EA stops making games for Nintendo Wii U

[SnAQ]

So, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Sims, FIFA.. What else is there?

I honestly doesn't care, I wasn't going to buy those games anyway...
But u know EA is a big company and all so I guess overall this is bad news

 

[ComeTurismO]

Old news, bro.

 

[weavile001]

So, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Sims, FIFA.. What else is there?

I honestly doesn't care, I wasn't going to buy those games anyway...
But u know EA is a big company and all so I guess overall this is bad news

Need for speed, I think.

 

[the_randomizer]

Need for speed, I think.

Thought that was Criterion games.

 

[weavile001]

Thought that was Criterion games.

You can clearly see Eletronic Arts at the developers and publishers section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed

 

[the_randomizer]

You can clearly see Eletronic Arts at the developers and publishers section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed

What did Criterion games do? If EA "hates" Nintendo so much, why did they bother porting it?

 

[Eerpow]

They never said, "we will stop making games for the Wii U and we will never develop games for the platform again".
What has been said is "we have nothing planned for the future" and "we have don't have any Wii U games in development".

Seriously as a company you're after money, they're not making a decision like this just to be assholes. They know they won't affect Wii U sales with their games only, and we all know that there currently isn't any profitable market for the system for ports. That comes much later, exclusives is what initially makes people purchase a brand new system.

Having no games planned is just what everyone should expect, it doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the "strained relationship" BS people are pulling. If the system picks up and they see a opportunity to maximize profits by porting their games to it then it will be the obvious thing to do.

 

[tronic307]

They don't hate Nintendo. If every game you publish on a platform sells no more than 20k you have to cut your losses. The SNES was different; Nintendo, Konami and Capcom gave the system momentum from beginning to end. These days it's just Nintendo. Madden 13 in particular was so watered down, it just wasn't worth it, but what about NFSMWU? Criterion put their hearts into that one and EA got a measly 20k for it.
To all third parties who haven't cracked the code to big sales on a Nintendo platform: It's got to be colorful, fun, and have a Japanese aesthetic, a golden age arcade game done with modern hardware. It can be a sci-fi FPS as long as it has arcadish visuals. Even Metroid Prime suffered in sales because Nintendo fans knew it was from a western developer.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Didn't expect much from EA but no Fifa is actually quite surprising. Dreamcast 2.0?

 

[chartube12]

nevermind

 

[Foxi4]

So, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Sims, FIFA.. What else is there?

I honestly doesn't care, I wasn't going to buy those games anyway...
But u know EA is a big company and all so I guess overall this is bad news

Dragon Age, NHL, EA Sports MMA, Command & Conquer, Tiger Woods PGA, Army of Two, Crisis, Dead Space, SimCity (and all Sim games, actually), Need for Speed, Madden, SSX, Transformers, Alice, Spore, Portal (boxed retail copies were distributed by them, Valve controlled Steam sales), Bejeweled, Shank, Skate, Rockband, Dante's Inferno, Mirror's Edge, Left 4 Dead (same deal as with Portal) and more, but that's no big deal I suppose.

Didn't expect much from EA but no Fifa is actually quite surprising. Dreamcast 2.0?

Dreamcast died because SEGA withdrew from the race on their own accord, not due to lack of third-party developer support.

At the time, management changed in the company and the newly-chosen CEO decided not to support the console post-release anymore - the console still got a good few AAA titles, for example Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena (actual Quake III Arena that was compatible with the PC version, not the spunk the PS2 got), Shenmue, Bust-a-Move, Capcom vs. SNK, DDR, Dead or Alive 2, Fighting Force, GTA 2, Guilty Gear and many, many more.

The system may have failed big time sales-wise, but not library-wise - there's a selection of games for it, especially considering its short lifespan.

 

[chartube12]

Unreal Tournament

Probably most played game that generation. The dreamcast version was fun as hell.

 

[Ryupower]

so this may be a good place for this

EA employee badmouthing Wii U on Twitter - System is crap, Nintendo should have 'pulled a SEGA'

 

[the_randomizer]

so this may be a good place for this

EA employee badmouthing Wii U on Twitter - System is crap, Nintendo should have 'pulled a SEGA'

He should be on Comedy Central

That's the most unintentionally hilarious, yet mature comment I've ever read from person who is a professional. He wasn't rude, he wasn't biased, hell, he wasn't even a dick about it. Voicing an opinion equates to the truth nowadays.

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh noz the wiiu is doomed now for sure. only mario and zelda can save it!

Spoiler: the truth

who gives a fuck about EA

 

[SnAQ]

Dragon Age, NHL, EA Sports MMA, Command & Conquer, Tiger Woods PGA, Army of Two, Crisis, Dead Space, SimCity (and all Sim games, actually), Need for Speed, Madden, SSX, Transformers, Alice, Spore, Portal (boxed retail copies were distributed by them, Valve controlled Steam sales), Bejeweled, Shank, Skate, Rockband, Dante's Inferno, Mirror's Edge, Left 4 Dead (same deal as with Portal) and more, but that's no big deal I suppose.


Dreamcast died because SEGA withdrew from the race on their own accord, not due to lack of third-party developer support.

At the time, management changed in the company and the newly-chosen CEO decided not to support the console post-release anymore - the console still got a good few AAA titles, for example Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena (actual Quake III Arena that was compatible with the PC version, not the spunk the PS2 got), Shenmue, Bust-a-Move, Capcom vs. SNK, DDR, Dead or Alive 2, Fighting Force, GTA 2, Guilty Gear and many, many more.

The system may have failed big time sales-wise, but not library-wise - there's a selection of games for it, especially considering its short lifespan.

And there's not a single game there I'd want to play

 

[Gahars]

And there's not a single game there I'd want to play

If you're looking at a lineup of games that includes the likes of Portal and Mass Effect and have nothing but contempt and indifference, well, I'm sorry. There's nothing any company could do to fix that.

 

[the_randomizer]

And there's not a single game there I'd want to play

Different games appeal to different demographics, plain and simple. I like Need for Speed, Portal and the Mass Effect series a lot and I played a bit of Crysis, but the rest of them don't appeal to me. Others will have a different opinion, and I can respect that I don't hate them, just not interested. Perhaps I can give them a try.

EA has made some games that I like, granted, but a majority of them aren't something I personally am interested in.

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

Soooo, porting old games over to the Wii U using a sub par method was upholding their partnership? I say good riddance, EA pumps out so much crap these days it isn't funny.

I also missed the part where EA had anything to do with Portal...

 

[the_randomizer]

Soooo, porting old games over to the Wii U using a sub par method was upholding their partnership? I say good riddance, EA pumps out so much crap these days it isn't funny.

Actually it is pretty funny. It's EA's fault for rushing the ports.