Jeff Brown, the company’s spokesman, said there was a more pronounced reason for the delay. As EA gets close to completing games, it sometimes must focus its resources on the version for one particular console. That’s because manpower resources are limited. Mr. Brown said that it makes financial sense to focus on finishing the games for the Xbox 360 first because there are more 360s in the market than PS3s. More consoles means more potential sales for EA.
Mr. Brown said such a dynamic was nothing new — and that in the last generation of consoles it sometimes made more sense to push out a version of a game for the PlayStation 2 before publishing one for the original Xbox.
The fact that games are now coming out sooner for the 360 than the PS3 is another sign of changing times and fortunes in the video game industry