EA expects Origin to be better version of Steam

EA is aiming to make its Origin content delivery service better than main rival Steam.

Origin was released last year and still has some catching up to do if it is to be considered as a threat to Steam.

EA’s senior vice president of global e-commerce, David DeMartini, was optimistic as he told MCV: “If MySpace had stayed the one answer in social networking and no one switched to Facebook, then we’d all be stuck on MySpace right now and we wouldn’t have had the Facebook phenomenon.

“There are better mousetraps that ultimately get built out of this innovation and the only way you get to the innovation is to have other people try to do a better version of what someone has previously done. And that’s what we’re attempting to do on Origin.

“I didn’t expect to be able to out-feature Steam within the first 12 months. But I’m quite optimistic we will differentiate ourselves as a service. We’ve built the foundation and now we are starting to add value to the service off of that foundation.”