Cobretti2 said:
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EA and activsion didn't like the Wii with all the shovelware they sold on it? Anyway whether they liked it doesn't change the fact that it was hugely successful and thus has them paying attention. So many people on here thought the Wii U would sell at worst 40m (back before it launched) simply because it was follow up to the wii, I imagine Ea and Activision were no different.
And a stage visit by an executive of EA doesn't disprove that claim unless you take "ignore" as literally as not sending them dev kits or not speaking/responding to them. Did Nintendo consult with them and ask what power they wanted from next gen hardware, what their ambitions were, what achitecture they were with, what power bracket they would need to meet to be in the same bracket as other platforms (PS4/X1). If Nintendo did ask those questions and responded with the Wii U then thats the equivalent of ignoring third parties, if Nintendo didn't ask those question, that too is ignoring them.
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3rd parites used Wii for shovelware sales to prop up their PS360 game development raising costs. That is how they used the Wii not to give te core gamers great games. None of that profit ever went int a blockbuster game on Wii.
Look at Rockstar used carnival games to save themselves and used that money to finish of GTA4. They were on the brink of bankrupcy due to how much they spent on GTA4 kind of like a lot of great devs that backed the PS3 early on and spent HUGE money thinkign the PS3 would ell like the PS2. RIP Free Radicals and Factor 5 to name a couple great devs.
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I know, but the fact that it was low cost and a cash centre from 2007/10 meant they they of course saw use in it as you described, that use was incentive for them to continue paying attention to Nintendo as they moved onto a new system which they thought would have been a similar profit centre Whether it was their ideal system isn't necessarily the point. I'm sure plenty more devs like the PSV as hardware over mobile platforms, but at the end of the day most follow money. Just reinfrocing the point that EA had every reason to suddenly be on stagein 2011 whereas they weren't in previous E3s
