"If you want to make a hit, you have to give a game time to get to quality," says company president.
EA Games is not keen on licensed games anymore, according to President Frank Gibeau in an interview with Develop.
"The days of licensed-based, 75-rated games copies are dead like the dinosaur," Gibeau said.
He specifically called out the James Bond franchise, which EA worked with last generation, citing creative limitations, high percentage royalties, and the decaying movie-game business as a few reasons why EA has little interest in licensed games.
"Considering the total amount of money we have to spend on those types of James Bond games, and the total amount of man-hours we had to put into them, we thought: hell, let’s work on our own IP," he said. "The guys who made James Bond games for us, well yeah, they went on and made Dead Space."