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Barozi on 03 July 2013
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Zero999 said:
Barozi said:
Zero999 said:

It's the same investiment for every platform and the "little returns" is not true. EA titles sold poorly on wii u because of auto sabotage from EA.

EA is sabotaging all platforms equally. Their efforts were incredibly poor on 360 and they still sold enough copies to make sequel after sequel (so it paid off in the end). PS3 versions at the time were in 90% of all cases the inferior versions.

need for speed was what, 5 months late? mass effect 3 came a week after the trilogy on every platform except wii u. madden and fifa were 2012 versions renamed as 2013. that's intentionally sabotageing the games for them to sell bad and give an excuse not to release more games.

Yup and I just explained that they did the same thing with PS3 and Xbox 360, except that FIFA 13 on WiiU is much better than FIFA 06 on 360, Madden NFL 13 is also better than Madden NFL 06, NFS Most Wanted on WiiU is better than NFS Carbon on PS3 (which also came out later as I already pointed out).

And while Mass Effect 3 had an unfortunate timing on WiiU, you can't really blame them for charging full price for it (though they should've included the DLCs) or that they didn't port the whole trilogy.
Mass Effect trilogy on WiiU would have involved porting all three games, which means 3 times the investment and 3 times the development time (or getting more people that are working on other projects to the WiiU project). Which also means that it needs to sell 3 times as much as ME3 alone to break even.