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Nintendo refused Origin. That's my only guess.
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Yes, that is all about it.
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Or maybe big games like CoD/ME/AC all bombed on the WiiU and the preorders of NFS are non existent?
I mean we can blame the lack of Origin support as much as we want, but when will we start blaming the atrocious sales of 3rd party games?
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While this might be true, the game was pretty much ready to launch, so it sounds to me that the losses have already been made and even if the WiiU version sold poorly they could've reduced the losses a tiny bit.
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Maybe the cost of finishing the game and publishing it would have been to high to justify the release? I mean we are looking at sales that would have probabaly been under 100k LT, and the majority would have come from bargain bin sales.
Maybe EA much rather focused that money on advertising the PC/360/PS3, and by the looks of it, the game will do decent numbers.
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"But there was a lack of business support between Nintendo and EA on that"
This quote says otherwise.
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That quote means nothing at all. We could speculate what exactly it means but we will probably never know for certain.
IMO what we can say for sure is that things like these never have just one side, and decisions are made by more factors: Nintendos deteriorating relationship with EA (Origin issues or not), bad financial performance of previosu WiiU titles, not enough dev/advertising muscle left for a 4th editiion etc.
People are jumping at EAs trotha for not supporting the WiiU, but it looks like Origin could have been a better idea for online integration. It is better to get ports, than no games at all.
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I've used Origin and it sucks. I'm glad that Nintendo didn't incorperate it into their online. EA has become a "big bully" and nothing more.
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Every company dreams to be the big bully. You cannot fault them for that.
Nintendo was a big bully during last gen when the Wii and DS where selling amazing numbers, Sony was before that, Activision and Microsoft are doing the same now.
Its called a business strategy, and lets be honest EA is doing some pretty good one for a couple of decades now 
