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“Industry Has Woken Up To Wii,” Says EA
Electronic Arts senior producer Joe Booth has given some insight into the publisher’s Wii strategy.
“The vision for the Nintendo group at Electronic Arts is a long-term one. We always want to have a balanced portfolio but we also want to break some new games and take some risks,” Booth, who’s currently overlooking Wii and DS exclusive Need for Speed: Nitro, told Official Nintendo Magazine.
“I can’t speak for the rest of the industry or all of EA but I can speak for my group when I say I think we’ve turned a corner and the industry has woken up to Wii in the right way.
“We’re seeing a lot of new energy on the platform," he added. "One of the things I’ve found when I’ve been building the Nintendo group is that there’s a lot of very passionate people here. Our job is to find people that can be passionate about Wii and our mission.”
Among other titles, EA’s currently lining up EA Sports Active, Grand Slam Tennis, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Need for Speed: Nitro and the mature-themed Dead Space: Extraction for release on Wii this year.
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Oh one more thing the wii and dsi have a much bigger pircay rate than pc gaming
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36072/98/
this is very old news i am sure the pircay rates are much higher and growing. Then there is gamestop,rented games, the used game market.
Also, w.r.t. hunkydreamboats comments about them all being owned by mothers and little kids; Lots of these families will have teenage children too, or young adults. Y'know?
It's not like, if my brother has a 360 (he does), then it is totally inaccessible for me... I have bought games for it which I wanted to play (i.e. mass effect) and he didn't, and he has done vice-versa (i.e. Battalion Wars).
So if Wii is in millions of households intended for the mothers and kids, but people start releasing games aimed at teenagers, then those households may well still buy the games..
Also, I don't want a gaming PC!
I can believe that the wii has least play time per ownership, as the dreamy hunk chap suggests. However, it still has the biggest installed base of any console ('cept ps2, but let's assume most people who have a ps2 and are still playing games have a new console by now).
My Wii doesn't get a lot of play time at the moment compared to my PS3, but that isn't because I heart my PS3 more or anything, just that there haven't been any real AAA games in the last few months for it. I certainly expect to be playing a lot more Wii when (for example) the conduit is released, as the metroid prime control scheme is the best thing to happen to fps games in years.
So I agree with EA, millions of us own Wii's, and if they start making big games for it, I'll start buying them.
Current NPD stats don't agree with your decline theory. In Japan sales are slowing, but that probably has more to do with the market is already saturated there (most Japanese housholds own a Wii already). The Wii is the strongest system by units sold so if you are a game publisher you would be a fool not to develop software for the Wii.
sales for the wii have pretty much not moving. All consoles are on decline from here on in. after a 5 year ciycle consoles are now known to decline. Also take a good look amount of time pc play or use their wii not whole alot. real gamers dislike the wii.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/world-of-warcraft-playstati...
for the amount of people buying the wii the amount of times it being played is pretty low.
I checked out that link and I have to say that Starcraft being on the list after eleven years brings a smile to my face. I might have to play it right now.
they have not include game such as guild wars in this report. I wonder about other mmos too.
If they want to make money on the wii market target the older women or little kids. famiy or party games is the other opation.
"Woken up to the Wii". Why can't people just be honest.
- "I'm sorry, we'd love to make games for the Wii as much as any other system; but its design nearly guarrantees exclusivity. This severely increases our risk factor. To combat this, we have to make Wii games cheaper & faster to reduce potential losses. Nintendo doesn't have this problem. Their development houses are financed by system sales, & they have no other option than to produce for the Wii; so they lay it all on the line". -
That isn't so hard, is it?
Maybe because Nintendo hasn't released a (decent) first party game for a while they're hopeful they can sell a couple games?
wishful thinking, you know what's drving them wii's It's the women and their wii fit other than nintendo wii is good for anything else other parties. Oh little kids play it too other than that all consoles will be doing a snow dive soon. Lets just say they are on a decline now.