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TheBardsSong on 26 September 2012

That Origin deal being blown off by Nintendo rumour seems even more likely now. Though if it's just as good on Wii U I'll probably buy that version anyway.



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chocoloco on 26 September 2012
JWeinCom said:

Oh my gosh people here are stupid. Do you think EA is really devoting time, money, and manpower to porting a game that they want to fail? Why in the world would they do that? They definitely don't like losing money.

The Mass Effect Trilogy that's coming out could very well be a decision that was made AFTER Mass Effect 3 Wii U began. We don't have a solid release date for the PS3 version of Mass Effect, so it's quite possible work on that port started recently, after licensing issues were resolved with Microsoft.

EA is porting Mass Effect to the Wii U, because they want to make it a juggernaut franchise, and they need it to be as visible as possible to as many audiences as possible. They're hoping that gamers who don't own a 360 or a PS3 have heard of the franchise and will buy it for the Wii U. It's as simple as that.

Is Mass Effect 3 for the Wii U a poor and misguided idea? Yes. Is this an intentional plan by EA to waste their time, money, and resources? No, that would be stupid. Is it an effort to not develop on the Wii U? No, EA isn't going to turn down a potential revenue source, and if they don't think the Wii U is viable, they could simply not develop for it. No zany scheme is required.

Sometimes a stupid move is just a stupid move with no wacky explanation behind it. Use your heads people.

Do not try to give reason to the many Nintendo conspiracy theorists on here, many have tried, all have failed, others lost limbs and many are now dead.



oniyide on 26 September 2012
chocoloco said:
JWeinCom said:

Oh my gosh people here are stupid. Do you think EA is really devoting time, money, and manpower to porting a game that they want to fail? Why in the world would they do that? They definitely don't like losing money.

The Mass Effect Trilogy that's coming out could very well be a decision that was made AFTER Mass Effect 3 Wii U began. We don't have a solid release date for the PS3 version of Mass Effect, so it's quite possible work on that port started recently, after licensing issues were resolved with Microsoft.

EA is porting Mass Effect to the Wii U, because they want to make it a juggernaut franchise, and they need it to be as visible as possible to as many audiences as possible. They're hoping that gamers who don't own a 360 or a PS3 have heard of the franchise and will buy it for the Wii U. It's as simple as that.

Is Mass Effect 3 for the Wii U a poor and misguided idea? Yes. Is this an intentional plan by EA to waste their time, money, and resources? No, that would be stupid. Is it an effort to not develop on the Wii U? No, EA isn't going to turn down a potential revenue source, and if they don't think the Wii U is viable, they could simply not develop for it. No zany scheme is required.

Sometimes a stupid move is just a stupid move with no wacky explanation behind it. Use your heads people.

Do not try to give reason to the many Nintendo conspiracy theorists on here, many have tried, all have failed, others lost limbs and many are now dead.

I LOL'ed at this.



flagstaad on 26 September 2012

The company in charge of the Wii U port of ME3 should fell betrayed or at least demotivated, they are making their best effort to produce an interesting title that it was already a hard sell at 60 dollars, and now EA decides to publish a collection of all 3 games for 60 dollars.
If only the collection would be more expensive, 100 dollars for all 3 games, or if the release date was next year...



the_dengle on 27 September 2012
JWeinCom said:

Oh my gosh people here are stupid. Do you think EA is really devoting time, money, and manpower to porting a game that they want to fail? Why in the world would they do that? They definitely don't like losing money.

The Mass Effect Trilogy that's coming out could very well be a decision that was made AFTER Mass Effect 3 Wii U began. We don't have a solid release date for the PS3 version of Mass Effect, so it's quite possible work on that port started recently, after licensing issues were resolved with Microsoft.

EA is porting Mass Effect to the Wii U, because they want to make it a juggernaut franchise, and they need it to be as visible as possible to as many audiences as possible. They're hoping that gamers who don't own a 360 or a PS3 have heard of the franchise and will buy it for the Wii U. It's as simple as that.

Is Mass Effect 3 for the Wii U a poor and misguided idea? Yes. Is this an intentional plan by EA to waste their time, money, and resources? No, that would be stupid. Is it an effort to not develop on the Wii U? No, EA isn't going to turn down a potential revenue source, and if they don't think the Wii U is viable, they could simply not develop for it. No zany scheme is required.

Sometimes a stupid move is just a stupid move with no wacky explanation behind it. Use your heads people.

The problem there is that if us regular folks here on this forum realize what a stupid move this is for EA, how is it possible that EA themselves don't realize what they're doing? Is it possible that a bunch of normal people can look at this situation and see that EA is clearly making a huge mistake, while the educated, professional producers and marketers at EA don't understand the consequences of their own strategy?

There are two possible answers to this question. The first is that the educated professionals at one of the biggest, most successful third-party developers in the business are secretly blithering idiots who are far less knowledgeable or aware of how their business works than every other person who knows anything about games.

The second possible answer is that EA knows exactly what they are doing. I remind you that they aren't one of the most successful third party developers for no reason, and encourage you to come to your own conclusion based on this logic.



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oniyide on 27 September 2012
flagstaad said:
The company in charge of the Wii U port of ME3 should fell betrayed or at least demotivated, they are making their best effort to produce an interesting title that it was already a hard sell at 60 dollars, and now EA decides to publish a collection of all 3 games for 60 dollars.
If only the collection would be more expensive, 100 dollars for all 3 games, or if the release date was next year...


so they should delay or charge more to appease some fans who feel a little butthurt?? Yeah that would be the best thing to do for the company and the fans of ME



the_dengle on 27 September 2012
oniyide said:
flagstaad said:
The company in charge of the Wii U port of ME3 should fell betrayed or at least demotivated, they are making their best effort to produce an interesting title that it was already a hard sell at 60 dollars, and now EA decides to publish a collection of all 3 games for 60 dollars.
If only the collection would be more expensive, 100 dollars for all 3 games, or if the release date was next year...


so they should delay or charge more to appease some fans who feel a little butthurt?? Yeah that would be the best thing to do for the company and the fans of ME

How about if they just released the trilogy on Wii U instead of only ME3? The hard part is pretty much already done.



oniyide on 27 September 2012
the_dengle said:
oniyide said:
flagstaad said:
The company in charge of the Wii U port of ME3 should fell betrayed or at least demotivated, they are making their best effort to produce an interesting title that it was already a hard sell at 60 dollars, and now EA decides to publish a collection of all 3 games for 60 dollars.
If only the collection would be more expensive, 100 dollars for all 3 games, or if the release date was next year...


so they should delay or charge more to appease some fans who feel a little butthurt?? Yeah that would be the best thing to do for the company and the fans of ME

How about if they just released the trilogy on Wii U instead of only ME3? The hard part is pretty much already done.


I never said they shouldnt, i think they should, but as of now they are not. People should just deal with it, why should PS360 owners suffer because some are tight that the trilogy might not get released on WII U??



the_dengle on 27 September 2012
oniyide said:
the_dengle said:

How about if they just released the trilogy on Wii U instead of only ME3? The hard part is pretty much already done.


I never said they shouldnt, i think they should, but as of now they are not. People should just deal with it, why should PS360 owners suffer because some are tight that the trilogy might not get released on WII U??

The 360 and PS3 versions should not be changed at all. It's the Wii U version that's the problem. It's messed up of EA to ask Wii U owners to pay $60 for one game while asking PS360 owners the same amount for at least three times the content -- especially if someone owns a PS3 and is interested in Wii U. It's not good for EA, for Nintendo, or for Wii U owners. It makes no sense for them to do that.

I had no intention of buying Mass Effect 3 for Wii U. A trilogy, though, is something I can possibly get behind. I don't understand why EA wants to offer me Mass Effect 3 for $60 two weeks after offering my 360-owning friends the whole series for the same price. That's not how you win over customers, EA. The least they could do is release ME3 as a budget title for Wii U. Make it $30 instead or something. Make it SEEM like an alright deal.



flagstaad on 27 September 2012
oniyide said:

so they should delay or charge more to appease some fans who feel a little butthurt?? Yeah that would be the best thing to do for the company and the fans of ME

They should charge more (more money for them? why not?), delay is another option, that way they don't sent a product to the market to fail. Is simple marketing, you don't sell 2 similar products at the same time one very inferior to the other one for the SAME price, you are killing one of the them without reason, you either delay the best one or charge more for it (less for the inferior one is another possibility but that would mean less money for EA).