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redspear on 26 February 2009
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jammy2211 said:
redspear said:
jammy2211 said:
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Learnt their lesson from what? Not to release sequels to big selling PS360 games?

EA are supporting in the Wii in the way that'll print them the most dollar. I see no problem.

 

 Well no the lesson is adequate and proper support for the Wii. Which is something they stated. They had lost a fairly significant amount of money last year and they did blame a lot of it on that. But all I see out of  EA is hte same thing they did last year.

And what exactly isn't 'proper and adequate' about the support announced? A game every fortnight all catering to markets that have proven sellers on the console. Seems like they're being very sensible to me.

 I see no problem, EA financial problems stretch well beyond the games they're releasing and whether they're selling enough copies or not. Aside from the restructuring eating up a huge amount of money, we are in a recession, yanno.

Quick Cash ins are a problem on the Wii because many just aren't that good. They sell and they are neccessary to fund some riskier products but companies seem to be very imbalanced about risky projects(original IPs) and Quick Cash ins on the Wii.

 

And how exactly is any of that a problem for EA's finances? :/

Becasue eventual the market for those quick cash ins saturate. The Riskier projects actually bring in a ton of money and create new cash in oppurtinties down the line. They haven't shown any thing different even in the number of titles.

 

Last years releaeses included

1. Rock Band -- 1,034,800 units (standalone disc and Special Edition)
2. Madden NFL 09 All-Play -- 600,000
3. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play -- 493,500
4. NERF N-Strike -- 490,000
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 -- 455,000
6. Boom Blox -- 422,000
7. EA Playground -- 334,000
8. Rock Band 2 -- 284,000 (standalone disc and Special Edition)
9. MySims -- 255,000
10. Hasbro Family Game Night -- 227,000

MySims Kingdom -- 206,000
NCAA Football 09 All-Play -- 205,000
Monopoly -- 180,000
NBA Live 09 All-Play -- 130,000
Skate It -- 117,000
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 -- 117,000
SimCity Creator -- 101,700
Littlest Pet Shop -- 101,500
Need for Speed: Undercover -- 92,000
FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play -- 90,000
Boogie Superstar -- 85,500
Ninja Reflex -- 70,000
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 -- 55,700
Celebrity Sports Showdown -- 44,800
Facebreaker K.O. Party -- 44,700

 Pretty much the same gneres same titles and same number. The biggest release was Rock Band. Everything else a cheap cash in and they still lost 650 million last year.