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Nitrous_18 on 28 February 2009

what the hell EA where is all the games that i wanna c like SSX its been 4 fricking years



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N.Genckel on 28 February 2009

Yea, give us an SSX build for the balance board. I want to ride!



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richardhutnik on 28 February 2009
emilie autumn said:
party games on rails?

I notice this quote to:

EA also discusses the world of music games, which they believe is a genre that is here to stay. You can read more about that at the link below.

 

So, maybe we are looking at "Rails Band", the first musical instrument game, set on rails!

 



richardhutnik on 28 February 2009

Wait, I got it! EA is going to publish...

Skyscraper II: Need More Crotch Door!

And it will be on rails!



N.Genckel on 28 February 2009

lol

Give them hell !



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Kasz216 on 28 February 2009

Well that's not really that huge a number.

I mean... don't only 1 out of every 5 games worked on reach it's release date?



Ari_Gold on 28 February 2009
shams said:
stof said:
So in the last little while, EA has announced Boom Blox Party, DeadSpace Extraction and a Wii specific iteration of Need for Speed, confirmed that Tiger, DeadSpace and their new Wii centric tennis game will use MotionPlus and brought forward family fun potential titles like Nascar kart, Mysims racer and Mysims party, and this is the hatred they get for it?

It seems that unless a company decides to follow up successful PS3/360 entries in to their biggest and tech heavy franchises with Wii entries that probably won't sell as much, they're bad companies.

We should be happy EA has come around so much.

All the original, high-quality titles are not coming to the Wii - that is why I'm complaining. I want to see Wii titles that are *built* for the console - not part of some multi-skew development series.

The *only* originals I can see are:

 - BoomBlox (cute idea, but its really a 'simple' party game - nothing more - and it feels cheap)

 - EA Sports Active (i.e. WiiFit cash-in - and WiiFit will do me thanks).

...where is everything else?

GodFather II? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Saboteur? Fight Night 4 (still NOT a Wii title!) Brutal Legend? Dantes Inferno? C&C/Red Alert? (now *that would be an awesome Wii title - and where is it?)

I'll tell you what - its an absolute joke. Wii is the milking platform, and all the original, big budget titles (from big budget developers) arrive on every other console (PC, PS3, 360) - yet not the Wii.

...

I have 26 Wii titles sitting on my shelves (just counted), including a few from a friend. There are ZERO EA titles there. I have titles from just about every other publisher - but NONE from EA.

The only EA title I am looking forward to, is the new Harry Potter... and I can just see them doing a job and ruining it. Oh yeah - I had the last one - and its the only Wii title I sold :P

As far as I am concerned, EA can get f***ed. They couldn't give a rats about the Wii, other than seeing it as easy money - which it won't be, because they are not giving us what we really want. See EA - 26 purchases - and ZERO from you.

 

whats to your surprise? since the n64, nintendos third party support has sucked. This is the Wii's third year, and nothing will change. Your best off with a wii60 honestly.



mike_intellivision on 28 February 2009

Given the Gamasutra article makes the quote read slightly differently:

But the company isn't giving up. "We have this year 20 to 25 SKUs coming out on the Wii," said the COO. "They are not ports, they are all products that are developed directly for the Wii."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22492

So we've probably named them all.

And the cross-company collaboration is Nintendo and EA -- it does not take genius to figure that out reading the quotes (and especially since Gamasutra spells it out better).

These may not all be what everyone here likes. But if a a company decided to release two dozen titles for a single platform, you can't get too upset. After all, how many companies, outside of Nintendo and shovelware folks, have two dozen Wii games in their total catalogs.

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griffinA on 28 February 2009

1. Madden
2.Tiger Woods
3. Hockey
4. NBA
5.NCAA
6. Upcoming tennis game
7. Dead Space: Extraction
8. Mysims racer
9. Mysims party
10. Boom blox party
11. Trivial Pursuit
12. EA active
13. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
14. GI Joe - Rise of the Cobra
15. Need for Speed Nitro
16 Nascar Karts (may not be out in every nation yet)
17 The Beatles
18 Rockband 3
19 Mikami/Suda/EA game
20. Spore

So that's essentially the whole list give or take a few.

I'd say its about average support in terms of personal quality. Of course it's great support in quantity, I just wouldn't like many of the games.



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"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

shams on 28 February 2009
Ari_Gold said:
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whats to your surprise? since the n64, nintendos third party support has sucked. This is the Wii's third year, and nothing will change. Your best off with a wii60 honestly.

The surprise is EA coming out, with a "Wii is the best, Wii is our focus, we love the Wii, all other platforms are irrelevant" (etc).

Pack of complete lies.

Nothing else - I don't buy EA games anyway, and that isn't likely to change.

How about a Fight Night? Or even a Burnout? The PS2 had Burnout - is it that *insane* to bring it to the Wii as well? How about Wii version of "Black"?

...

IMO, they have just completely misunderstood the Wii's userbase - and continue to do so. Good luck to them.

 



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