EA: Massive Layoffs on Tiburon, Black Box, Redwood Shores and Mythic

[Impulsivity]

  

MaxwellGT2000 said:
For those that don't know Redwood Shores is also Visceral Games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visceral_Games

They recently bombed with Dead Space Extraction, the original Dead Space didn't live up to EAs expectations, and with the lack of followings behind Dantes Inferno I don't see that one doing amazing well either.

In short they've been a money pit for EA, so no wonder they were a little pissy when no one bought Dead Space Extraction.

  Thats what they get for trying to make a quality hardcore game for the Wii (that doesn't star Samus).  The Wii is just not a platform for making good games that aren't published by Nintendo.  It is a platform for 1st party games and mini game collections mixed with some WTF games (like party babiez, my poniez 2 ect).

   If they had put the money into the PS3/360/PC they'd have another 2 million seller instead of a under 100k dud.  They could have spent 1/10th the dead space budget on a game called "circus games" which involves using the balance board to stay on a rolling ball under the big top and using the wiimote to whip your tiger into shape.  Guaranteed 3 million seller.