Find out the details in the full article.

The CEO of one of the biggest game publishers in the video game industry made headlines today with his strong and bold statements.

John Riccitiello of Electronic Arts said that Hollywood needs games now more than the gaming industry needs them.

This belief of Riccitiello comes from the way video games are now achieving an all time high in entertainment media, as pitted against one particularly medium, movies.

With the way things are now developing, he compared the situations of movies and video games in the market. Riccitiello told Financial Times:

The buzz in Hollywood, which I heard from some Hollywood folks is people are worried whether Iron Man the movie is going to get killed by Grand Theft Auto the game. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that before.

There is more interest today from Hollywood to make movies out of our games than there is interest in our industry to make games out of their movies. There’s a big reset happening now.

Well, this is certainly something interesting. There might actually be a rise in the way video games are now being embraced by society. What do you guys think? Can the words of John Riccitiello signal the rise of video games to new heights?

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Via Financial Times