EA: Wii Want To Be Second To Nintendo News
In an investor conference call, Electronic Arts confirms its intentions for Nintendo's next-gen system...
By Jon WilcoxPosted: 02/02/2007
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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Added:Wed 17th Jun 2009 21:03, Post No: 334
i hope wii HD dosent exist i mean seriously what good is a wii with the only new thing about it is High Def think about it...
Added:Wed 06th May 2009 13:02, Post No: 333
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Added:Fri 10th Apr 2009 19:44, Post No: 332
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Added:Thu 09th Apr 2009 22:28, Post No: 331
I HOPE this is the end of Wii ! Really ! I hope so
Added:Mon 06th Apr 2009 12:38, Post No: 330
That's very nice .I have a Wii but look at the shelves of your local walmart man!I’ve had my wii for about a year and have never had any problems with the remote flying out of my hands. I think the first buyers of the wii must have been some serious hard core gamers.
Added:Tue 31st Mar 2009 15:23, Post No: 329
*library >_>
Added:Tue 31st Mar 2009 15:23, Post No: 328
All this stuff about hardcore/casual is simply an excuse for gamers lacking confidence to elevate themselves above anybody they possible can, it's pure BS. >_>
As for the problems in this current generation? My current prediction is that microsoft can easily run away with it if sony and nintendo don't sort themselves out. Nintendo in particular are in the most trouble, but to blame the Wii's currenty librarie on just publishers or gamers is stupid - truth is, NEITHER take the wii seriously as a console, hence not many good games are around, and not many people will actually buy them when they DO arrive.
Much as it pains me to say this, nintendo needs to change the very image of the wii in order to save it, and themselves. They need to focus on style over substance for a little while, until they can secure some good releases to get back the long term gamers, and not just the people who wanna play wii sports for half an hour here and there. >_>
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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.