Nintendo needs EA if they want mass market success. Simple as that.

Give me EA please Nintendo i dont want to buy a new console in 2019 because i cant play third party games.

If the rumors are true, Nintendo's unwillingness to work with third-parties on content promotion was a big part of the reason Ubisoft walked away.  Considering how EA jumped ship on the Wii U even before it launched, I think it's safe to conclude that where there is smoke, there is fire.

It's Nintendo's console, they can do with it what they wish, but the same is true for third-party publishers.  If Sony and Microsoft are working with them to create a stronger sales environment then I can't blame them for trying to move their consumer base over to those platforms.

My guess is that Nintendo thinks of third-party publishers as competition for their own software (which is how they treated them in the NES/SNES era) and they're unwilling to short promotion of first-party content for games that are not thier own.  Sony and Microsoft, on the other hand, are willing to compromise for the betterment of both parties.  It's a very different philosophy.

Maybe the market would have been there if they supported Nintendo consoles more. I know I´m by no means an expert on this topic, but if a game sells let´s say, 250k copies at $50 that´s a lot of money, and I don´t know how much would it cost to port games to a Nintendo console, but if they port it with a small team and the result is of great quality, maybe they could start selling 250.000 copies and little by little, build a new market for those "hardcore" fans on Nintendo systems.

What I mean is that they are delusional if they expect to sell 4 million just like that, without making any effort. What I´ve seen from third parties are some good games, and plenty of trash. If they release shitty games that are bad games (I´m not talking about EA now, just in general) how can they complain? 

Maybe any of you can throw some light into this, and explain to me how much would it cost to port a game. 'Cause if they were really loosing money releasing those ports (EA has released only 3 wii u games if I´m not mistaken) then I can totally understand why they stopped supporting the system.

Nintendo needs the NX to be a success first, then companies like EA will be forced to return. Nintendo needs to sell the concept of the NX and it needs to be popular and something that people actually want. Until then, companies like EA will have a wish-list of things that Nintendo will need to do in order to gain their support which will be a nice way of saying "we're not supporting the NX."

That said, if the hype train starts moving for the NX after E3 and people are getting genuinely excited about the concept then it wouldn't surprise me if EA comes back later in the summer and suddenly gets a lot more "enthusiastic" about supporting the NX.

As much as I dislike EA, a lot of the things they complain about; lack of 3rd party bundles, lack of general Nintendo ads during sports games, lack of sports apps and overall lack of support from Nintendo are reasonable. People can say "well, EA should advertise their own stuff and succeed on their own" and that's fair enough but why the hell would they do that when they have two hardware manufacturers in Microsoft and Sony that are more than willing to help them out?

Hopefully EA will support NX, whether you like EA or not, their games are very popular. I know many people if a console doesn't have sports games they aren't going to buy it. EA also has other well known games such as mass effect that would be good (and I think needed) for the NX to sell well.

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I for one know that I am definitely basing my decision to buy an NX or not, on whether or not it has EA software.

They do, after all, represent the very bast in modern gaming.