mii-gamer writes:
There has been a lot of conjecture surrounding the sour relationship between Nintendo and EA. Before the launch of the Wii U, a peculiar rumour emerged about a messy Origin deal gone wrong. Rumours are just rumours, and should never be considered true until officially confirmed. But the recent animosity of EA towards the Wii U, has me concerned that this rumour is in fact true. What happened to the unprecedented partnership that was announced at E3 2011? Dead Space 3, Crysis 3, and now Battlefield 4. It appears that most of EA’s big hitters will not be coming to the Wii U.
Insider Gaming - "Ubisoft has cancelled yet another game, this time ending development on the Animal Crossing-inspired title Alterra."
HALIFAX (April 14, 2026) – Laid-off Ubisoft workers in Halifax have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a settlement with the video-game giant. The terms of the settlement, including the compensation employees will receive, is confidential.
I can't sit here and act like I know these workers financial situations. And I'm sure nobody wakes up WANTING to go to court. But for the sake of the industry, I wish some of these types of cases made it to trial.
Settlements allow companies to continue to do whatever abusive practices they do. While the trials (should the company lose) would actually force real changes for the better.
But again, I'm not in these workers shoes and I can understand them not wanting to risk it.
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All the support they've been giving Nintendo lately, but to flat-out state that ''Nintendo doesn't need EA?'' I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for one second. Once the football exclusitivity is over with the NFL and EA, then it won't matter. Nintendo needs to establish a bond with 2K sports, Konami - basically developers with the right resources to make quality sport titles.
Uhhh, but Sony and MS have Ubisoft AND EA. It's not like Wii U gets Ubisofts games exclusively to cover the lack of EA games. Heck, ps3 and 360 straight up jacked Wii U for Rayman exclusivity.
Grasping for straws, are we not?
This article is right Nintendo don't need EA, their games are rubbish anyways. I don't want micro-transactions and day 1 DLC on my Wii U. No thanks.
Did anyone else hear the rumor as to why Nintendo and EA aren't playing nice?
Well what I heard was that Nintendo actually went to EA and asked them to design their online service and servers, and EA agreed, but the problem turned out to be that EA would have ran all of Nintendo Network, sort of like Origin, and Nintendo wouldn't have seen any money out of the deal, so Nintendo backed out and that ticked off EA.
That is sort of the same thing that happened between Sony and Nintendo when Sony was making the CD add on for the Super Nintendo, the way the contract was set up, Sony would have gotten 100% of the profits for any CD based game, and would have been privy to Nintendo's first party titles, sort of how the Phillips CDI got to put out terrible Zelda and Mario games.
I think Nintendo needs to get EA on board, at least with some of the sports titles.
Nintindo need every third party developer as mach sony or microsoft need it
I dont think nintindo in good position right now , hope the show me why i should by wii u , for other games that is not mario and zilda this E3 :D