EA: The Wii is a legacy now

[LordTheNightKnight]

Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Squilliam said:

Ya know guys, if EA has been doing poorly AND they say they don't like the return on the Wii, doesn't that mean that to EA the Wii's return on investment was the crappiest of the platforms they supported?

EA doesn't have that many games on the Wii period. Ubisoft and Activision have more games on the Wii and are doing better. EA's games on the Wii are notioursly slapped together as well (with one exception that they blew by trying to be artsy and giving barely any marketing). Therefore they can't have even spent as much on the Wii as they keep losing.

So no, it can't be the Wii causing their woes. They only get less revenue because they release too few games anyway.

I wasn't talking about the number of games and revenue thereof or implied stupidity in creating said games they did create. All I said was: Bolded.

They may be losing money, but perhaps they make more back per game with digital distribution, free to play models and on different platforms such as iOS, Android, HD consoles, PC etc than on the Wii. Do you agree or disagree with that point?

To the first part, then I agree they are likely making less from the Wii, but as I stated, it's their own damn fault for barely supporting the Wii at all. You can't get sales from games you don't release, and people won't rush out to buy games they don't even know exist.

To the second part, it doesn't matter what other money streams they have if they still are losing money. Plus those extra money methods can be done on the Wii (just not DD on a full game, which isn't even really done that much on the 360 and PS3 either), so they don't have those excuses for not supporting the Wii either.

The fact is that if you are losing money supporting X, then to call X highly profitable is either delusion or lying.