Should EA continue to ignore Nintendo?

[MikeRox]

JNK said:

spemanig said:

The motive is it wouldn't have sold, and EA would have lost more money than if they had released it. Just like the fully complete localization of Earthbound Beginnings that never came out. No hidden motive. Just an obvious motive: money.

How should EA loose money with an already finished game?

Crysis 3 would had sell easily 100-300k on wii u (like similar aaa titles).

Even if we say just 100k. Ea would probly make 20 bucks profit per sold game (rest taxes and all the other stuff).

 

100k x 20bucks = 2mil.

 

How should they pay more then 2mil to release the game? Doesnt make any sense at all.

Sierra cancelled a 100% completed port of Half Life 2 for Dreamcast. Apparently they made more money from the tax relief in cancelling it than they would have got from releasing the game.

And a console exclusive (and upgraded) port of Half Life would have been a much bigger deal than Crysis 3. Especially with the exclusive add on pack (Blue Shift).

I wonder if EA figured something similar. Or if there really is such bad blood between them and Nintendo at the moment that they'd cut off their nose to spite their face.