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superchunk on 30 August 2012

"The new hardware's going to be out in about a year's time," he said.

Really, that's the only part I actually cared about. ;)



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Conegamer on 30 August 2012
M.U.G.E.N said:
Conegamer said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Conegamer said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Conegamer said:
Good for next-gen, WiiU won't be drowned by shovelware from EA, good.


I'm sorry but this post screaaaaaaaaaams 'sour grapes'

OT: good stuff...and gonna be exciting to see what these games will end up being


Really? It was supposed to be sarcastic...Khan picked up on that...

At any rate, odds are good for these games to be on WiiU one way or another anyway, namely as its the first "next-gen' system.


let's be honest here...comments like these from EA are basically trolling wiiu by not even putting it in the 'next gen' category. They are specifically naming the next xbox/PS. I remember reading a very similar statement a few weeks back on gaf where another source alluded to the same thing. I would love to know what these 'signs' that make you have such 'odds' to be honest.

Yeah, it's clear EA (and a few other 3rd party devs) are ignoring the WiiU to an extent. Actually, more accurate would be not giving it a chance.

As to these signs? You only need to look at EA's games (though, mainly the Sports side) to see that they release games on every console going. Heck, the newest FIFA and Madden games launched on the PS2 as well. Battlefield? That's a different matter really. Less chance of that coming, but if games like COD and ZombiU sell well, and it's as easy to port over to WiiU as Nintendo suggest, then there's a good chance we'll see EA at least test the waters with a game. Same with Dead Space.


Sports titles are released on every console possible. That and this are very different tho. They are talking about new IPs based on Frostbyte engine. I'm sure at least 1-2 of them will be on a lot of platforms. But for yoru theory to become true, there are a LOT of Ifs involved. Since they specifically mention the next xbox/PS here...I don't see any reason to think otherwise.

But there's always a chance of ports later on I guess

Yeah I seem to have mis-read the article. And there are a lot of ifs involved, but if (there it is again) the WiiU is powered competitively and dev-friendly, I see no reason not to port the games over. Let's hope so anyway.



 

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Mr Khan on 30 August 2012
chocoloco said:
They did produce Dead Spce so I know they "can" be ballsy.

Next Gen should have some blockbusters by large corporations. Though on the plus side I see stores like arcade and the playstation store having possibly larger, cheaper, quality games to give room for smaller developers to make profit.

@ Mugen Of course, the Ninty fans hate EA and most third parties. HD fans have had tons of reason to be happy about third parties resulting in more positivity.

Nintendo fans don't take being mistreated well. The hate is entirely well-earned on the third-parties' part.



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M.U.G.E.N on 30 August 2012
Conegamer said:
M.U.G.E.N said:


Sports titles are released on every console possible. That and this are very different tho. They are talking about new IPs based on Frostbyte engine. I'm sure at least 1-2 of them will be on a lot of platforms. But for yoru theory to become true, there are a LOT of Ifs involved. Since they specifically mention the next xbox/PS here...I don't see any reason to think otherwise.

But there's always a chance of ports later on I guess

Yeah I seem to have mis-read the article. And there are a lot of ifs involved, but if (there it is again) the WiiU is powered competitively and dev-friendly, I see no reason not to port the games over. Let's hope so anyway.

I'm all for good competition (no seriously I am)..cuz I think that is the reason why I love the sony first party now...they had to step it up and they did and everyone benefited

but I honestly think Nintendo are to be blamed here as well to a certain degree. If (lol this is catching on to me as well hehe) Eurogamer is right about 1GB for gaming bit...ninty is setting themselves up for a similar situation as this gen 3rd party support wise. These are consoles that are meant to be in the market for a while and I honestly think 1GB is horrible. This gets worse with the CPU info/rumors. But we should wait until the console is out to actually judge. Imho if these info is on the money, then ninty needs two things

1. Insanely good and big marketing campaign

2. Some games like Wiisports to really suck the crowds in.



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green_sky on 30 August 2012
Slimebeast said:
happydolphin said:
Slimebeast said:
I wander what they mean by rocky start on X360 and PS3. Specifically, what games didn't meet the expectations commercially?

Off the top of my head I can only come up with one EA early generation game, MoH Airborne, that was a huge failure.

"It was a big jump last time,

1) we went from standard def to high def,

2) we went from very unconnected boxes to online service models

3) we saw a big jump in processing power

4) and frankly we made a couple of mistakes in how we built our technology that was going to build all these games out. [Engine]"

"Fortunately, we have a very different approach to technology now - we have an engine called Frostbite, that is a proven engine that we've shipped a lot of games on, that's tailor-made for next gen hardware. So we're in really good shape from a technology standpoint which is where we had our misstep last time, and we have a much richer and broader set of IPs than we did on last generation."

So yeah, what game was technologically not up to par from EA early in this gen?

It is just that they collectively lost market share to Activision at the start of the gen. Activision and EA being the two biggest publishers. Take Two would be third i'd assume. 



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AndrewWK on 30 August 2012
Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
Good for next-gen, WiiU won't be drowned by shovelware from EA, good.

EA will never figure out how to get their new Madden physics engine running on Wii U


Just to sell 200k copies, why would they? It is not worth the effort.



AndrewWK on 30 August 2012

I am so excited to see how EA games will look with frostbyte. I hope they keep making SSX games, and maybe Fifa will run on Frostbyte *dreaming*



Slimebeast on 30 August 2012
green_sky said:
Slimebeast said:
happydolphin said:
Slimebeast said:
I wander what they mean by rocky start on X360 and PS3. Specifically, what games didn't meet the expectations commercially?

Off the top of my head I can only come up with one EA early generation game, MoH Airborne, that was a huge failure.

"It was a big jump last time,

1) we went from standard def to high def,

2) we went from very unconnected boxes to online service models

3) we saw a big jump in processing power

4) and frankly we made a couple of mistakes in how we built our technology that was going to build all these games out. [Engine]"

"Fortunately, we have a very different approach to technology now - we have an engine called Frostbite, that is a proven engine that we've shipped a lot of games on, that's tailor-made for next gen hardware. So we're in really good shape from a technology standpoint which is where we had our misstep last time, and we have a much richer and broader set of IPs than we did on last generation."

So yeah, what game was technologically not up to par from EA early in this gen?

It is just that they collectively lost market share to Activision at the start of the gen. Activision and EA being the two biggest publishers. Take Two would be third i'd assume. 

Yes, but I still don't see what that has to do with EA having Frostbite in the coming console gen transition.



Mad55 on 30 August 2012
AndrewWK said:
Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
Good for next-gen, WiiU won't be drowned by shovelware from EA, good.

EA will never figure out how to get their new Madden physics engine running on Wii U


Just to sell 200k copies, why would they? It is not worth the effort.

They sell more than that 2010 and 2011 wii versions sold over 600k according to vgchartz.



Mr Khan on 30 August 2012
AndrewWK said:
Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
Good for next-gen, WiiU won't be drowned by shovelware from EA, good.

EA will never figure out how to get their new Madden physics engine running on Wii U


Just to sell 200k copies, why would they? It is not worth the effort.

Exactly. If they get mediocre sales from putting in no effort now, they get their excuse to neglect the console for the rest of the generation.

It makes perfect sense



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