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Mr Khan on 11 May 2013
kupomogli said:


EA is also not the only one pulling game support from the Wii U. NBA 2K was mentioned in this thread so I'll point out 2K Sports. MLB 2K13 was released in March of this year and didn't make an appearance on the Wii U. NBA 2K13 only sold 10,000 so that could very well be the reason. Tecmo Koei hasn't announced anything Wii U, but has been announcing and releasing PS360 and Vita titles. Square Enix has been announcing titles for everything but the Wii U, Namco Bandai is working on Super Smash Bros Universe but no games of their own.  4A's cancellation of Metro Last Light.  While retailers have posted it, Activision only mentioned the PS360 and PC when announcing Call of Duty Ghosts. 

http://www.callofduty.com/ghosts/wheretobuy

So yeah. Not just EA. Just about every publisher that has developed for the Wii U but has got poor sales has been avoiding the console. EA has supported the console more than any publisher and has continued to support it when the others have dropped out long ago. Now EA isn't supporting Wii U either until console sales pick up and people use it as another excuse to hate on EA. Atleast Nintendo has Ubisoft. They're still supporting the Wii U.

Activision said that they have not announced the next-gen versions yet, when asked about a Wii U version.



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amp316 on 12 May 2013

The real reason.

Two words:  Boom Blox!



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bananaking21 on 12 May 2013
Dr.JimmyRustles said:


hahahahaha. man that was amazing!!



pokoko on 12 May 2013

Something I've been trying to figure out is why Nintendo fans aren't mad at Nintendo. Seems to me that they were trying to convince people that the Wii U was going to get all the multi-player games when they didn't have many agreements in place. They mislead people by having guys like Ken Levine appear in a video (and WTF, people blame Levine for that?) which they showed on stage. They allowed EA to walk away after they seemingly had something worked out. They pissed off Ubisoft. They pissed off Amazon big-time.

And yet all I hear is that Nintendo is a victim. Seriously? I'm not saying they should get all the blame but clearly they deserve some of it. A lot of these things are directly related to choices Nintendo made. In business, it's YOUR responsibility to make sure other businesses want to partner with you, not the other way around.



Jumpin on 12 May 2013
Gnac said:
Jumpin said:
I think this argument is flawed in the premise. I am a Nintendo fan and I don't hate EA. In fact, I quite like their Maxis label games and am a very long time SimCity fan.

Are you still a SimCity fan, despite the last three games being rather shite? I know I'm not any more.

Again, a premise that is incorrect, I love the latest SimCity game. It's probably the most fun I have had on a PC game since Brood War.



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VGhippy on 12 May 2013
cyberninja45 said:

 It is Nintendo I believe were either too naive or too stupid to think that they could have gotten unprecedented support from a western developer. The west would first support a western base console and let the console from the east die for obvious economic reasons.

However Nintendo is not Sega, or Sony or MS where 3rd parties can make or break their consoles, that is not to say that Nintendo can support a console all on their own what they have to do is strengthen their relationship with Japanese developers because if they lose them well.


I disagree with this, western developers are the only ones giving the WiiU the time of day, Japanese developers have pretty much ignored it. It's getting pretty much no games in Japan outside of ports.

 

Edit: I mean late ports at that, like DQX. Nearly it's entire 3rd party release schedual is western.



Akvod on 12 May 2013

WiiU's target demographic doesn't fit with EA's portfolio of games.



Mr Khan on 12 May 2013
pokoko said:
Something I've been trying to figure out is why Nintendo fans aren't mad at Nintendo. Seems to me that they were trying to convince people that the Wii U was going to get all the multi-player games when they didn't have many agreements in place. They mislead people by having guys like Ken Levine appear in a video (and WTF, people blame Levine for that?) which they showed on stage. They allowed EA to walk away after they seemingly had something worked out. They pissed off Ubisoft. They pissed off Amazon big-time.

And yet all I hear is that Nintendo is a victim. Seriously? I'm not saying they should get all the blame but clearly they deserve some of it. A lot of these things are directly related to choices Nintendo made. In business, it's YOUR responsibility to make sure other businesses want to partner with you, not the other way around.

Edit: phooey, i let myself get sucked in again. I'll leave it that my opinion of Ken Levine is very low, and has been for some time.



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vaio on 12 May 2013
Mr Khan said:
pokoko said:
Something I've been trying to figure out is why Nintendo fans aren't mad at Nintendo. Seems to me that they were trying to convince people that the Wii U was going to get all the multi-player games when they didn't have many agreements in place. They mislead people by having guys like Ken Levine appear in a video (and WTF, people blame Levine for that?) which they showed on stage. They allowed EA to walk away after they seemingly had something worked out. They pissed off Ubisoft. They pissed off Amazon big-time.

And yet all I hear is that Nintendo is a victim. Seriously? I'm not saying they should get all the blame but clearly they deserve some of it. A lot of these things are directly related to choices Nintendo made. In business, it's YOUR responsibility to make sure other businesses want to partner with you, not the other way around.

Edit: phooey, i let myself get sucked in again. I'll leave it that my opinion of Ken Levine is very low, and has been for some time.

Stop responding to the ones you know will be Nintendo negative no mutter what. (you should have some idea atleast)

Dont give in to the dark side you are our (Nintendos) only hope Obi Wan Kenobi



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kupomogli on 12 May 2013
vaio said:
Mr Khan said:
pokoko said:
Something I've been trying to figure out is why Nintendo fans aren't mad at Nintendo. Seems to me that they were trying to convince people that the Wii U was going to get all the multi-player games when they didn't have many agreements in place. They mislead people by having guys like Ken Levine appear in a video (and WTF, people blame Levine for that?) which they showed on stage. They allowed EA to walk away after they seemingly had something worked out. They pissed off Ubisoft. They pissed off Amazon big-time.

And yet all I hear is that Nintendo is a victim. Seriously? I'm not saying they should get all the blame but clearly they deserve some of it. A lot of these things are directly related to choices Nintendo made. In business, it's YOUR responsibility to make sure other businesses want to partner with you, not the other way around.

Edit: phooey, i let myself get sucked in again. I'll leave it that my opinion of Ken Levine is very low, and has been for some time.

Stop responding to the ones you know will be Nintendo negative no mutter what. (you should have some idea atleast)

Dont give in to the dark side you are our (Nintendos) only hope Obi Wan Kenobi

@pokolo

I agree with this.  Nintendo has always done no wrong.  They don't make mistakes because fans can't think of them ever doing anything wrong.

@vaio

Wouldn't it be Obi Wan Khanobi?  Get it?