EA down on Wii, but not out - willing to work with Nintendo to make software sell

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outlawauron said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

outlawauron said:

Well, see, they do call out when their HD games sell under expectations. They did last year when Mirror's Edge and Dead Space both started under expectations.

Considering both those games sold over a million, once again, they shouldn't be complaining.  Of course, they probably WANTED those games to sell more.  But that's the problem.  EA spends way too much money producing its games and expects all its games to sell more then they do.

They made those comments well before either game came close to a million. They has good legs and managed to sell well in the end due to positive word of mouth.

Neither game sold near what EA expected, even though they reviewed amazingly well and had fast/steep price cuts.  They wanted 3 million alone for Mirror's Edge, it sold about a third that.

EA's Wii comments are just odd really given they had no significant Wii releases this quarter, bar multiplatform fare like Madden or FIFA (both of which they've clearly mismanaged), and revenues nearly doubled from the platform year on year, pushing it to 2nd place ahead of PS3.  When put in context, it really does ring like scapegoating.