No, it's the way of bad business.  Apple seems to be okay.  Berkshire Hathaway and Johnson and Johnson seem to be fine.  Activision just doesn't do business well.  How in Holy Hell do you possess World of Warcraft as a money source and somehow the Activision wing is still able to put the whole company in the red?

The only wat there getting 3rd party is that they make their games for them or bribe them with money. Oh, and you can never lose what you never had.

If we see a Wii 2 this Year Worldwide, and Nintendo discontinues the Wii, what would the chances be of the 360 or PS3 ever reaching the Wii's total and thus winning the generation?

I hope the Wii 2 releases this Year...

HD consoles are in full swing in my opinion (in terms of quality and quantity of games and sales aren't too bad either..).

I don' want to see a sucessor to the wii released this year and probably not even next year. However, I don't see the wii enticing hd console owners (if they don't already own a wii that is...) this year or the next given the amount of games we have to look forward to. And are 'casual' (e.g., people who picked up the wii for an odd game of wii sport) gamers really going to open their pockets again for the wii 2? Hopefully for Nintendo's sake, yes.

Yeah, the guys a filthy liar. There was no "re" in the allocation, and they're just trying to make up more bullshit about their refusal to properly reallocate even a decent fraction of their support to the Wii.

Bribing to support it is too good for them. They should be forced to support it (as they'd get customers and their money anyway) and admit they were wrong about the system, as that is what they really seem to hate the thought of.

To reallocate resources implies that they were allocated to the Wii in the first place, which is simply untrue no matter which way you stretch it

I thought EA was the one that seems to be becoming a legacy.

So they don't even know they are losing money.

Seriously, that is either the most stupid and/or the most delusional thing I've heard from developers in... months.

You've heard worse? Pm me links if you don't feel like derailing this thread, and I'll be the judge of that.

Keep dreamin..

First of all, a new Nintendo console is not coming this year. In fact, it is unlikely that it'll even come next year. Second, even if it did come this year, the HD consoles have 0 chance to reach Wii's sales. Boggles my mind that there are a few out there that still believe this could happen.

In response to the topic, I think it's funny that EA says third party on Wii is a difficult investment. It is only difficult because they make it that way. If you honestly can't find a way to churn up a decent success with an 85 million userbase, you'd have to figure the problem is not with the console, but YOUR company. If they actually tried to succeed on the platform, or figuring out the audience, instead of just shrugging their shoulders and throwing out terrible shovelware and ports, they might find decent success. The fact is, third parties WANT the Wii to be dead, because it means no Nintendo games to compete with. Third parties have abused the hell outta Wii this gen, and the fact that THEY actually try to sound like the victim is laughable.