| Machiavellian said: Reading this link link it appears it was more that both platform owner and publisher could not come to terms. As the CEO of Crytek says, since they do not have a publishing agreement with Nintendo there is nothing they could do about it. http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/crytek-says-that-its-nintendo-wii-u-version-of-crysis-3-had-to-die/ |
Not really the same situation since EA was certainly not paid by MS and Sony to kill the Wii U version. They just didn't see it as worth doing. It doesn't mean that Crytek could have just decided to self publish it without EA's okay if they were a licensed Nintendo publisher. All we can conclude from this is that they aren't a Nintendo publisher and didn't see it as worthwhile to become one, so the story ends there.
If we're agreeing that EA has the exclusive right to publish Titanfall, then not only does that preclude Respawn from signing a deal for Activision or anyone else to publish it, too... it would also prevent Respawn from self publishing a version to directly compete with EA's release. (In other words, bank on Titanfall being an Origin exclusive on PC and not seeing a Respawn published Steam release.)
