Electronic Arts president Frank Gibeau has said the future of music peripherals for titles such as Rock Band is unclear following weak sales.

Speaking in an interview at this year’s GamesCom event in Cologne, Gibeau said EA had performed reasonably well in terms of market share so far this year, but expressed concern over big price point item sales in a market that "appears to have gone soft".

"I’m really pleased where we’re at," he explained, "but also plastic’s way down, so a lot of the music category stuff is not as robust as it’s been, and it’s unclear whether a lot of this peripheral activity that’s happening is going to stick. $125, $115, $99 price points for these things - it appears to have gone soft right now in the market place.

"But for standalone software titles that are high quality, from us? I feel good about it. I look at our first half, our Q2, I feel good about our company, our line-up. We’re not as exposed to some of those other issues - year-on-year our Q4 is going to be very dramatic in terms of the titles released."