Thunderbird77 on 23 February 2016
| RolStoppable said: Let's see... 1. It looks like EA blames Nintendo for the low sales of their Wii U software, but it was EA's decision to put half-assed ports on the system, therefore it was EA's fault that sports fans didn't bite. 2. EA wants Nintendo to bundle EA Sports games with NX hardware. The way this works between console manufacturers and third parties is that any given console manufacturer has to have reason to assume that the bundled game will move hardware. This makes good ports of EA Sports games a prerequisite, but that's a requirement that EA is unlikely to fulfill because even in a best case scenario they would only put third string teams on the ports. The underlying point here is that EA wants to get a lot of money for inadequate support and they probably believe that they are being reasonable. I can only hope that Nintendo laughs at them and makes their own Wii Sports successor. Not only would that give Nintendo access to sports games fans at a much cheaper cost, it would also bring in more of them. And then what is EA going to do? Ignore the entire installed base? Sure, they could do that, but it's not like it would matter. The same holds true for any other multiplatform game. It would just be Nintendo flushing money down the toilet. If third parties want their games bundled with the hardware, they first need to prove that their games sell hardware. Otherwise it's an unreasonable demand that should be dismissed instantly. |
Almost all of this. a successor of wii sports is not needed but sports games from nintendo would be good. the situation isn't the same for every 3rd party games, just the lazy ones.
