NBA JAM - no online for wii version confirmed

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oniyide said:

im sorry but some of you are not getting the game because it went multi???? I could see if the no online thing bothered people but, that was rumored even b4 the game going multi rumor came about.  Someone brought up Dead Space b4 but that games been out for a while and was a certified flop. Waaaaaay b4 the Move version was even announced. If Jam is going to be on PSN/Live then I have no problem getting it. The Wii version can keep its extra mode, its not worth the extra 25-35 bucks

Funny how in the same breath you say "Wii version can keep its extra mode, its not worth the extra 25-35 bucks" and yet you say you don't undertand Wii owners being upset

People will not be getting the game not because it went Multi, but because it went multi with features the Wii version doesn't have and for what appears to be a much lower price point. And while no online was indeed not a surprise, it was ok when no other version existed with online, but no longer ok when a version with online has appeared, what's hard to understand about that?

Regarding Dead Space, the reason it was brought up was not because of the MOVE version  (which surprise surprise, will cost like a downloadable and not the full $50 Wii players had to pay) but because it was another example of EA messing with their Wii audience and not owning up to it. You might not recall but there was a HUGE backlash that happened all over the Internet when it turned out Extraction would be on rails, many months before it started selling. So it was a known flop for anyone with eyes in their heads from the moment it was announced to be on rails. And yet EA continued on and actually used it as their justification to stop any "hardcore" games for the Wii.

And now this is happening again - EA is coming out with  a game that has caused a backlash within its target audience, will probably flop (at least relatively, though not as bad as Extraction) because of everything they did, and they will again say it's the Wii audience fault. So in THAT regard it's like Extraction.