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EA CEO shares his thoughts on a sports metaverse

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In Electronic Arts‘ earnings conference call, an analyst asked EA CEO Andrew Wilson what he thought about the opportunity for building a metaverse from EA’s various sports silos.

Wilson said it was an “incredible” question and also “very insightful. He noted that EA has more than 700 million players, with more than half of them interacting with EA Sports games. He said EA is one of the world’s most recognizable sports brands.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.