Wed, Dec 10, 2008 | 09:01 GMT
EA: We’ve still got work to do on the Wii
Speaking to investors in a call last night – following a Q4 sales warning – EA boss John Riccitiello admitted the company is struggling to find a foothold on Wii and that its natural home was the HD consoles and PC.
Riccitiello said that a handful of EA’s Wii releases, like Boom Blox and the My Sims series, are performing well, “but there’s no question that having the lead platform be a platform with two thirds of the unit sales occurring to the first-party owner is a really unusual thing. We haven’t seen that since prior to the [original] PlayStation.”
The exec added that EA’s “home territory” is still the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360, admitting “We’ve got work to do on the Wii.”
More on Kotaku.
3 comments
#1
Blerk
10/12/08, 8:54 am
Boom Blox is good fun.
#2
Tonka
10/12/08, 8:59 am
Still got its ass kicked all over town by Carnival Games. (Is that a pack-in btw?)
EA should be able to do better.
#3
Blerk
10/12/08, 9:02 am
Carnival Games isn’t a pack-in, no. Which makes its success ever-more baffling.