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

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RicardJulianti said:

Arcturus said:

A lot can change over the period of a year and a half. Relationships between companies can change, markets change. That does not make EA a "hippocrite". Things changed and EA decided not to support the console as much as the vague "Unprecedented Partnership" implied.

"It is the first next-generation platform coming out, so we're really supporting it"

"what we’re describing as ‘Gen 4′ is yet to come. It’s that we’re excited about, and that’s what we’re investing in.”

Those two quotes are over the span of 7 months. They most likely had dev kits from Sony and MS when they made the first comment, so it's not like they just went "Oh, well....hmmm....these have so much more power, we are going to pull the plug on what we've been working on"

They say one thing (we're really supporting it) but do another (actively cannibalize ME3 sales among other things). Fire in one hand, water in the other. The very definition of hypocrisy. To say they have a "strong partnership with Nintendo" and they are "really supporting it" but do the exact opposite is absolutely hypocrisy.

7 months is a long time in business terms and very long in a fast moving tech-based industry. I don't think you can go so far as to call it hypocrisy when the details surrounding the relationship between the two companies is completely unknown. All we're seeing are the results of a soured relationship without the benefit of all the information.