I highly doubt that EA will go under anytime soon, and when the time comes, they won't flat out die. They will enter a very slow slump period over time, and then get bought buy some other company.
Sansha said:
Last I would like to add that "history" video is a load of crap. Okay, the history about 80's crash is fine, but the guy's comparisons are lunacy. The miniscule amount of out-criers against EA for the end of ME3 is not an equal comparison to the 80's crash and the bad games released at the time.
The reason the 80's crash happened is because the games that were being quickly "made" and shipped out were unplayable from technical standpoint. Consumers were angry because games literally couldn't be played in the sense of, start game, play, beat, or get high score.
ME3 is pretty much perfect from a technical standpoint, it can be played from start to finish and be beaten. With ME3, the complaints on the opinionated level. I saw many complaints that the bad ending ruined the whole game for some people, that that made the game unplayable. The thing is, that is a personal opinion, not fact. Yeah, the ending wasn't great, but for people like me, a bad ending doesn't negate how good or great the first 99% of the game is. That is of course an opinion as well, but what isn't an opinion is the ME3 works from start to finish and on a technical level, it is playable, that is a fact.
I wouldn't call that guy Clever Noob. Noob yeah, but cross out Clever and put uneducated or just misinformed, because the guy clearly hasn't been properly taught how to make an argument and present facts and make proper comparisons. His comparisons are like, "This firecracker going off destroying that army man's face is just like those loads of strategically placed dynamite taking down that office building."
The industry maybe in a little slump, but with how many companies there are out there and still making quality games(EA still being one of them), far more than in the 80's, it would take a true depression, where absolutely nobody has the money to buy games, for the game industry to crash again.