Alex Ward (Criterion co-founder) talks NFS WiiU; EA; Nintendo & his new game

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Dgc1808 said:

melbye said:
It is not Nintendo's job to sell a 3rd party games, especially one that is released six months after the versions on other consoles

The man says he complained when the publisher didn't bother to press discs. In response to the late port statement, the guy says that they just did the coding and had no control over when it releases. It sounds like one of two things happened here:

1) They had the game ready around the same time as the other systems and neither Nintendo nor EA care to get it out there at that time.
2) The game was finished significantly later than the other platforms, but still at the time that they were asked to deliver it. Meaning they were told to let the WiiU version take less priority than the other versions. Once it was done, there was still some delay on the Publisher's side due to a lack of interest.

Either way, the late release seemed completely out of their control and they did talk to both Nintendo and EA to try to get it out more timely.

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He also mentions that they worked "through new year", so they did the best to finish the game (and they did a pretty good job I may add), but it was the publisher that chosed the release date and price, and that was one of the biggest complains about the game, it was a late port with a very high price when compared to the other console versions.

Nintendo failed specially because the game did feature some extra stuff exclusive for the console, so they could had marketed the game especially if you add that the line-up was not very strong during that time. But EA screw it up big time, by charging too much, no advertising at all and physical release delay in Europe as the developer mentions.

It was very sad to see such a good title get caught in the battle between the companies, and it was around this time that the "we are not going to work on any title for Nintendo" news came around