NCAA Football 08

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Legend11 said:
It could be because EA was taken by surprise by the Wii's success and by the time they had a development team set up and working on NCAA Football 2008 for the Wii it would have delayed it a few weeks. Those few weeks would have been enough to put it's release right around the time of Madden 2008 for the Wii in which case NCAA's sales would likely be lost in Madden's wake.

Legend's explanation appears to be correct. Again, the link:

http://www.gamepro.com/community/ask_pros.cfm?action=view&question_id=79345

NCAA 09 will be on the Wii. And if you look here:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4894&Itemid=50

This shows that EA began shifting its focus to the Wii at some point in Feb/March. If they hadn't begun production of NCAA by that time, it was basically too late; the other systems get a year long development cycle, and you'd be trying to push the Wii version out in about four months, 1/3 that time. Not impossible, but hard, and it's understandable why EA didn't do it.

Still, Windbane is right: even if EA is ramping up Wii production and games like NCAA will be on the Wii later (Rock Band is in the same boat, by the way -- the Wii version of Rock Band comes out well after the PS3/360 versions, because they didn't have one planned at first), it means that right now, the Wii loses out.