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So then, John Riccitiello will leave his job as CEO of Electronic Arts on 30th March. A wartime president of sorts, Riccitiello had to steer his company through the decline of traditional boxed game sales and the rise of digital games on mobile and social platforms. He had to sacrifice a lot of foot soldiers in order to keep the graphs going up.Except he didn't keep the graphs going up. "It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued in January, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago," he said in his resignation letter. "EA's shareholders and employees expect better and I am accountable for the miss."
So why has he really gone? And how do we grade Riccitiello's time as boss of the company that - by volume - produces more games that core gamers care about than any other in the industry, including Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Activision and Ubisoft? Finally, just as importantly, what should we be looking for in his replacement?
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