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EA refuses to develop for Wii U because Nintendo refuses to let them port Origin to it. It's pretty simple and it's old news.
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Yes, EA Sports Tiburon makes it. The other EA Sports studios make the other EA Sports games (EA Sports Montreal makes NHL, don't know about the rest).
Also Visceral, Bioware, Maxis, etc. are all just studio names that fall under the EA umbrella. They are no less "EA" than the various EA Sports studios. A number of them (the now-defunct Visceral Montreal, for example) are just renamed EA [City] studios.
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You already need an Origin account to play EA games on Wii U. Whether or not EA wanted more should be irrelevant as a sticking point for EA not publishing games on the Wii U, since every other console currently does the same thing. If EA decided to use "we don't want to become actual partners with you" that a sticking point for giving Nintendo nothing then that's a whole nother' problem, but that seems kind of a weird leap of logic to make.
The grapevine talk is that EA essentially wanted to force an install of an Origin app on the WiiU that the games couldn't run without (also they wanted to force always-online on their games according to some versions of the rumor), and which would host every single DLC for EA games; these DLCs would not appear on the Nintendo shop. This was the sticking point that caused them to pull out.
Whether Sony and Microsoft will allow them to do that, and how EA will react if they refuse, well, we'll see.
I mean maybe they'll turn it around, but this seems different to the Gamecube. The Gamecube made money. The Wii U sells at a slight loss, and stores are already selling off their stock at £100 less than the launch price, because no one was paying £250 for a Wii U when the 360 and PS3 are sitting next to it at £100-£150. At least it'll look better price-wise when the new systems launch I suppose.
Man they really have to fix this. I can't imagine a world without Nintendo releasing home consoles.
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really? because I imagine worlds where nintendo just makes games for other consoles all the time and there is nothing about it that isn't great
This would actually be the best case scenario, I think
As it is the only reason I would want to buy a Nintendo console is because it plays Mario games, and that's not a very good reason
I've heard this rumor before, but it currently just seems like well, a rumor. And EA just deciding to pull up game support for not agreeing to something that, let's face it, would be a huge risk on Nintendo's part?
It feels a little too "EA IS THE DEVIL YOU GUYS" for me to take at face value, and EA having serious business troubles feel a lot more likely to me, even if that's probably the more disheartening option in the long run.
They wouldn't do it though. They'd just go handheld only.
In my ideal world Nintendo still makes great handhelds
They just take what would be their big console games and put them on Sony and Microsoft's consoles
the perfect ending
( not really but
that ending was amazing)
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Though to be fair, I'm not really interested in either the PS4 or NextBox either, since my PC will probably still be better anyway.