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Dr.JimmyRustles said:
I get titillated every time someone thinks EA is a rational business when they're clearly not. Do some research and look up the events from: Dragon age 2 reviews, to KotOR, and finish it up with Mass effect 3 fallout, or remain ignorant, your choice.

How could you mistake a madman running wild for a rational person?



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Carl2291 said:
JayWood2010 said:
Carl2291 said:
JayWood2010 said:
melbye said:
I don't think it would have that big of a deal if EA hadn't come out on Nintendo's stage E3 2011 and talked about how awesome the WiiU was and this was the beginning of an unprecedented partnership between EA and Nintendo

So do you think from a business stand point it is worth making games for a console that has 3m units in the wild and EA games just dont well well in the 1st place on nintendo consoles?  How does it make sense from a business standpoint releasing games yet on them.  It is up to Nintendo to give them a reason to and they havent.

Youre doing this wrong.

How many units have PS4 / Nextbox sold? How many games will EA currently have in development for said consoles?


Difference is, EA's biggest franchises sell well on MSFT/Sony consoles.  On nintendo consoles they sell next to nothing.


Where is the proof? Give me names, games, numbers.


Fine.  Do you really think me (Jay) would make a controversial thread without having some kind of backup? Keep in mind the Wii has also outsold the X360/PS3

Madden

X360 - 18m
PS3 - 12m
Wii - 4m

FiFA

X360 - 21m
PS3 - 28m
Wii - FiFa - 5m

Need for Speed 

X360 - 13m
PS3 - 14m
Wii - 4m

This list goes on and on.






       

the way i see it is that for their flagship franchises nintendo fans matter very little to EA anyway



They are making 0 effort to sell games, they make 0 sales.

Also, the issue is that they didn't even TRY to put frostbite on the U. They gave it a quick shot and said "fuck it".



Nintendo should have released a more powerful system to at least get some ports from infinity or ps4....too bad they went cheap and now paying the price



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This is the last i'll say on the matter as i'm trying to avoid things that make me mad on this site.

This is not about port-begging.
This is not necessarily about wanting the games in question at all.
This is about the glaringly obvious fact that EA is picking on Nintendo specifically. Why? We don't know precisely, a number of plausible theories are floated around, but the facts remain that there was a very slim time between EA's words being "hooray for the glorious Wii U" and then their first games and subsequent actions suggesting that the Nintendo base was something unpleasant Ricitiello had just scraped off his boot.
This is about EA being completely two-faced (frostbyte works on PS360 but not on Wii U? No. That is a baldfaced lie), about them spouting total bullshit. It's about the usual suspects saying "oh, but EA is a dispassionate business." It is also, unfortunately, about several posters i respect and the rift that emerged between us (notably Carl and Kresnik, here) because i called EA on their horseshit and they, unfortunately, subscribed to the idea that EA is not acting like the most vainglorious, swollen-headed bunch of pricks ever to grace the industry since EA themselves back in the Dreamcast days.

This is about the worst company in the industry and their idea that they can sink one of the big three, the fanboys who defend it to further their anti-Nintendo agenda, and a few respectable posters who have gotten caught in the crossfire.

I apologize if I have been over-harsh (especially to, again, Carl and Kresnik). I've been angry lately for some reason that i cannot gather (part of me suspects hormones, as my life is generally going pretty well, but this is rather tangental) and i've used VGChartz and this whole debacle to vent this mystery-rage.

These are the facts of the matter. Anything else is either misunderstanding or FUD.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

JayWood2010 said:
Carl2291 said:
JayWood2010 said:
Carl2291 said:
JayWood2010 said:
melbye said:
I don't think it would have that big of a deal if EA hadn't come out on Nintendo's stage E3 2011 and talked about how awesome the WiiU was and this was the beginning of an unprecedented partnership between EA and Nintendo

So do you think from a business stand point it is worth making games for a console that has 3m units in the wild and EA games just dont well well in the 1st place on nintendo consoles?  How does it make sense from a business standpoint releasing games yet on them.  It is up to Nintendo to give them a reason to and they havent.

Youre doing this wrong.

How many units have PS4 / Nextbox sold? How many games will EA currently have in development for said consoles?


Difference is, EA's biggest franchises sell well on MSFT/Sony consoles.  On nintendo consoles they sell next to nothing.


Where is the proof? Give me names, games, numbers.


Fine.  Do you really think me (Jay) would make a controversial thread without having some kind of backup? Keep in mind the Wii has also outsold the X360/PS3

Madden

X360 - 18m
PS3 - 12m
Wii - 4m

FiFA

X360 - 21m
PS3 - 28m
Wii - FiFa - 5m

Need for Speed 

X360 - 13m
PS3 - 14m
Wii - 4m

This list goes on and on.



How much profit did each version rake in? The half-assed Wii versions were much cheaper to develop, so they could have raked in as much profit as the HD versions...



The real reason why EA isnt supporting nintendo. though some people just cant accept that. to put thing things into perspective the Need for speed version on vita outsold all these combined. its nothing to do with hate, conspirasies or what ever. its purely business.

 

1 Madden NFL 13 WiiU 2012 Sports Electronic Arts 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.03
1 Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game WiiU 2013 Racing Electronic Arts 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.02
1 FIFA Soccer 13 WiiU 2012 Action Electronic Arts 0.03 0.03 0.00 0.01 0.07
1 Mass Effect 3 WiiU 2012 Role-Playing Electronic Arts 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.05


KHlover said:

How much profit did each version rake in? The half-assed Wii versions were much cheaper to develop, so they could have raked in as much profit as the HD versions...

A much more meaningful number I might say so myself.



happydolphin said:
KHlover said:

How much profit did each version rake in? The half-assed Wii versions were much cheaper to develop, so they could have raked in as much profit as the HD versions...

A much more meaningful number I might say so myself.

Honestly, every normal dev would shed tears of joy if his game sold 5Mil copies...