Electronic Arts Plays Catch-Up After Shrugging Off Wii's Appeal (Bloomberg)

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Shane said:

Third parties have never done well for Nintendo. Even EA's most optimistic expectations are to finish second, which EA never does.

I still vote silly.

Zelda was designed for Cube. Then they tacked the Wii features onto it. This isn't indicative of whether it's better on one or the other, but this is the exact thing third parties have been accused of doing.

 3rd parties never did well on Nintendo?  Then why did they make tons of games on their systems before Sony came into the picture? Nintendo proceeded to mess themselves up more than anything by refusing to adapt to the changing market, I understand that perfectly well, but that's another story.

Btw, if you haven't noticed, this generation Sony is getting the smaller install base AND putting out a significantly higher number of 1st party software titles.  Doesn't that sound a lot like someone else the last 2 generations? Oh, and not to mention that a fair amount of their 3rd party sales are rather disappointing as well.  Let's even mention that companies are starting to delay their ps3 titles or starting to porting them to the 360. 

 

The Wii has a swelling user base in all 3 regions, versus Microsoft's 1 and a half regions or PS3's 2 poor regional sales with 1 unknown as of yet, which console looks the most promising overall?  Can developers wait for the PS3's install base to increase?  If the can, how long CAN they wait?  Or will they even try to wait?  We've seen a lot of changes in the last few months, and if the Wii keeps selling out in all 3 regions (which it look like it will until June at the earliest), then how will 3rd parties react?  Even withe the PS3's launch in Europe, the Wii is still pulling ahead overall and even catching up to the 360 in North America alone.

 

Sony's strengths over the previous generations aren't applying here, the PS3 isn't the same kind of hardware that the PSX and PS2 were.  And it's competition is VERY different and much more flexible than the competition of the previous Playstation consoles.