Investor Relations Unveils New Sims Titles Investor Relations Unveils New Sims Titles For those of you who trade stock, you're very well aware of such conference calls. For the rest of us, these conference calls serves as the medium where shareholders can grill the board of directors (like EA) and inquire about profits. Sum it up, profits are on track for EA as they've predicted. The entire conference call lasted about 2 hours. But their 30 minute Q&A session with shareholders, investors, proved some valueable information. Sims on Next-Gen Consoles CFO Warren Jenson confirmed The Sims is coming to next generation platforms, specifically for The Wii and the PS3: "There is a Sims title that is being specifically developed for the Wii platform," said Jenson. "The Sims II holiday edition on PS3" is also coming," said the executive. The release forecast for the game to arrive is either in the 2006 or 2007 holiday season. SimCity For us die-hard SimCity fans, yes it's finally official. A new SimCity title is officially in the works. "There will be another Lord of the Rings [game]... There's a new SimCity game in the pipeline and the next-generation version of Black. Those things alone are all new, relative to fiscal '07," said Jenson. Spore This drew up probably some real excitement. You can hear it within the board of directors voices and I bet investors are really happy. Commenting the progress of Spore, EA's North American publishing boss Frank Gibeau said, "The development on Spore is going great. As you know, it's an extremely ambitious and innovative game. Will and the team over at Emeryville are making strong progress and we're excited about that game shipping in the next fiscal year." The Sims...3? Wow, it just seems like not too long ago we were grabbing our mitts on The Sims 2. But Wait...The Sims 3? Yes confirmed early development is starting and expected to be a 2009 launch title. FOr those of you who just want to wait for The Sims 3, well, you do have 2-3 years to wait. Discuss away!
Fiscal year? Funny talk! I guess I should go look up when their fiscal year begins and ends. Sims 3!!! Where on earth can the sims go beyond where they are already? :eyebrow: Hard to imagine. Outer Space? :bouncy: It's going to be hard for me to wait 2-3 years, which is probably an optimistic projection of the release date. OK, I found it -- EA's current fiscal year ends on March 31, 2007. So they're talking about Spore shipping sometime between April 2007 and March 2008.
