Frank Gibeau, the head of mobile development for Electronic Arts, is a forceful spokesman for gaming.
After thirty years of consistent and often tactless competition in the videogame industry, console gaming companies prepare to combat a greater evil: the mobile gaming market. Interviewee Frank Gibeau, an executive at EA Games, remains optimistic for the fate of the console, but others speculate that mobile platforms, beefed up with today’s ever-improving microprocessors, will make “consoles go the way of the dinosaur.” In spite of this trend, Gibeau cites the undying appeal of interactive entertainment on the big screen: “Yes. I kept hearing that console gaming is a dinosaur, headed to the tar pits. Then the new consoles were announced, and people started saying, ‘Can you get me one?’” Regardless of the outcome, the market has grown exponentially since Nintendo and Sega’s bit-wars of yesterday, and it shows no signs of stagnating.