MIT Technology Review's List of 50 Disruptive Companies for 2013. It might be easier to explain the 50 Disruptive Companies project by starting with what it is not.
It is not a quantitative assessment; we don’t think R&D spending or numbers of patents and new products necessarily reveal what’s most meaningful about a company’s innovative power. It also is not a ranking. We don’t mean to suggest that any of these 50 companies is more important or better than the others. Instead, this package is meant to capture the rich variety of ways that innovations get commercialized. Each company on this list has done something over the past year that will strengthen its hold on a market, challenge the leaders of a market, or create a new market. Facebook game developers generated $2.8 billion in 2012. Mitch Lasky points to consoles as biggest risk for EA. Former Disney, Activision and EA exec Mitch Lasky has pointed to EA's console-focused Games label as the company's single biggest problem for future growth.
In a post on his personal blog, Lasky called consoles, "the wild card for the future of EA, the platform with the most risk. " He praised the company's growing digital business - particularly innovative ideas like FIFA Ultimate Team - but he warned that, while big publishers believe that new console hardware will reinvigorate the market, any resurgence will be fleeting - "a dead cat bounce. " "I think you could easily take the position that there will never be a return to the installed base level that Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft saw with their c. 2005 consoles.