Dead Space iOs better tan Wii version?

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RolStoppable said:

Doobie_wop said:

RolStoppable said:

Because EA missed the Wii and to convince investors that they made the right decision by doing that, they had to sabotage many of their Wii games to make them sell less than they could potentially have.

Dead Space Extraction is a prime example of this as before its release EA openly said that it was a test to see how such games sell on the Wii. While at first most suspected this was just said to trick Wii owners in buying the game in order to support mature hardcore games on the Wii, it's pretty clear by now that it actually was a message to investors to pay close attention to this game's sales. And just like that, DSE now serves as EA's ultimate excuse to not have to bother with serious Wii support anymore.

EA is about making money, I doubt they went out of their way to sabotage another path of revenue just to stick it to Nintendo and Nintendo fans. EA aren't the only company that have had trouble selling games on the Wii and like most other publishers, they've found that other audiences are more open to spend money on their products, so they shift resources around to provide for the people who are actually buying third party games.

EA has been losing money for years and they needed a scapegoat. Let's look at their possible excuses when investors ask them about their current position:

1. We made bad decisions, predicted the market wrong and as a result our company is on the decline now.

Not viable, suggests that the company is badly managed.

2. Our current position is not our fault, it's because consumers of a certain gaming platform are very picky about their purchases and it's not in our powers to change anything about that.

Viable, puts the whole blame on Nintendo.

Your argument rests on the premise that EA knows how to do business, but they haven't been profiting for quite some time now. All of EA's major development teams are and have been working on games that won't be released on the Wii. Your claim is that non-Nintendo platforms make them more money, but there is no evidence for that to be true.

Quite the contrary is the case. Last generation EA didn't need any Nintendo platform to post profits, but now they are apparently dependent on them to make money. What this basically means is that something has gone horribly wrong for them on non-Nintendo platforms this generation.

Oh and btw I am a fan of you Rol :D! i visit this site since last year and your arguments are great, and you make funny  threads :)

looking forward to one of your threads :P