EA Montreal shifting focus away from Wii games

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LordTheNightKnight on 25 November 2009

Miyamoto even said the next system would focus on easier development, hence less cost.

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NJ5 on 25 November 2009

A lot of industry people have confirmed that most of the development costs are on graphical assets so I don't think easier development will have much of an effect.

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bardicverse on 25 November 2009

So in other words, EA Montreal will be closing its doors by Q3 2010.

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Mr Khan on 25 November 2009

I guess it's time for them to swim in the big-boy pool

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averyblund on 25 November 2009

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Well then, what kind of games do you like? I had a lot of genres covered there, but I'm not much of a racing or RPG- so if you are so tell me what your poison is and I bet I could come up with a few.

Also want to mention that just because many casual games don't appeal to us doesn't make them all suck. Sure the one's with broken controls blow no matter what, but liking these games is a matter of taste and expectation. If you want a game where you can mess around with a virtual horse I'm sure My Horsiez or whatever might be a perfect fit. Not everybody wants to play Metroid, COD or Halo. With that said I avoid mini-games like the plague with only a few exceptions (Rabbids, Nintendo stuff mostly).

The games I most recently bought are the MP trilogy, Wii Sports resort, NSMB Wii, Rabbids go home (the one game on your list), enjoyed all of them, but I had no interest in the other games on your list

You know I specifically excluded 1st party games on that list since that was the whole point right? My whole point, which I restated was that there are good 3rd party games for Wii. Which has nothing to do with the many good games Nintendo releases. I was mistaken when I though I was confused. The games you mention are certainly some of the best this year. Rabbids is quite addicting, pulling me of L4D2 right now is pretty hard

See I don't think there are that many, I only own three third party games at the moment, of course those are opinions, which is why I use sales, since opinions differ from person to person, but sales are a hard objective figure

You continue to not answer my question about what kind of games you do like. What do you buy on other consoles? Or do you only like Nintendo games? Its pretty hard to see where you are coming from if you won't tell us anything about what you do like.

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