'Crysis 3' not coming to Wii U due to lack of "business drive"

[Mr Khan]

Euphoria14 said:

Mr Khan said:

It's a worthwhile investment because, like any group of people, you have to get 'em while they're young. If EA wants people buying core EA games on Wii U, they'll get them out here now, close to launch date and with all features (none of this no DLC crap like with Mass Effect 3), to show the audience they're being serious. Ports don't cost much, so while early investments are unlikely to make them much money, they're unlikely to lose much if any money in the short term, and have an audience in the long term. Otherwise they'll have to work with only two platforms, and their inconsistent financials from this generation should tell them that the successors of PS360 won't be enough to get them consistently good results

Secondly Kyliedog's being very disingenuous by citing Blops numbers as a snapshot. Legs have given every Wii CoD respectable numbers in the long run, and so is it likely to be with Blops II. Hence, logical cherry-picking.

Meanwhile, KungKras has cited two major incidents of EA being immature babies in the past (Trip Hawkins throwing a literal hissy fit over having to support the NES and EA's "total sports exclusivity or fuck you" ultimatum to Sega for Dreamcast). Granted, that is the past, and corporate structure might change in time, but precedent is in favor of EA just being a bunch of babies over this, and using logical cherry-picking of their own to justify their own immaturity.

If Nintendo isn't serious about creating a shooter base on their console it isn't EA's job to do it. Sony and MS both cater to those demographics and because of that these types of games thrive. So if the game will do more than fine on just those (2), why lose money to *try* and create that audience on the WiiU?

Want more of those games on WiiU? Tell Nintendo to start catering to that audience as well.

 

It isn't EAs job to lose money to create something Nintendo should be also trying to do themselves. Nobody owes Nintendo anything.

 

Also, Kyliedog isn't cherry picking because there is nothing right now to prove that these games will have legs on the WiiU. He is seeing the same thing the guys at EA are and that is that if CoD finishes a holiday season with 160k, what is Crysis3 going to do releasing in February?

The answer is that it will be a bad use of company resources. Better to wait for the userbase to grow and a shooter base to get large enough to support a game like Crysis, which doesn't sell 10M per console like a CoD.

It isn't about owing Nintendo anything. It's about investing, and promoting growth in the future.

Imagine if a company were so bold as to put high-quality games on Nintendo platforms that complemented Nintendo's games and did not directly compete with them. That company would be immensely successful. But no third party has the foresight to do anything but play follow the leader, leaving the burden for innovation and leadership on Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.