During a presentation at the UBS Global Technology Conference, EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen discussed details about the publisher’s upcoming Star Wars titles. With a new series of movies slated for release in 2015, many wondered if EA would be handling tie-in titles.
Jorgensen had this to say:
“We’ve done movie games over the years and we wanted to make sure that we weren’t doing a movie game, i.e., game based on the movie,” Jorgensen says. “The beauty of the Star Wars franchise is that it’s so broad and so deep, you don’t have to do a movie game, you can do a game that’s very focused on the world that’s been created around Star Wars.”
Any fan of Star Wars will know that the series has a particularly notorious backdrop of rather terrible games, especially ones that tie-in to the movies. So it’s probably a smart move for EA to straight up declare that they won’t be making any games that don’t directly tie-in to the upcoming trilogy. Of course, there will be an influx of Star Wars video games around the time of the movies, but hopefully ones that branch from the storyline of the movies.
Courtesy of Game Informer
