EA: "We're currently not making any games for the WiiU"

[PeterMerkin69]

The people the Wii made its living on are the kinds of people who probably don't want to buy a new console when they still have a perfectly good one at home, and I suspect they prefer the Wiimote to the silly iPad wannabe thing. It's not like Joe Consumer's hep grandma is going to know whether or not there are other peripherals available. Or can pronounce peripheral.

I'm not sure the WiiU even has its core fans this time around. I don't want to buy one and I've had every Nintendo console since the original NES when I was three years old. The thing is, their major software releases are too few and far between, and my Wii literally sat for periods of over a year without even being switched on. I haven't turned it on again since the day I finished Skyward Sword. I just can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on something I'll use so infrequently when there's so many other good things competing for my time and money. It's not like I can't afford it, if I won the lottery tomorrow it's relative value would still be so low that buying it would give me pause. Having it cluttering up my entertainment center might not even be worth the two or three games I'd play over its life cycle. Resounding meh.

I wish Nintendo would get out of the home console business and just make software/handhelds. I want to play Mario and Zelda on my shiny new PS4 come autumn.

 

[Requia]

I'm quite sure Nintendo will manage to make more money than either Sony or Microsoft this go, even if they only manage to put out first party titles. Their business model is more sound, even if the customers aren't big fans.

Except they were taking losses on the 3DS before the price cut and they're taking a bath on the Wii U.

Their business model is "more sound" only in a folk wisdom sense.

Can;t speak to the 3DS, but the WiiU has been turning profit since Febuary.

 

[PeterMerkin69]

I hate exclusives as much as the next guy but Zelda and Mario will never be on a Sony or Microsoft console.

Not for as long as Nintendo peddles backwards hardware, anyway. If they fail enough and often enough that may change in time but it's certainly not in the company's immediate future.

 

[TheRookie8]

A successful-yet-hated video game publisher decides not to produce games for a very underwhelming video game system, evoking the ire of Nintendo and the gaming community in general?

Honestly, this should be this huge ethical problem, but I am somewhat indifferent to the whole situation. Nintendo has been slipping and EA's reputation has gone to the dogs regardless of this situation.

 

[Kmadden2004]

"We're not going to release games on this console because nobody's buying it"

"We're not buying this console because nobody's releasing any games on it"

"We're not going to release games on this console because nobody's buying it"

"We're not buying this console because nobody's releasing any games on it"

(repeat ad infinitum)

 

[rob_simple]

I hate exclusives as much as the next guy but Zelda and Mario will never be on a Sony or Microsoft console.

Not for as long as Nintendo peddles backwards hardware, anyway. If they fail enough and often enough that may change in time but it's certainly not in the company's immediate future.

I like Nintendo because they always put innovation and fun games over fancy tech and fancy graphics.Regardless if people hate it or not (people always hate new ideas when they are used to a particular thing)motion control is a great idea. I applaud Nintendo for atleast trying something new when other game developers/publishers keep putting out the same crap year after year.

The Wii U may have had a bad launch but I bet Microsoft and Sony will try to copy it just like they copied the Wii.

Motion controls are a great idea in the same sense that flapping your arms and trying to fly of a building is a great idea...if it works. Nintendo aren't going after the tech and graphic market, but they are still trying to sucker in the gimmick crowd, but they don't seem to appreciate that a trick like that only works the once, and all the people charmed by the novelty of the Wii's control system, (which, for the most part, didn't work worth shit,) won't be taken in a second time by the WiiU.

As for Sony and Microsoft copying the Wii, that was pure marketing: they saw how the Wii suckered in casual gamers and then tried the exact same thing, albeit I think it was too little, too late, but the smart thing is they did it after they had built up a healthy stable of games that people who actually play games would want. I very much doubt Sony and Microsoft will try and copy Nintendo this time around, but only because going by what we know about their current projects, they have more than enough bad ideas of their own.

OT: I'm curious to see how long people are going to keep saying Nintendo is headed in the right direction despite blow after blow like this.

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

Normally I get upset when some one says "we're not making any games for the WiiU for no good raisen" but if it's EA, maybe that's a good thing.

 

[rob_simple]

OT: I'm curious to see how long people are going to keep saying Nintendo is headed in the right direction despite blow after blow like this.

They've just announced that the next 3 Sonic games are going to be Nintendo exclusives, so they're obviously doing something right.

Given how good Colours, Generations and Allstars Racing were, that's something to be excited about.

You're not being serious. You're being serious? You think Sonic the freaking Hedgehog exclusives are a sign of good business strategy?

Sounds more like a suicide pact, to me.

 

[rob_simple]

What may seem like a gimmick to some is seen as progress to others,like it or not but in twenty years or so motion and touch controls will be the standard in not just gaming but in society in general.New ideas for technology are rejected all the time by the populace until they find out that the new tech is pretty good.

The reason motion controls are hated by gamers is because they are not used to playing games without a conventional controller.The Wii did something right when Sony's PS Move blatantly copied the design for the Wii-Mote but added a light ball on it.

As for Nintendo they have been around for fifty years and have such a large fanbase that unless they fuck up on EA levels then I just don't see them in trouble anytime soon.

Change for the sake of change is just a needless embuggerance.

Motion controls will most likely become a part of our day to day lives in the future, perhaps, but when it comes to gaming the reason I see them never working is the same reason they've never introduced a set of twenty push-ups between chapters of a book: I play video games by sitting on the couch and relaxing, when I want a vigorous workout I go to the gym.

Now, maybe there's a chance you're right and we will evolve in such a way that swinging our arms around and jumping to game will become acceptable, but it will never become the only thing in gaming because, primarily, gaming is a leisure activity that people do to unwind, not to work up a sweat and injure themselves. I can see myself using simple hand gestures while sitting on a couch to bring up menus, sure, but gaming without some form of handheld controller will never, ever happen and I can guarantee that. (And before anyone thinks to point out, this obviously excludes games like Just Dance.)

Just because it's different doesn't mean it's a good idea, there have been plenty of different control schemes introduced to gaming (most of them by Nintendo, funnily enough) that failed miserably, so I don't see why you are so absolutely certain that full motion/touch controls are the future of gaming.

 

[rob_simple]

You're not being serious. You're being serious? You think Sonic the freaking Hedgehog exclusives are a sign of good business strategy?

Sounds more like a suicide pact, to me.

2010 just called. The Sonic cycle got broken. Generations, Colors and All Star Racing got released. Sonic's waiting for you to get with the times, man.

OT: I'm curious to see how long people are going to keep saying Nintendo is headed in the right direction despite blow after blow like this.

They've just announced that the next 3 Sonic games are going to be Nintendo exclusives, so they're obviously doing something right.

Given how good Colours, Generations and Allstars Racing were, that's something to be excited about.

You're not being serious. You're being serious? You think Sonic the freaking Hedgehog exclusives are a sign of good business strategy?

Sounds more like a suicide pact, to me.

Why? Sonic games have sold well on Nintendo systems before so I don't see it as a suicide pact.

Sorry lads, but if either of you think three games --and I am not sold on Allstars Racing whatsoever, because putting Sonic in a car is the most retarded concept I've ever heard of-- is going to make me forget about the deluge of utter shit Sega have strapped my azure chum to, over the years, then you are sadly mistaken.

I seem to recall another Sonic exclusive deal that happened, for the Wii...what was it called? Oh yeah, Sonic and the Secret Rings, and it was a complete bag of cat's arseholes; so bad that I never even bothered to pick up the second one about the knight.

I'm not holding my breath.