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Viper1 on 30 July 2008
Pristine20 said:
40 titles? Knowing EA, after seeing nintendo's Q1, I can envision the influx of their crapware. No way 40 titles would be anywhere close to quality...just a chance to milk the cow for what its worth.

It's 40 across both DS and Wii.

 

Let's assume 20 for Wii.  We already know well over half of them with the list provided by Erik Aston.

 



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Pristine20 on 30 July 2008
Viper1 said:
Pristine20 said:
40 titles? Knowing EA, after seeing nintendo's Q1, I can envision the influx of their crapware. No way 40 titles would be anywhere close to quality...just a chance to milk the cow for what its worth.

It's 40 across both DS and Wii.

 

Let's assume 20 for Wii.  We already know well over half of them with the list provided by Erik Aston.

 

 

 Still, 20 titles each is ridiculous and stinks of shovelware considering their Q1 results. Seems like a quick way to cover their losses i.e develop some crap in 3-6 months and sell, seLL, SELL!



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shio on 30 July 2008

Well they should support Wii and DS more. Since Wii and DS are 2 of the most profitable platforms, EA will have it's priorities in the order:

1- PC
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2- Wi
3- DS
4/5 - 360/PS3
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6- Mobile
7- PSP


I'm actually amazed (yet expected from a money-grubber) at the exclusive PC support EA is giving in the next 1.5 years:

- SPORE
- The Sims 3
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Battlefield 3 (rumored)

- Battlefield Heroes
- Battleforge

- Warhammer Online
- Kotor MMO

- New Digital Distribution Service, which will replace that crappy EA Store
- EA's PC Sports Games Returning Next Year, with 'Meaningful' Online Connectivity
- EA looking to market Crysis ready PCs

- No doubt dozens of Spore/Sims 2/Sims 3/Dragon Age expansions

 

EDIT: Just like the PC's, the Wii support doesn't come quickly as it takes time to understand the market behaviour... only after that a company can safely develop and support the Wii. It certainly took alot of research for EA to understand how the PC isn't dieing, but rather changing and growing exponentially into different schemes. Because of that, only now the PC support is coming... but also because of that, EA can give it's fullest to support the PC from now on while publishers like Ubisoft, Sega, Take Two and THQ are way behind time.

Wii support will come now after everyone knows that Wii is the prime console to develop for. The only negative is that it took too long for them to come.

 



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Resident_Hazard on 30 July 2008
Pristine20 said:
Viper1 said:
Pristine20 said:
40 titles? Knowing EA, after seeing nintendo's Q1, I can envision the influx of their crapware. No way 40 titles would be anywhere close to quality...just a chance to milk the cow for what its worth.

It's 40 across both DS and Wii.

 

Let's assume 20 for Wii.  We already know well over half of them with the list provided by Erik Aston.

 

 

 Still, 20 titles each is ridiculous and stinks of shovelware considering their Q1 results. Seems like a quick way to cover their losses i.e develop some crap in 3-6 months and sell, seLL, SELL!

 

Well, that approach hardly worked for UbiSoft.  Sure, according to the posted chart, they made profits, but they also had Assassin's Creed and two successful launch titles for the Wii.

Cheaply made shovelware doesn't always cover the massive costs of major current-gen releases.

EA needs to start making real video games and not this casual crap they think is what Wii owners want.

 



Viper1 on 30 July 2008
Pristine20 said:
Viper1 said:
Pristine20 said:
40 titles? Knowing EA, after seeing nintendo's Q1, I can envision the influx of their crapware. No way 40 titles would be anywhere close to quality...just a chance to milk the cow for what its worth.

's 40 across both DS and Wii.

 

Let's assume 20 for Wii.  We already know well over half of them with the list provided by Erik Aston.

 

 

 Still, 20 titles each is ridiculous and stinks of shovelware considering their Q1 results. Seems like a quick way to cover their losses i.e develop some crap in 3-6 months and sell, seLL, SELL!

What makes you think the remaining 4 titles will be shovelware shipped in 6 months?   You sound quite clueless and are just making a baseles assumption for the sake of negativity.

Considering they are reallocating a huge amount of resources towards Wii, it wouldn't make sense for them to be low budget shovelware.   An analogy would be you taking a huge amount of money out of your bank account to go shopping and only buying a single cheap item.



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