Riccitiello expresses “frustration” at weak Wii

If Nintendo had more first-party stuff, wouldn’t third party software sell even worse, though?

You know, I want to say I called this, but I wish I had been wrong.

I remember when they were broadcasting Riccitiello’s town-hall Q&A to the EA office in Madrid a little more than half a year ago. He proclaimed we would make as many games for the Wii as for PS3 and 360. I just shook my head.

The only EA game (game! sports active doesn’t count) that truly captured what the Wii audience is all about was Boom Blox, and even that wasn’t a runaway success. That should’ve set off the alarms.

It did not. EA decided to push the Wii even more, developing games such as Dead Space Extraction that, again, no one bought. Why? Because it has nothing going for it. It’s an on-rails shooter with above average graphics, based on a franchise that didn’t do so well even on the HD brothers. I don’t know what the fuck they expected. I personally would’ve killed the project after my first glance at the design proposal.

This is why EA is bleeding money.

Also, it is the only company where you can get promoted for being a total moron. But that’s another story.

You can’t discount EA Sports Active, it’s one of their best successes on the platform to date. And is probably the best indication of exactly where they’re going wrong – they need to target their Wii stuff at the same audiences as their DS stuff, namely ‘the less hardcore’. It’s become kind of obvious that most ‘traditional gamers’ don’t much care for the platform, but that doesn’t mean there’s not money to be made.

I’d be interested to see how My Sims Agents performed, for instance. I bet it shifted significantly more units than Dead Space Extraction.

WTF is he on about.
“Please Nintendo, release a new Zelda, Super Mario and Wii Sportsesque game so that we can sell better”

Give Peter Moore free hands and you will earn a shitton of money Mr- Cunticello.

BTW, my VG247 persona is more in ur face than my EG persona. It’s all in the name of science.

Boom Blox is a great game that actually looked at the platform and was designed around it rather than shoe horned in to it – it deserved a lot more success than it got.

One of the biggest problems for third parties is that they need to create new IP like Boom Blox which uses the platform well – but they need to get people to try it too. Nintendo doesn’t supply any route to get demos out there and I think it really hurts third party devs.

i think there is method in his madness. If Nintendo had released more 1st party titles early on then I might have stuck with the wii, not sold it and maybe might have taken more notice of 3rd party games. Now i don’t buy any wii games, cos I haven’t got a wii and I buy lots of 3rd party games for PS3 and PSP Go…

also, most Wii games are PS2 downports.

I am only holding on to mine until NMH2 hits, then it’s sold.

DrDamn: imo the average wii customer doesnt bother much about demos..
its more of a word-of-mouth thing which games to buy and not.