EA’s “Unprecedented Partnership” with Nintendo and Other Fairy Tales...

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Osc89 said:

JEMC said:

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The article says they had this "unprecedented partnership" from E3 2011 until somewhere between June and September of the following year. EA wouldn't have done this (as well as giving them free advice, lots of support and going on stage at E3) for no reason. They must have believed Origin was going on the Wii U, but how could EA think Origin was going on the Wii U for over a year unless Nintendo said it was? Nintendo must have had a deal prepared, or were at the very least leading EA on.

Relations were broken before E3 2012. Just remember who appeared on stage during Nintendo's E3 conference: the CEOs of Warner and Ubisoft. After being present at their 2011 conference EA was absent during their 2012 one. Strong partnership? Not any more.

And remember that we are still going by the rumor that it was caused by the use or not of Origin, something that we still don't know for sure. How could EA thought that Nintendo would agree to use Origin? I don't know.

What if the problem was that the initial deal stated that Nintendo would allow EA to include Origin for their games but then they tried to force every game to use Origin "because they could use it to chat with their friends even while playing different games" and Nintendo said no?

What if EA tried use Origin to link games/discs with users to prevent the second hand and Nintendo was against it?

What if it was Nintendo that changed their mind and said no to allow EA to use Origin for their games?

Since no one has said anything, we don't know what happened, who did what and who's fault is all this.