| JEMC said: 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. |
You are completely right, it could have been all sorts of things that EA wanted out of this. But something got them on stage at E3 and throw so much support to Nintendo, and whatever it was Nintendo let them believe it. EA are almost certainly bad guys in this, because they are generally pretty terrible, but Nintendo must have made some mistakes here. I don't think it is ok to just jump on the "Nintendo is perfect, Wii U doing badly because of everyone else" train every time.
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