EA: Prepare For Peripheral-Based Sports Games

The success of peripheral-based games like Rock Band and Wii Fit has inspired Electronic Arts to release some sports titles that include specialty controllers. Gamasutra reports that EA Sports vice president David McCarthy, during a Q&A session following his address at Game Developers Conference Paris on Tuesday, said that such games will be released within the next 12 months. "You have to be careful with it, because Rock Band, that's a great peripheral, but it's a big expensive box," he