EA regrets initially soft Wii support

These companies need to stop apologizing and start making quality Wii games.

Kyle: You don't make a profit in the video game industry by pleasing around 15 men and women who sit around a table once a week and do basically nothing, you make a profit by creating games that please the consumer. By creating/supporting/publishing the game that pleases the consumer, the consumer buys it, creating the profit that pleases the shareholders. If anything, pleasing the shareholders is the end result, not the initial reason.

tycoonmike, it's more about pleasing the shareholders considering they own a fraction of the company. they don't want to see their company's value decrease.

After reading your comments, I came to the conclusion that I couldn't care less, Tim.

I'm glad EA is supporting wii better now (bring on fight night wii!!) but I still hope nfl 2K10 or whatever will thouroughly trounce them.

Volcano: Do you honestly think that EA should care about pleasing the consumer? Any company, be they large or small, can only worry about one thing, making a profit. Like it or not, EA has been making a profit, therefore they have been making/publishing/supporting games that please the consumer. If EA wasn't doing so, they wouldn't be making profit. In making a profit, they have pleased the consumer. So all you people saying that EA is only making crap, the simple fact that they are making a profit proves otherwise.

Wii dont need crap thanks....

"MrSickVisionz : Most companies don't do things if they don't think it will be profitable. Thats a good rule for not going bankrupt." No kidding? That is news to me. It might be a "good rule" for not going backrupt but it is not a good rule for making innovative games. The fact is, when you are EA's size, all they see is green. When you are a small developer you take risks to get noticed and, yes, you risk going bankrupt. But it is not like EA can't stand to lose some money and compete with other products that will, in turn, drive their creative development. I cannot believe I just used "EA" and "creative" in the same sentence.

I think that Generic_Dude got it right! Oh and EA is an unorigional peice of poo.

just once when you wish a game was repetive thye give you def jam icon... FU EA yeah copy ubisoft and make great games like red steel and ps2ports...........

lol, soft wii.

Dont worry about it, bad company (EA) making games for bad systems (X360 & PS3). Wii dont need you EA. Nintendo FTW.

God EA omg

I'm starting to like EA again, actually, especially after playing NCAA 08. Madden 08 should return to championship form and a few EA games on the horizon look great. I like 'em.

Wow it took them this long to realize the PS3 and 360 aren't the best way to make money this gen..

Oh, and to boot...now that they realize their "mistake", what are they giving us on Wii? Boogie? A puzzle game by Steven Speilberg? And meanwhile, Nintendo is giving us Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl...and EA can't put one piece of their company into making something more than a fuzzy and friendly dancing game? BAH!

tycoonmike : Yes, you are accurate to correct those statements.

If you (EA) can't beat them, buy them......then beat them

wild_world_girl: To quote a few of the people below my post: "Truthfully, I don't recall EA's last great game... None that I can recall." Gamenux "From what I'm hearing from EA "We are horrible at making games, so we're going to stop working hard and let Nintendo make games for us". EA should just "get out of the kitchen"." Swyg "EA just regrets making crap" LouieV13 "All their games suck anyway." TheChronicle I will agree that they may be repetitive, but in no way should they be considered crap.

tell EA to shove it. Remember they neglected Dreamcast back in the day. They know exactly what they are doing.

tycoonmike : Granted, but also note that the very same list could be under the header "most milked IPs of all time"

"VolcanoMan001: Aww.. poor EA, they regret that they did not get in on the Wii early bird cash cow. Well, what new about that? EA never does anything unless they think they will make a load of cash off if it." Most companies don't do things if they don't think it will be profitable. Thats a good rule for not going bankrupt.

To all you saying EA doesn't make/publish/support great games, I can think of a few: The entire The Sims series The entire SimCity series The entire Need for Speed series 007: Everything or Nothing The majority of the Command & Conquer series Almost all of the games listed above received greater than 7.0 on this website.

This guy is serious about owning everything and destroying the competition. Hell they own their competition literally. Who else buys stock in their opponnents that they can't crush. These guys are a little scarry. Maybe oneday all games will be EA. (At this moment I am happy for 1st party development.)

Lie...cheat...steal... That's what it says on huge banners everywhere inside of EA's studios...because that's all they ever do: something that someone else has already done. The problem is...I like a lot of their games, and they have BF2 and Tiger Woods, which are pretty original given the lack of competition in those types of games (the massive online battles with BF2 and the fact that a golf game sells well...and please, don't use Joint Ops or Delta Force against BF2...show some respect!!!).

I wonder if people who hate being flooded by EA, will regret getting a Wii?

Interesting to see such straight talk from the company that uses the word "Spore" every time they are accused of boring, uncreative business practices.

'He responded first by saying that the company is aligned behind the goal of driving shareholder value' You have to realize that any publicly trade game developer has the creating value for shareholders as a higher priority than developing quality, innovative games. In an ideal situation, a game developer would implement a strategy that maximized shareholder value through developing better quality games. Unfortunately for us, EA has been successful in maximizing shareholder value and stock growth by re-hashing the same titles year after year, and shoving ads into games. This creates a more perpetual stream of cash inflow for the company, but really at the expense of the gamers who want better quality, innovative games.

The last EA game I found fun and entertaining was way back with SSX Tricky. Granted, I haven't played Blur or Madden on the Wii, but if EA can bring a quality game like that to the Wii (I'll believe it when I see it), then more power to 'em. Otherwise its more crap from them as usual. I hope better developers follow suit, though.

If EA starts backing wii, so will other bigger publishers and hopefully it's library will be 10xs more robust than gamecube's.

Casual trash hardware, Tim? Are you not confusing Nintendo with Microsoft here?

Aww.. poor EA, they regret that they did not get in on the Wii early bird cash cow. Well, what exactly is new about that? EA never does anything unless they think they will make a load of cash off if it. They spend the millions to get licenses to lock out competition but they won't spend a dime to actually take a risk. Heck, they hardly reinvest their money on existing game improvements. No sir, it is all about the advertisement and the exclusive deals.

EA: Kings of casual trash software, coupled with Nintendo: king of casual trash hardware... I shudder at the possibilities...

Regardless of quality, EA is a gold mine, and could easily secure a #1 position for Nintendo.

Yay, more Wii support from EA. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad. =) I guess the basic mistake they made was assuming that because men like to brag about watching the game on their big screen HDTVs meant they all own one.

At least EA put games on the Wii i (still) remember EA didn't want to support the Dreamcast unless it sold a million consoles which it did but they backed out and didn't support it

Truthfully, I don't recall EA's last great game... None that I can recall.

As Nelson would say HA HA

EA is ruining games. The latest victim is Rugby 08. Such a shame. Money, money, money.

EA are incapabale of making great games, at least nowadays. They made some fantastic games for the likes of the SNES and the Mega Drive/Genesis (the likes of FIFA and Road Rash in those days were actually quite good) but these days they just churn out games and know they're going to sell (they pretty much have most major sports licences, and games are going to sell on the back of that) so they don't make an effort to iron out all the wrinkles before the games go on sale. The only decent games (that I've played) that EA have made recently are racing games. Technically you can't count The Sims as an EA game as Will Wright was the founder of Maxis, and they had come up with the idea before EA did their usual ''oh, they look succesful, lets buy 'em out!" routine.

oh well, its EA folks their games arent original anyway and its the original games that do well on the wii, do you seriously want a crapped out version of CoD3 ... naw ill take original 3rd party support on a unique console and leave EAs samosamo for my ps3

EA is a joke.

I think EA were doing what EA do best: basing all developments on the previous console. Example: EA lost a lot on the Saturn, so they said not to the Dreamcast. GC and N64 weren't good for EA so.... my point is proven!

Why don't they just start making great games, instead of going multiplatform and buying everything on sight ? :|

This iteration of the consol wars is so different from the previous one that it's not surprising some of the game makers are kicking themselves for previous decisions. In the past, all the consoles were relatively the same except for differences in power. This time the PS3 and 360 are slugging it out on the power front as usual. But, Nintendo threw a real wrench into the system when they came up with the Wii. It's so completely different than the other two that you can't think the same way when developing games. This is also one of the reasons that it isn't as easy to cross all platforms with a game. I would have liked to see a little more graphical power in the Wii, but there is no denying that it has shaken up the industry. And that shaking was looooong overdue.

"There aren't companies that are really directly comparable in all areas. But if you're looking for companies that we admire and might well keep us up at night, I think about companies like Ubisoft, that made a quicker and more forceful move against the Wii and Nintendo DS, and that's showing in their results. [They're] insightful, and they create an awfully large number of great titles. No question, there's a lot to admire there." Dam straight

lamprey263 I don't think the Wii is a very port friendly system. If EA wants to create games for the Wii, they should at least make games meant to be played on the Wii. agreed i couldnt say it better myself they better make games and not ports cuz look at NFS carbon tht game was crap on the wii