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Forums - Gaming - My Prediction; EA will drop support for the Xbox ONE and re-up support for the Wii U.

Nem on 14 March 2014

lol EA supporting Nintendo again? Not gonna happen.

I think even if they had a more powerful system they wouldnt.



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S.Peelman on 14 March 2014

I should start saving some gifs for further use... I could've used stuff like that popcorn-eating.gif right now.

OT: Hah, no.



Norris2k on 14 March 2014
retroking1981 said:
All these Wii U > XOne threads need to stop, its not gonna happen. XOne will pass Wii U this year.

Just look at the US sales.

This gen:
PS4>>>Xone>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Wii U

I strongly disagree on that.

If you look at 2014 worldwide sales, it's more like :
PS4>>>>>>>>>>3 times>>>>>>>>>>XOne>>50% more>>WII U

If you look at the time to pass competitor sales based on this week sales (strong xbox sales) :
PS4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Never>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>WII U>>>>>>>70 weeks>>>>>>>XBOne

If you look at sales this week:
PS4>>>>>>>>twice>>>>>>>>>>>>XOne>>>>>>>>twice>>>>>>>>>>>>WII U



S.T.A.G.E. on 14 March 2014
walsufnir said:
ToxicJosh said:
EA won't stop supporting Xbox, because Microsoft won't stop paying them to support it.


Yes, sure. MS is giving money to EA for every game they release on their platform, sure...


EA has pretty much made Microsofts launch. They  paid them  for timed exclusivity of games, exclusive dlc or excluisve games, .



badgenome on 14 March 2014

Yeah, that's a Kaizar thread all right.

EA would never drop Xbox if only because Microsoft is the only first party that can (unlike Sony) and will (unlike Nintendo) pay them for games.



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Rafux on 14 March 2014

Can someone get banned for posting terrible predictions? I think Kaizar time is up



Trunkin on 14 March 2014
fleischr said:
Trunkin said:
AndreRichards said:

The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

Right now, the gaming world is fractured into the hardcore crowd and the family/casual gaming crowd. Wii U has more or less cornered the family/casual gaming end of things and PS4 is trouncing XBox One with the hardcore gamers. If you were in charge of EA, would you support two platforms that catered to the same crowd? Doesn't make any sense. You'd reach the widest audience by supporting the PS4 and Wii U without the added expense of a third console.

I've heard this argument before, but really, how much can it possibly cost to port a game to XBOne? Its practically identical to the ps4, and we already heard ubi saying that Wii u ports cost around a mil, so I can't imagine it'd cost too much more than that for the One. There's basically a guarantee that most devs will make back the porting cost. Add to that all the marketing assistance and other "incentives" that M$ offers, and I don't see any chance of them losing third party support this gen, even if they sell under a forth of what Sony does.

Also, “Nintendo was dead to us very quickly. It became a kids IP platform and we don’t really make games for kids." 

Straight from the horse's mouth. -  - BS Anonymous Source ^

"Nintendo's a great partner. They never have been, and never will be 'dead' to EA"

-Peter Moore, EA COO, in rebutall to the made up quote you listed above.

O:)

Well, my first point stil stands, anyway.



Adameh on 14 March 2014

The problem is most Wii U owners don't buy third party games..



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chapset on 14 March 2014



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gergroy on 14 March 2014

Really? You made this thread again?