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TheLastStarFighter on 27 March 2013
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bananaking21 said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
bananaking21 said:
carlos3189 said:
I don't understand people, WiiU came out 3 or 4 months ago, there hasn't been any kind of third party conference (E3, TGS, etc.), not even a Nintendo direct aimed to 3rd party support, and yet they claim WiiU is being abandoned... I see how several games are not being announced for the WiiU, but I also see how they aren't being announced for PS4 (Dead Island, Saints Row), what is the difference?


the difference is that dead island was announced before even the PS4 was announced. it is also releasing way before the PS4 is released. it is however, releasing while the WiiU would have been announced for 2 years and been on the market for over half a year

This is the most significant part of the whole thing. I think I even read the developers were looking to have BF4 working on Wii U.  I think EA really hates Nintendo.


i dont mean this as an insult or attack so please dont take me wrong, but when ever somebody says that EA hates nintendo or wants to spite them i see that as really childish, im not trying to be offensive but i really do. EA does have a point not to put battlefield on WiiU, the money they would make on the platform simply doesnt look like it would be enough. just look at CoD on the WiiU, it completely tanked, and now we are talking about a game that, is in the same genre as CoD and as you pointed out earlier, sells less. why would EA put it on the WiiU? also they risk stretching Dice thin, think about it, this is being released on 5 platforms, PC, Ps3, Xbox 360, PS4 and 720. thats A LOT it would be a lot for them to handle to release it on another platform, that will 99% wont make them any money or very little money. 

though i do say that this might come back and bite EA on the ass, if the next CoD does release on the WiiU and does have good sales, they are losing customers to CoD, and the WiiU fanebase will be CoD fans and then if EA tries to sell them battlefield later on, it will have a really hard time, as the people on WiiU already love CoD. EA could potentially lose a market in the future

It may sound childish, but it's naive to think it's not true.  Trip Hawkins felt that Nintendo had too much control, and he credited EA's succes with ignoring Nintendo and focusing on Genesis:

http://mynintendonews.com/2011/07/14/nintendo-trip-hawkins-believes-nintendo-will-eventually-lose-out-to-the-web-browser/

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/nintendo-development-system-called-feudal-by-trip-hawkins/

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-03-08-hawkins-apple-and-nintendo-changed-business-for-worse

EA has always had a view that developers should be in control. They rejected Nintendo, and have long shown support for competing systems, ones they can control. Trip brags about forcing Sega to do what they want, because Sega needed EA where Nintendo didn't.

EA has said in the past the ideal world for them will be one box, perhaps a cloud type box where developer have free reign and the console maker is irrelevant. Nintendo is the company that is furthest from their ideal model.  They want Nintendo to fail.  In the opinion of EA it is in their best interest.  They may be right. Larry Probst has stated his goals of 35%+ market share for EA software. They want world domination, and they view Nintendo - as the worlds biggest games software maker - as competition, not an ally.

Sony and MS are primarily hardware makers, as such they are a better fit for EA.