Safe To Say 3rd Party Support From Wii U Is Pretty Much Gone?

[MikeRox]

Aielyn said:

Are you really saying that PS2 owners would have bought yet another reskinned version (there's no sign that they even did that, by the way - VGChartz doesn't even have any numbers for the PS2 version of Fifa 13 or 14, suggesting it didn't even sell well enough to register), but Wii U owners wouldn't?

I find it funny that you suggest that they kept selling the PS2 version despite its dramatic plummet in sales, yet they couldn't do the same thing for Wii U, for which it was nothing but a launch title lacking in features.

"EA didn't choose not to release FIFA 14 out of spite is the reality of the matter" is something you have to back up, at this point. EA announced Mass Effect Trilogy just a couple of months before release of the Wii U, thus sabotaging Mass Effect 3 on the system. They announced major new innovations in Madden and Fifa, and then announced that the Wii U versions wouldn't get those innovations (and review scores for Fifa were around 90 for PS3/360, and around 70 for Wii U - think about that). They delayed only the Wii U version of Need for Speed, and announced before its release that it was going to be EA's last title (I give props to the devs for putting so much effort into the game, but EA themselves sent it to die).

well they clearly did, however the levels the most recent one sold were the cut off point. Development costs for the reskins are far cheaper for a standard definition console than the HD of the Wii U. I'd wager also that Nintendo want far more royalties per unit for a Wii U title, than Sony were asking for a PS2 game.

Also as you say, they got enough flack for releasing a "substandard" FIFA in the first place, yet then you advocate reskinning said "gimped" release? I don't blame EA tbh.

As for backing it up. Not really, it's not my job to back up that a company deliberately chooses not to release products because they would lose money. The onus would be on you to prove that it was viable for EA to release FIFA 14 on Wii U. Which I don't think it would have been, and my evidence of this is based on the abysmal sales of FIFA 13 on Wii U combined with EA choosing not to bother.

If you have evidence to suggest EA are deliberately turning profits down however, feel free.

I won't derail anymore, but you have to realise that your argument really is saying a major multinational is turning down profit out of spite. I guess they were spiting SEGA too when they didn't release any games on the Dreamcast, which incidentally, was performing better in the marketplace in the same timespan.