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torok on 04 March 2013
kitler53 said:
it's ballpark of 1M dollars according to Ubi but realistically 1 to 2M in general.   ...also 100k x $60 isn't the correct multiplier as the publisher only earns about half after retail and platform owner's cuts.  100k x $60 /2 = $3M.  50 to 100k is the break even point.  keep in mind, business is all about profits.  if a game is only expected to break even than there will be "no business drive" to work on the project.


Thanks for these numbers :)



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

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hunter_alien on 04 March 2013
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Nintendo refused Origin. That's my only guess.


Yes, that is all about it.


Or maybe big games like CoD/ME/AC all bombed on the WiiU and the preorders of NFS are non existent?

I mean we can blame the lack of Origin support as much as we want, but when will we start blaming the atrocious sales of 3rd party games?

While this might be true, the game was pretty much ready to launch, so it sounds to me that the losses have already been made and even if the WiiU version sold poorly they could've reduced the losses a tiny bit.


Maybe the cost of finishing the game and publishing it would have been to high to justify the release? I mean we are looking at sales that would have probabaly been under 100k LT, and the majority would have come from bargain bin sales.

Maybe EA much rather focused that money on advertising the PC/360/PS3, and by the looks of it, the game will do decent numbers.


 "But there was a lack of business support between Nintendo and EA on that"
This quote says otherwise.


That quote means nothing at all. We could speculate what exactly it means but we will probably never know for certain.

IMO what we can say for sure is that things like these never have just one side, and decisions are made by more factors: Nintendos deteriorating relationship with EA (Origin issues or not), bad financial performance of previosu WiiU titles, not enough dev/advertising muscle left for a 4th editiion etc.

People are jumping at EAs trotha for not supporting the WiiU, but it looks like Origin could have been a better idea for online integration. It is better to get ports, than no games at all.


I've used Origin and it sucks.  I'm glad that Nintendo didn't incorperate it into their online.  EA has become a "big bully" and nothing more.

Every company dreams to be the big bully. You cannot fault them for that.

Nintendo was a big bully during last gen when the Wii and DS where selling amazing numbers, Sony was before that, Activision and Microsoft are doing the same now.

Its called a business strategy, and lets be honest EA is doing some pretty good one for a couple of decades now



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oniyide on 04 March 2013
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Yes, sure, consumers are to blame not to buy subpar-games. How bad of Nintendo-fans. And Just Dance was really a first-party-title that Nintendo gave to Ubisoft to publish. No way that a third-party ever adapts to the needs of the customer-base of a console.


Either my sarcasm meter is broken or you dont know that Just Dance was a third party title...

LOL, your sarcasm-meter is broken.

I'm tired of people claiming the "Nintendo-dronez never buy teh third-partiez", while this claim is obviously untrue. The 3rd-parties only need to adapt to the audience.

funny thing is thats exactly what third parties did for the Wii but people complained that they were not get "any" third party support. ANd people did buy those 3rd party games it just wasnt the games some wanted.

Yes, agreed. My example of Just Dance is exactly that: a game that catered to the audience. But it is not common, as you look at the software-charts you see, that Nintendo far more often gets the audience on their platform than 3rd-parties. So many companies could have made much more money, as Ubisoft did.

Id argue that it was very common. Carnival games, game party, Zumba, Mel B fitness, biggest loser, there are more games on Wii than either PS3 or 360, no way Ninty made up the difference, problem is there some that would consider some of these games "shovelware"



GeneralTsao on 05 March 2013

Almost. But in the end they said NO.

The story of so many third party publishers this gen, so far.