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steelmullet on 30 September 2012

Wii U will be awesome. When EA sees this via sales numbers, they will just port their current games to the Wii U when they are released. We have well over a year before PS4 and 720, so that's like Tiger Woods 2014, plus every other sports title and other EA franchises.

They're definitely testing the waters by releasing a low risk port like ME3. It might only make them just a little bit more money too, or at least break even. And then, if they are dicks like people are saying, then they'll quietly pull out with a great excuse. But as I've said, I think when the sales pick up on the Wii U, you'll see recent and current ports from EA on the Wii U until the other consoles hit that market.



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bmmb1 on 30 September 2012

Had ME3 remained launch day it might possibly have sold something (something) despite everything going against it. But, unless ME3 is no longer launch day because it is actually being substituted with the trilogy, ME3 not on launch day will sell even less than the famous 9000 copies of Dead Space Extraction's first NPD.

Anyway, the WiiU has more than enough games that I want to buy in its launch and launch window to easily last me a year. By then either the ME Trilogy will come for WiiU (I highly doubt this but if that happens I will buy it), and/or ME3 for WiiU will be in the bargain bins and cost $20 or less (in which case, if there is no trilogy I will buy it). Win win for me no matter what.



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oniyide on 30 September 2012
bmmb1 said:
Had ME3 remained launch day it might possibly have sold something (something) despite everything going against it. But, unless ME3 is no longer launch day because it is actually being substituted with the trilogy, ME3 not on launch day will sell even less than the famous 9000 copies of Dead Space Extraction's first NPD.

Anyway, the WiiU has more than enough games that I want to buy in its launch and launch window to easily last me a year. By then either the ME Trilogy will come for WiiU (I highly doubt this but if that happens I will buy it), and/or ME3 for WiiU will be in the bargain bins and cost $20 or less (in which case, if there is no trilogy I will buy it). Win win for me no matter what.


good to see some positivity. is there a link stating that the game is delayed?? because Amazon still has it coming out Nov 13



CCFanboy on 30 September 2012
bmmb1 said:
Had ME3 remained launch day it might possibly have sold something (something) despite everything going against it. But, unless ME3 is no longer launch day because it is actually being substituted with the trilogy, ME3 not on launch day will sell even less than the famous 9000 copies of Dead Space Extraction's first NPD.

Anyway, the WiiU has more than enough games that I want to buy in its launch and launch window to easily last me a year. By then either the ME Trilogy will come for WiiU (I highly doubt this but if that happens I will buy it), and/or ME3 for WiiU will be in the bargain bins and cost $20 or less (in which case, if there is no trilogy I will buy it). Win win for me no matter what.


I thought mass effect 3 was a launch title??????



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Darc Requiem on 30 September 2012
VicViper said:
If EA does not profit, how they can still be a top dog?

I really don't get that, honestly. It's like investors are sitting in a campfire trowing money on it.


EA doesn't profit. They continually post losses. It amazes me really. Given the amount of software they sell. They post high revenue numbers but not actual profits.



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Galaki on 30 September 2012
Darc Requiem said:
VicViper said:
If EA does not profit, how they can still be a top dog?

I really don't get that, honestly. It's like investors are sitting in a campfire trowing money on it.


EA doesn't profit. They continually post losses. It amazes me really. Given the amount of software they sell. They post high revenue numbers but not actual profits.

It's American business where you post loses yet still grow.

There's some magic accounting going on.



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Slimebeast on 30 September 2012

How can the original Mass Effect come out on PS3 when Microsoft published it? Anyway that is awesome news.



Khuutra on 30 September 2012
Slimebeast said:
How can the original Mass Effect come out on PS3 when Microsoft published it? Anyway that is awesome news.

The same way EA was able to publish it on PC.

They either boguht the rights, Microsoft's hold on the rights ran out, or EA used magic. One of those.



Birimbau on 30 September 2012
megaman79 said:
Its identical to what Konami did with the MGS Trilogy and and MGS33D.

It's also pretty similar to what EA did with NBA JAM on the Wii.


The difference is that MGS3 is a prequel to the whole Metal Gear saga, chronologically, MGS3 is the first of all, unlike ME3 that you need the 2 previous games to understand the history.



KungKras on 30 September 2012
dharh said:
Mr Khan said:
dharh said:
EA was probably already making the trilogy for PS360 before they got their hands on the Wii U dev kits. Either that or they figured it might be too much effort to port 3 games to Wii U without knowing how much success it might get, so they just decided to do ME3 first to feel it out.

EA should never have even tried to release ME on Wii U. Sequels of Games (real sequels, not like Final Fantasy) should finish on the brand(s) they started on.

Someone's mad about Bayonetta...


Sorry you are dead wrong. I never played the first Bayonetta, because I think its a dumb game to begin with, and I do not care that its now on the Wii U in so far as the game _itself_ is concerned.  I do however think that game series that jump from one console brand to another when they are not multiplat is a bad bussiness move. How many hardcore Bayonetta fans are gonna play the second one? Probably less than half. How many people who end up playing Bayonetta 2 are going to have played the first? Probably less than half. This is not a good way to create large fan base.

But in the end, in this instance, it may be an ok move, even if they end up with less potential buyers than they could of had if it were possible for them to publish it multi-plat or just on the PS3.

Your argument is invalid.

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