Y'all give EA shit for the supposed 'unprecedented partnership' with the Wii U but I can't blame them for what happened - at all. This was totally on Nintendo and I can't imagine them trying to build a sports fanbase on the NX by doing all the things EA wants them to do/things that cost a lot of money.
Y'all give EA shit for the supposed 'unprecedented partnership' with the Wii U but I can't blame them for what happened - at all. This was totally on Nintendo and I can't imagine them trying to build a sports fanbase on the NX by doing all the things EA wants them to do/things that cost a lot of money.
I don't care about EA but them having dev kits since last year is another twig to throw on the 'NX home console releasing this year' fire. Of course having their full support would be good for NX sales.
How would this even work when MS has co-marketing for EA Sports games?
Electronic Arts is telling Nintendo that they need to do a better job at cultivating a sports audience on Nintendo platforms...
...they want Nintendo to do a better job marketing NX to fans of sports games during major televised sporting events...
Oh boy.
The demographics propagating such a mentality must be interesting. Do they suspect sports enthusiasts would purchase multiple systems in one generation? That bundling their yearly roster update with the new Nintendo console would convince consumers without a console to buy it over the other two consoles with the same game included? That Nintendo fans themselves would buy more systems if sports games were featured more prominently? Will Mario be dunking hoops with the Pistons while Waluigi shows off some sick Nike kicks?
I'll be glad to pick up plenty of sports games on my NX, as long as Nintendo publishes them
It's not worth it for Nintendo to bundle Fifa or Madden when they're just a roster update to the previous years game.
I'd be content with EA Access on NX, but a fella can dream.
Yikes
I think it's good that Nintendo & EA are talking, and EA's definitely within their rights to ask Nintendo "What are you going to do to grow the sports game audience on your platforms?.
Joke post?
What's this about?Could this explain why Nintendo went to Orlando?
Slightly related but ever since Nintendo announced their partnership with DeNA the idea of the unprecedented partnership being an Origin deal gone sour seems totally plausible. At the time it seemed silly that Nintendo would hand their online infastructure to a third party.
Sounds thoroughly implausible to me. There must only be a handful of people within EA who would know the specifics about any private negotiations with Nintendo, and for something as informal as this, there's probably even fewer in the loop.
This is what I was thinking. Unless they think MS won't care about whatever NX versions are coming for some reason
What would you want them to say tho?
This article is explicating say it's between Nintendo and EA Sports division. The execs being "quoted" have one agenda, get a sports audience on the platform so I can sell my games. It's less an overall EA portfolio discussion this reads like, more about "hey if you want my games, give me a plan that will enable me to sell them"
Negotiations are renewed every year. Part of what this reads like seems to me to be they are indicating to Nintendo that they can also pay to play, outbid MS or give us a dedicated promotional platform so we have bigger market share then our competitors and sure, we will sell with you.
Net net, nothing really groundbreaking here
Did you forget about the Gamecube version of NBA Street V3?Oh boy.
The demographics propagating such a mentality must be interesting. Do they suspect sports enthusiasts would purchase multiple systems in one generation? That bundling their yearly roster update with the new Nintendo console would convince consumers without a console to buy it over the other two consoles with the same game included? That Nintendo fans themselves would buy more systems if sports games were featured more prominently? Will Mario be dunking hoops with the Pistons while Waluigi shows off some sick Nike kicks?
I'll be glad to pick up plenty of sports games on my NX, as long as Nintendo publishes them
I'd just take SSX Tricky HD at this point.
I feel like I've been saying the same thing about Nintendo for years.
If you don't have Fifa or some other good football game, you don't have boys in Europe as a demographic anymore. You just don't. Not having football is proof that the fucking thing is ultra-uncool and doomed to failure, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even if you buy the thing to play Pokemon, you can justify it to your friends as 'Yeah, I like playing Fifa' and everyone will understand. If the console doesn't have that, you must be buying it for 'kiddie reasons'.
I saw Fifa 14 sell so many PS4s to my friends, and that was just for the resolution bump.
I also saw Champions League advertising sell about 100 PS2s to my friends and dorm-mates back in college. So many people watch those games, that if you have a good marketing campaign there it's hard to fail.
Nintendo has a ton of things they can do to attract sports fans, but content-light retreads of Mario Tennis etc at 60 euros will not get the job done.
What would you want them to say tho?
This article is explicating say it's between Nintendo and EA Sports division. The execs being "quoted" have one agenda, get a sports audience on the platform so I can sell my games. It's less an overall EA portfolio discussion this reads like, more about "hey if you want my games, give me a plan that will enable me to sell them"
Negotiations are renewed every year. Part of what this reads like seems to me to be they are indicating to Nintendo that they can also pay to play, outbid MS or give us a dedicated promotional platform so we have bigger market share then our competitors and sure, we will sell with you.
Net net, nothing really groundbreaking here
Personally I'm inclined to think it wasn't origin that caused the breakdown, I reckon it was because Nintendo were allowing used games, we know MS were going to block them before the 180 and rumours back then suggested Sony would too
Nope. The Fifa and Madden games on Wii U were based on the previous years games but with the rosters updated.
Because MS has spent years building an audience for those games. Nintendo hasn't so yeah, they're going to have to buy themselves out of their current situation in order to convince both consumers and publishers to buy in.MS would still be getting up-to-date versions of Fifa and Madden even without their exclusive marketing and EA Access.
Diehard Nintendo fans really are Nintendo's worst enemy. I mean the whole fuck EA we don't need them mentality is why Nintendo is in the position they are.
Nintendo needs to play nicer with the 3rd parties and the 3rd parties playing nice with them will happen . It is all about MONEY and Third Parties want to make more of it. If giving some EA titles a little extra attention means getting serious support its worth it even if the title isn't something you diehard gives a shit about.
I mean they could but it would require significant investment to win back that audience. It would only make sense if Nintendo was strategically trying to cater to that audience again.Seriously. Maybe during the N64 / early GameCube days. But sports fans on Nintendo systems are long gone, and it would be a waste for Nintendo to actively try and get them back.