Should EA continue to ignore Nintendo?

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pokoko said:

killerbeed said:
Not sure If anyone has posted this yet But I remember Emily rogers wrote a very good piece on this which I think everyone should read
http://www.psu.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-308327.html

I alluded to it earlier but, yes, EA and Nintendo have very rarely seen eye-to-eye.  I think EA has zero faith in being able to sell games on Nintendo systems unless they have a massive installed base behind them.  Part of that is because of the audience but the other part, the part that bothers many third-party publishers, is that Nintendo has historically done very little to push sales for anything but their own software.  The rise of Playstation and Xbox gave publishers and developers alternatives that were willing to work with them for mutually beneficial results.

I don't know that EA wants Nintendo to fail, exactly, but I am pretty sure that they think it's much more advantageous for them if Playstation or Xbox is the market leader.

That's a good sensible post. I imagine that probably most, if not all 3rd party publishers prefer Nintendo not to be the market leader purely down to the fact that their games wont sell the type of numbers they would on a market leading Playstation or Xbox.