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RubberWhistleHistle on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
EA cancelled at 100% completed Crysis 3 that was ready to be shipped and everything. It makes me wonder what their motive is with all this shit? They couldn't even ship out a completed game? They straight up say NO to a few extra bucks, but FOR WHAT? Like you said, they don't have NFS listed on their website. WHY? im sure they have some copies to sell. There seems to be something deeper going on. Something that causes EA to not take any money resulting from a Nintendo product whatsoever. What is the motive??


The motive is it wouldn't have sold, and EA would have lost more money than if they had released it. Just like the fully complete localization of Earthbound Beginnings that never came out. No hidden motive. Just an obvious motive: money.

It would have sold though. they lost money by not shipping it out. what is the point in making a game if youre not going to ship it out? all the sudden you decide it isnt going to sell enough? well then they shouldnt have fuckin ported it to the wii u in the first place.



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JNK on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
JNK said:

why?


Because it would be the digital version of a game of an unpopular genre to the audience of an unpopular platform who's primary form of media is physical.

That's why.


do you any numbers about wii u´s digitale sales to back this up?



RubberWhistleHistle on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
JNK said:

How should EA loose money with an already finished game?

Crysis 3 would had sell easily 100-300k on wii u (like similar aaa titles).

Even if we say just 100k. Ea would probly make 20 bucks profit per sold game (rest taxes and all the other stuff).

 

100k x 20bucks = 2mil.

 

How should they pay more then 2mil to release the game? Doesnt make any sense at all.


Because the production and time wasted to potentially make only $2 million could instead be used on other projects guaranteed to make at least $100 million.

the thing you arent understanding is that they had already took the time and effort to complete the game for wii u BEFORE the falling out between the two companies. the falling out caused them to decide that it wasnt worth it, however it was worth it before, clearly. so it goes back to my original question, what is REALLY going on here? it clearly isnt just about money.



Frogger on 31 August 2015
RubberWhistleHistle said:

the thing you arent understanding is that they had already took the time and effort to complete the game for wii u BEFORE the falling out between the two companies. the falling out caused them to decide that it wasnt worth it, however it was worth it before, clearly. so it goes back to my original question, what is REALLY going on here? it clearly isnt just about money.


Companies complete games they never release all the time. I literally just cited a time Nintendo did the same thing on their own platform. It's not "more about money," it's only about money.



Frogger on 31 August 2015
JNK said:

do you any numbers about wii u´s digitale sales to back this up?


Literally every singly financial report nintendo has ever issued.



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RubberWhistleHistle on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:

the thing you arent understanding is that they had already took the time and effort to complete the game for wii u BEFORE the falling out between the two companies. the falling out caused them to decide that it wasnt worth it, however it was worth it before, clearly. so it goes back to my original question, what is REALLY going on here? it clearly isnt just about money.


Companies complete games they never release all the time. I literally just cited a time Nintendo did the same thing on their own platform. It's not "more about money," it's only about money.

so the falling out had nothing to do with holding back the release of this version of the game?



Frogger on 31 August 2015
RubberWhistleHistle said:

It would have sold though. they lost money by not shipping it out. what is the point in making a game if youre not going to ship it out? all the sudden you decide it isnt going to sell enough? well then they shouldnt have fuckin ported it to the wii u in the first place.


They figured they would have made more money by not shipping it out and using that time, effort, and money on something that likely did make more money. As Nintendo what's the point of making a game and not shipping it out. That's what happened with Mother.



Frogger on 31 August 2015
RubberWhistleHistle said:

so the falling out had nothing to do with holding back the release of this version of the game?

No. It has to do with the Wii U not being a platform where EA games would sell.



RubberWhistleHistle on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:

It would have sold though. they lost money by not shipping it out. what is the point in making a game if youre not going to ship it out? all the sudden you decide it isnt going to sell enough? well then they shouldnt have fuckin ported it to the wii u in the first place.


They figured they would have made more money by not shipping it out and using that time, effort, and money on something that likely did make more money. As Nintendo what's the point of making a game and not shipping it out. That's what happened with Mother.

localization requires more time invested into the project though. in the case of crysis, they didnt have to do any further modification to the game. surely, that accounts for something, doesnt it? ive heard of plenty of games failing to be localized to other regions, but ive never heard of a completed port being canned. ever. 



RubberWhistleHistle on 31 August 2015
spemanig said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:

so the falling out had nothing to do with holding back the release of this version of the game?

No. It has to do with the Wii U not being a platform where EA games would sell.

are you 100% POSITIVE about that? lol. It really just sounds like you just want it to be true.

I, on the other hand, do not know what the true story is behind this game not being shipped out. In fact, I would say nobody does besides the people running EA. Again, I have never heard of a port being completed and then not shipped out. They have already made the decision to invest time and recourses in it, and they obviously would have made money on it, so it makes for a very curious situation. It isn't adding up in my mind.