Please can we stop this shit. There's absolutely no evidence of this. It's just EA looking for a dirty launch day cash-in. If this 'EA are punishing Nintendo' theory had any truth to it, they wouldn't be releasing anything on it... ... ... would they!
Wait, what? I don't know what the Giant Bomb guys said. That being said, there's no evidence that this game is punishment. But EVERYONE has been saying something went down between EA and Nintendo, for which there is tremendous evidence.
The first E3 that Nintendo unveiled the Wii U, it was Nintendo and EA, on stage together, beaming like pride newborn parents, talking about their unprecedented partnership together. Here we are at launch, and all we have seen is... some messy rushed ports.
The rumor mill has been saying for months that EA wanted Nintendo to use Origin exclusively for their online, and Nintendo pulled out (the very late Miiverse stuff could be evidence of this, but correlation =/ causation and all that).
EA is a publicly traded company - they can't refuse to release games for a new system, or their shareholders would punish
them. But they can sure as heck only allocate enough resources to be able to say, whelp, look, we tried.
On the actual review, I don't get this:
but much of the subtlety of the game is lost due to the lack of support for Mass Effect 1 and 2 save files. The game kicks off with a 20-minute digital comic that allows you to make key choices to shape the plot, just like the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, but the most interesting moments in ME3 came as outcomes of smaller choices that aren't included in this prologue. So while you'll still shape the outcome of, say, Tali's major plot arc, you'll never know the pleasure of helping Conrad Verner find true happiness.
We get it - it's better to play through the whole trilogy. People who are playing on Wii U presumably didn't. They're playing this version. Is it fair to punish this version for not being like a seperate version? I haven't played any of the games - is helping Conrad Verner really a highlight of the game? My impression is that everyone has had different experiences playing through the trilogy because of the choices you can make (until the end, amiright?). This guy's complaint seems to be, why can't I relive the same experience I had before? Well, that was a known quantity before the game came out. It sucks, and there should be a trilogy release on Wii U, but there isn't, so let's review this game on its own merits.
