EA not interested on making sports games for Wii U

[QUOTE="locopatho"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Yet, are they enough to justify it as "doomed", especially when their damn system has been out for far less than a year? I admit their systems have flaws, but just because an accident happens, doesn't mean Nintendo is doomed. It's blowing things way out of purportion and doing that isn't fair at all.

nintendoboy16

And no one really gave a f*ck on that particular day.

[QUOTE="locopatho"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Yet, are they enough to justify it as "doomed", especially when their damn system has been out for far less than a year? I admit their systems have flaws, but just because an accident happens, doesn't mean Nintendo is doomed. It's blowing things way out of purportion and doing that isn't fair at all.LastRambo341

Bollocks! EA always put their FIFA games on every platform. Mobile - portable - console - PC. They have been putting it on PS2 still and Wii.

Sheep will continue to be in denile right up until the WiiU is dreamcasted. Blindest group of fans out of the bunch IMO.

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed. 

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead. 

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.   

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed. 

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead. 

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.   

Pray_to_me

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed.

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead.

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.

nintendoboy16

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed. 

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead. 

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.   

nintendoboy16

It's not just about the popularity of sports games on the console. It's the implication here that EA can't even be bothered to do a quick madden port. The Maddens (and FIFA's and all those sports games) come out every year and are designed to run on pretty much any console, heck there was a Wii U version last year.  It's gotta be one of the least expensive ports in the industry. If EA isn't even going to throw WiiU a madden bone you better believe WiiU won't be getting ports of other third party games that are more complex in nature (and we have seen this already with numerous titles not just from EA).

I'm willing to bet that coupled with it's abysmal sales, there's something else going on behind the scenes that's making porting titles to WiiU a very unatractive option. Could be that the weak CPU is forcing devs to rewrite their code to optimize, or it could be that being forced to utilize that tablet is more complicated of an endevor that we realize. Likely it's a combination of both coupled with Nintendos arrogance.

Hopefully WiiU dies sooner than later, and Nintendo goes third party, and the era of being forced to buy a Nintendo console just to play a handful of titles will finally die as it should have probably 10 years ago.  

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed.

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead.

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.

Advid-Gamer

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

Getting their HD consoles and online networks up to snuff cost Microsoft and Sony billions of dollers. Everyone thought Nintendo was smart sitting out the "HD" era. Perhaps it was smart at the time but Nintendo didn't plan ahead very well. They had years to prepare for the Wii's inevitable successor. All that money, all that time and they still failed. 

Those saying "meh sports" don't realize: The Wii U is dead. 

Even Gamecube got a Madden every year. Remember the last console that didn't? The Dreamcast.

The implication here is huge. If EA can't even be bothered to milk some easy port Madden money from the WiiU then that means its third party support is totally gone and ain't no Windwaker remake gonna save it.   

Pray_to_me

It's not just about the popularity of sports games on the console. It's the implication here that EA can't even be bothered to do a quick madden port. The Maddens (and FIFA's and all those sports games) come out every year and are designed to run on pretty much any console, heck there was a Wii U version last year.  It's gotta be one of the least expensive ports in the industry. If EA isn't even going to throw WiiU a madden bone you better believe WiiU won't be getting ports of other third party games that are more complex in nature (and we have seen this already with numerous titles not just from EA).

I'm willing to bet that coupled with it's abysmal sales, there's something else going on behind the scenes that's making porting titles to WiiU a very unatractive option. Could be that the weak CPU is forcing devs to rewrite their code to optimize, or it could be that being forced to utilize that tablet is more complicated of an endevor that we realize. Likely it's a combination of both coupled with Nintendos arrogance.

Hopefully WiiU dies sooner than later, and Nintendo goes third party, and the era of being forced to buy a Nintendo console just to play a handful of titles will finally die as it should have probably 10 years ago.  

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Yet, EA was never that popular with Nintendo fans unlike SEGA with the Genesis/Megadrive. There are different circumstances for every company when it comes to EA.

nintendoboy16

Sheep will continue to be in denile right up until the WiiU is dreamcasted. Blindest group of fans out of the bunch IMO.

Advid-Gamer

WiiU is getting Dreamcasted right now.

3rd Party can't give a crap about WiiU and the anticipation of the PS4 is drowning out the WiiU.

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Yet, EA was never that popular with Nintendo fans unlike SEGA with the Genesis/Megadrive. There are different circumstances for every company when it comes to EA.

nintendoboy16

It's not just about the popularity of sports games on the console. It's the implication here that EA can't even be bothered to do a quick madden port. The Maddens (and FIFA's and all those sports games) come out every year and are designed to run on pretty much any console, heck there was a Wii U version last year.  It's gotta be one of the least expensive ports in the industry. If EA isn't even going to throw WiiU a madden bone you better believe WiiU won't be getting ports of other third party games that are more complex in nature (and we have seen this already with numerous titles not just from EA).

I'm willing to bet that coupled with it's abysmal sales, there's something else going on behind the scenes that's making porting titles to WiiU a very unatractive option. Could be that the weak CPU is forcing devs to rewrite their code to optimize, or it could be that being forced to utilize that tablet is more complicated of an endevor that we realize. Likely it's a combination of both coupled with Nintendos arrogance.

Hopefully WiiU dies sooner than later, and Nintendo goes third party, and the era of being forced to buy a Nintendo console just to play a handful of titles will finally die as it should have probably 10 years ago.  

who's to say if they did go 3rd party they would end up like Sega..sega was making terrible choices even before they went 3rd party man.

Sheep will continue to be in denile right up until the WiiU is dreamcasted. Blindest group of fans out of the bunch IMO.

Advid-Gamer

I will laugh when that doesn't happen.:lol:

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Yet, EA was never that popular with Nintendo fans unlike SEGA with the Genesis/Megadrive. There are different circumstances for every company when it comes to EA.

nintendoboy16

It's not just about the popularity of sports games on the console. It's the implication here that EA can't even be bothered to do a quick madden port. The Maddens (and FIFA's and all those sports games) come out every year and are designed to run on pretty much any console, heck there was a Wii U version last year.  It's gotta be one of the least expensive ports in the industry. If EA isn't even going to throw WiiU a madden bone you better believe WiiU won't be getting ports of other third party games that are more complex in nature (and we have seen this already with numerous titles not just from EA).

I'm willing to bet that coupled with it's abysmal sales, there's something else going on behind the scenes that's making porting titles to WiiU a very unatractive option. Could be that the weak CPU is forcing devs to rewrite their code to optimize, or it could be that being forced to utilize that tablet is more complicated of an endevor that we realize. Likely it's a combination of both coupled with Nintendos arrogance.

Hopefully WiiU dies sooner than later, and Nintendo goes third party, and the era of being forced to buy a Nintendo console just to play a handful of titles will finally die as it should have probably 10 years ago.  

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

Sheep will continue to be in denile right up until the WiiU is dreamcasted. Blindest group of fans out of the bunch IMO.

super600

I will laugh when that doesn't happen.:lol:

[QUOTE="super600"]

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

Sheep will continue to be in denile right up until the WiiU is dreamcasted. Blindest group of fans out of the bunch IMO.

locopatho

I will laugh when that doesn't happen.:lol:

I think the third party support may be better then the Wii, but the console won't get every third party game.

[QUOTE="locopatho"][QUOTE="super600"]

I will laugh when that doesn't happen.:lol:

super600

I think the third party support may be better then the Wii, but the console won't get every third party game.

[QUOTE="super600"]

[QUOTE="locopatho"] Even if it doesn't get Dreamcasted, best case scenario is another Wii... tho even Wii got some FIFA :?locopatho

I think the third party support may be better then the Wii, but the console won't get every third party game.

It was 4-6 when the console was being developed, but I pretty much lowered it like crazy when I started reading more about the technical capabilities of the WiiU.:P

[QUOTE="super600"]

[QUOTE="locopatho"] Even if it doesn't get Dreamcasted, best case scenario is another Wii... tho even Wii got some FIFA :?locopatho

I think the third party support may be better then the Wii, but the console won't get every third party game.

This is what happened:

[QUOTE="TheWalkingGhost"]Who cares? Madden sucks now anyway. Not having EA isn't system killer. Hopefully EA goes bankrupt soon.fernandmondego_

[QUOTE="fernandmondego_"][QUOTE="TheWalkingGhost"]Who cares? Madden sucks now anyway. Not having EA isn't system killer. Hopefully EA goes bankrupt soon.TheWalkingGhost

[QUOTE="fernandmondego_"][QUOTE="TheWalkingGhost"]Who cares? Madden sucks now anyway. Not having EA isn't system killer. Hopefully EA goes bankrupt soon.TheWalkingGhost

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

[QUOTE="Pray_to_me"]

It's not just about the popularity of sports games on the console. It's the implication here that EA can't even be bothered to do a quick madden port. The Maddens (and FIFA's and all those sports games) come out every year and are designed to run on pretty much any console, heck there was a Wii U version last year.  It's gotta be one of the least expensive ports in the industry. If EA isn't even going to throw WiiU a madden bone you better believe WiiU won't be getting ports of other third party games that are more complex in nature (and we have seen this already with numerous titles not just from EA).

I'm willing to bet that coupled with it's abysmal sales, there's something else going on behind the scenes that's making porting titles to WiiU a very unatractive option. Could be that the weak CPU is forcing devs to rewrite their code to optimize, or it could be that being forced to utilize that tablet is more complicated of an endevor that we realize. Likely it's a combination of both coupled with Nintendos arrogance.

Hopefully WiiU dies sooner than later, and Nintendo goes third party, and the era of being forced to buy a Nintendo console just to play a handful of titles will finally die as it should have probably 10 years ago.  

razgriz_101

who's to say if they did go 3rd party they would end up like Sega..sega was making terrible choices even before they went 3rd party man.

WiiU not interested in EA making sports games for its platform

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Actually the Dreamcast had better 3rd party support than the Wii U could ever dream of. Sega got a big boost from Capcom, Midway, and the success of Soul Calibur. Not to mention Sega was at it's very best with the Dreamcast and had the best 3 or 4 years in its history. Everything it did was gold.
With the Wii U Nintendo has not proved anything yet. Pikmin 3? Not exactly a system seller. 2D Mario that was gonna have ts ass handed to it by Rayman Legends? Obviously that wasn't a big game changer either.

If the Wii U is ever s popular and gets the great releases frequently like the Dreamcast did I will be amazed.

[QUOTE="super600"]

[QUOTE="locopatho"] Even if it doesn't get Dreamcasted, best case scenario is another Wii... tho even Wii got some FIFA :?locopatho

I think the third party support may be better then the Wii, but the console won't get every third party game.

WiiU not interested in EA making sports games for its platform

News at 11

smashed_pinata

They are probably just waiting on a good install base.caseypayne69

Keep telling yourself that. Advid-Gamer

[QUOTE="smashed_pinata"]

WiiU not interested in EA making sports games for its platform

News at 11

Advid-Gamer

i think ea is waiting on more user base,   

also gc hardly saw ea support except nfs  madden and moh , it missed nascar quite often ,  as well as fifa    ,

    nfs most wanted is coming and thats all i care for from ea and that will always come multiplat cause even the wii had nfs hot pursuit the only title wii missed was shift and shift two  

perfectly normal for nintendo platforms to not see some games , but ya i dont care for madden 25 after the disaster of 2013 ,  even the wiiu couldn't fix my issues with the 360 version 

Actually the Dreamcast had better 3rd party support than the Wii U could ever dream of. Sega got a big boost from Capcom, Midway, and the success of Soul Calibur. Not to mention Sega was at it's very best with the Dreamcast and had the best 3 or 4 years in its history. Everything it did was gold.
With the Wii U Nintendo has not proved anything yet. Pikmin 3? Not exactly a system seller. 2D Mario that was gonna have ts ass handed to it by Rayman Legends? Obviously that wasn't a big game changer either.

If the Wii U is ever s popular and gets the great releases frequently like the Dreamcast did I will be amazed.

timbers_WSU

i think ea is waiting on more user base,   

 

also gc hardly saw ea support except nfs  madden and moh , it missed nascar quite often ,  as well as fifa    ,

    nfs most wanted is coming and thats all i care for from ea and that will always come multiplat cause even the wii had nfs hot pursuit the only title wii missed was shift and shift two  

perfectly normal for nintendo platforms to not see some games , but ya i dont care for madden 25 after the disaster of 2013 ,  even the wiiu couldn't fix my issues with the 360 version 

mariokart64fan

[QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

i think ea is waiting on more user base,   

 

also gc hardly saw ea support except nfs  madden and moh , it missed nascar quite often ,  as well as fifa    ,

    nfs most wanted is coming and thats all i care for from ea and that will always come multiplat cause even the wii had nfs hot pursuit the only title wii missed was shift and shift two  

perfectly normal for nintendo platforms to not see some games , but ya i dont care for madden 25 after the disaster of 2013 ,  even the wiiu couldn't fix my issues with the 360 version 

Advid-Gamer

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]Keep telling yourself that. TheWalkingGhost

You think EA is mostly irrelevant and when you add T2...? Based on 1 game? Xcom, Agent, GTA, BioShock and MLB2K13 are the games that they have scheduled for 360/PS3 and would take just a cheap port to put on the WiiU. How many are getting ported? 0.fernandmondego_

[QUOTE="fernandmondego_"]You think EA is mostly irrelevant and when you add T2...? Based on 1 game? Xcom, Agent, GTA, BioShock and MLB2K13 are the games that they have scheduled for 360/PS3 and would take just a cheap port to put on the WiiU. How many are getting ported? 0.TheWalkingGhost

"In a Monday interview with Gamasutra, Take-Two president Strauss Zelnick said that his company isnt ready to throw its development weight behind Wii U. We havent announced anything yet, said Zelnick, Im skeptical.  That was before the WiiU even launched and before we found out how bad it's sales are.  From what the company has been saying T2 games are not very likely (inperticular when the other 2 launch) .

You said that Madden sucks and that no EA is not a system killer.  "That's when EA mattered", what other way is there to read that? Now, if that's the case than they are mostly irrelevant, are they not?  Than again, I can't read.  

Edit, yes they would be ports even if they are released the same day.

[QUOTE="HalcyonScarlet"]

[QUOTE="locopatho"] Both PS3 and 360 support non proprietary storage. And as I said, USB 2.0 is too slow to be effective for streaming data. A built in harddrive is much better for streaming games. (saves would be fine)locopatho

USB 2.0 is too slow to transfer huge data loads. When I have to move 100GB it can take around 1hr. But when USB 2.0 switches from bulk transfer mode to streaming mode (isochronous mode), it's actually really capable. Especially when the host controller doesn't have to share with many other devices.

I'm streaming Crysis on the 360 over USB 2.0 Patriot XT USB stick. Also the Wii U is designed to play games off the disc, you don't install them as far as I know. And the disc drive streams no where near as well as USB 2.0 in streaming mode.

USB 2.0 is fine for the Wii U, apart from the times when you'll be moving bulk data such as a big game bought from the e shop or whatever it's called, from the system storage to USB storage. But that might not be a problem if it downloads directly to the USB storage.

The only reason i'd like USB 3.0 is to save me time when i'm moving massive files over USB, otherwise i'm happy with USB 2.0.

Technically, Firewire 400 would be suitable for the Wii U, as it would stay at it's higher speed consistently of nearly 50MB/sec. It's good for streaming and decent at transfer. It's just not supported well.