What EA’s choice of Andrew Wilson as CEO means for its future

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 17, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

Electronic Arts’ choice of its new chief executive, Andrew Wilson, is generating a lot of thoughts about what it means for the future of the video game giant.

For EA, it likely means it will stay the course on its strategy of straddling mobile games and next-generation console games. But Wilson’s choice also shows that EA’s board is willing to take a risk on someone who might introduce fresher thinking and who isn’t entrenched in just one kind of strategy.

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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.