Record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. It is because we lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Make games. That is the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . What you discover, it feels like an age ago now, but it is still the forefront of our memory, is there was a bunch of stuff that we were doing they did
Why microsoft is boosting its videogame investment. Developingid to be an augmented reality headset that could be in store by 2019. A couple of things will set this apart from available ar devices. It will contain its own display. It will also have its dedicated operating system. I sat down with mark gurman who broke this story. I think we had an in depth look at a lot of projects. At apple, there is this team newing on two headsets and systems for the iphone. The new headset they are working on is one that runs its own operating system and doesnt have to have an iphone attached to it. They are working on another headset that is like an oculus ar and strap it on your head. This is only what they are doing for testing and leveraging the Ar Technology parried emily seems like they are focusing on ar. Agree that vr has great applications for education, but ar is like a watcher that you can use in your daytoday life. Ar headset has several application. To what tima listen cook have to say
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David after 16 years as the ceo of ge, you have stepped down. Is a big burden off your shoulders now . Jeffrey i do think if you are doing the job well, you feel ownership over everyone in the constituency, and you wear that 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Look, 16 years is a long time, i am starting to feel a little bit of decompression. David do you think it is too long to run a publicly traded company for someone like you . Jeffery that is a good question, david. I think there is a right time and wrong time in terms of doing it. Accompany our size, you need to run it long enough to make a strategy. , shape it has always been our philosophy to give a ceo tenure, but at the same time, it is good to get a ne
Details on the new console and why microsoft is boosting its videogame investment. Apple is said to be developing an augmented reality headset that could be in store by 2019. A couple of things will set this apart from available ar devices. It will contain its own display. You wont have to answer your smart phone. It will also have its dedicated operating system. I sat down with mark gurman who broke this story. I think we had an in depth look at a lot of projects. At apple, there is this team working on two headsets and new systems for the iphone. The new headset they are working on is one that runs its own operating system and doesnt have to have an iphone attached to it. They are working on another headset that is like an oculus ar and strap it on your head. This is only what they are doing for testing and leveraging the Ar Technology parried emily seems like they are focusing on ar. Tim cook has been clear on how apple things ar is the more main stream. I tend to agree that vr has