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EA: Wii Want To Be Second To Nintendo News

By Jon Wilcox on 02/02/2007

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In an investor conference call, Electronic Arts confirms its intentions for Nintendo's next-gen system...

Electronic Arts' CEO Larry Probst has confirmed the publisher's ambition to support Wii, second only to Nintendo themselves. In the statement, which was issued in a webcast of EA's latest financial results, Probst said: "Clearly Nintendo will always be number one on the Wii and Nintendo DS, but we believe that we can be number two."

Through the course of the webcast, the publishing giant confirmed that fifteen titles for Wii and Nintendo DS would be released during the 2008 fiscal year (between April 2007 and March 2008), including a version of Will Wright's Spore for DS.

Probst also reiterated that support of Wii and DS wouldn't come at the expense of the other platforms: "The support for Wii and Nintendo DS is not at the expense of the other platforms that we deem strategic, so you'll continue to see us be very prolific [on the other systems]."

Explaining EA's strategy, Probst commented: "One of the things that we've done is acquire the Headgate Studio in Salt Lake City. Up to this point, they've been exclusively developing for the Wii platform, which will give us some additional capacity on the Wii. We're redirecting additional resources towards Wii and NDS [Nintendo DS]."

"By the end of this fiscal year, we'll have six titles in the market for the platform, which other that Ubisoft, will make us the most prolific on the Wii platform through to the end of March...We have very aggressive market share goals on both Nintendo platforms."

In addition to the Wii and DS titles set to make an appearance in the next fiscal year, EA will be releasing four titles on Wii and two on DS by the end of March 31st 2007.

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	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Tue 23rd Dec 2008 18:10, Post No: 325 lol how the hell did you come up with the idea that the wii and the ds arnt selling as well as the ps3 or the 360 fact is the will still out sells the 360,ps3 and ps2 every month by far the wii is the most popular console to date, it seams obvious that people dont care about hd graphics or tons of storage space (why are so many ps2's still being sold) the clear fact is that nintendo are the best at making a game console all ages can play and offering the best most used connection (so no need to go out and buy a new tv just to get the best out of it) further more you can get SD cards upto or above 8gb which is ample for game saves/downloaded games ect, also the only reasion why you only see bundles is that 1 it offers a money saving bonus where instead of buying it all seperatly would cost more in effect nintendo only loose a small amount of profit that they soon make up for with there games, 2 you the consumer get a better deal.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Tue 23rd Dec 2008 17:31, Post No: 324 It is weird that wiis are still pretty hard to find. And it sucks that they are only sold in bundles, i sure it is just a ploy to get money...but anyway Since they only come it bundles, it was hard for me to choos which one to get. Plus, i had no idea what exactly was in them, or where I could find them. However, shopwiibundles dot com has information on the different bundles, and has the ones that are being sold on ebay right now. I am not a big e-bay shopper, but they do always have wiis
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Mon 15th Dec 2008 15:45, Post No: 323 IMMERSION IS COOL
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Wed 10th Dec 2008 19:36, Post No: 322 Yea i have a Wii but look at the shelves of your local walmart man! If Nintendo doesn't do anything they are gonna sell Bundles and accesiries till they crumble completely, all they are now is accessories, every game has them, not to mention most games are the same in comparison, take care of you pets, baby ect. or Mini game things / carnival. a few exceptions, but those exception would have made it on the gamecube graphics and all, so the Wii is neat but choking nintendo, and if they don't invest in something like this soon, meaning either have lots of room for download content (because i'm already using an SD card for content that wont fir on my Wii, i have to move Virtual games to make room for new game save files! but like i was saying, if they don't get it, I'm sure Microsoft will, and [#@!?], if microsoft can fit more stuff than a PS3, that system will die, and nindo wouldn't even know what happened because theyed be too busy counting how many people they must let go in order to pay their lease
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Mon 17th Nov 2008 23:55, Post No: 321 to the haters! i love the wii, there is such a great range of games available, and more often than not at a nice price!! the educated wii owner will enjoy his wii for years (most of the best games are fairly unpopular and often not even advertised), kids won't because they're kids, and anyway nothing wrong with putting the controllers down for a while! and oh yes, f-zero and starfox has to happen !!!
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Thu 13th Nov 2008 07:40, Post No: 320 lol most of us are over the novelty value of the wii now all the games are so alike its getting boring besides people want hidef the wii cant do hidef so basicly that why you cant compare the wii to the 360 or the ps3. secondly from that there are games the mature audiance can play on the 360/ps3 like buzz/seen it among other kids games the only thing the wii has is wii fit but hasnt anyone heard of going out for a walk or even using a push bike or even jogging lol wii fit is for lazzy people who after buying wii fit will use it like there rusty exercise bike in there loft/garage with half a ton or dust and cob webs all over it
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Thu 13th Nov 2008 00:40, Post No: 319 ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
	By: h7pe Added:Thu 06th Nov 2008 12:26, Post No: 318 the Wii could never match the 360 or ps3.... come off it, the games for the wii are cr4p. mario this , mario that,.... bloody zelda and rabid rabbids. My kids have a Wii, and even they get bored playing it
	By: Dean Thorpe Added:Sat 20th Sep 2008 15:58, Post No: 317 Man I used to love the tvg forums... now i cant even follow it or work it :( Segaboy... is there an old style forum where we can chat about games anymore? or has everybody stopped? segaweb isnt about now either...erm..obviously lol
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sat 16th Aug 2008 23:19, Post No: 316 to 133.21, its simple how the wii can challenge other consoles games like the 360, they have games for the WHOLE family, like wii sports and wii play, i mean can u imagin ur grandmotrher on halo3? or metal gear solid?? no obvioulsy not, they'll probs have a heart attack tryin to figure out how to shoot and drive a vehicle( sorry if any old ppl read tht didnt meant it :P) soo mr xbox fanboy that is how the wii can match 360 games and ps3 games :)