| Scoobes said: Like I said, the entire article is based on rumours that I find hard to believe. I can't imagine any publisher, even EA would be quite so ridiculous in their demands. Based on their previous arguments with Microsoft and Valve, I find it far more likely they demanded control of their own games and servers (so they would be completely out of Nintendo's control, therefore controlling Nintendo's network but only for EA games) rather than demanding Origin be Nintendo's only online service. No company can be that stupid. Guess we'll have to see if Origin has any implementations on the new Xbox/PS4 that doesn't show up WiiU before we can really guess what transpired. |
I wouldn't call it demands...
By the way the article read, Nintendo was looking for a better hosting solution for Nintendo Network, and EA's proposal was to integrate the Nintendo Network in with Origin. It isn't as ridiculous as some proposals that Nintendo has been offered in the past. Remember the original deal with Sony that made Nintendo switch to Philips? Sony's clause stated that it was entitled to ALL licensing fees paid on the SNES CD. So by this sense, I'd say Nintendo would probably be looking for some kind of outsourcing, but want to keep some kind of control/say in the matter. To EA, that would pretty much be letting somebody else dictate how to use their Origin network, so it most likely would not have worked out...
