9th September 2009, 6:34 AM
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Okay, so since i'm the only one who actually understands or cares what's going on i'm going to be compiling information here.
This is from EA banter on the hopes of Dead Space: Extraction sales. For those of you out of the loop DS:E is a rail shooter with a lot of survival horror and adventure elements - based off the survival horror game of the same name for the other consoles.
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“One of the explanations we have is that there’s a lot of double ownership,” said Dr. Jens Uwe Intat, European VP at Electronic Arts. “So people having a Wii and a 360 and/or PS3. They’re really playing different types of games on those two machines, and historically up to now we assume those people will have played the more mature content on the more high-tech machine.Dead Space: Extraction is going to be a very nice test of that hypothesis, because we’re really building a game where the Wii version is very different to the Dead Space game on 360 and PS3, and we’ll actually see whether we can reach more people with a) a great game and b) interesting content.”
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More and more companies are throwing this at the consumer. Buy the game or we'll stop producing content. It's a warning that stems from the lackluster sales that everyone is receiving across the board on Wii unless you're pushing a fitness or partygame. EA will no doubt not reach the sales numbers they want on Wii with DS:E, so this will push EA to reconsider any 'mature' titles.
These third parties are plain tired of losing money and not only will they will tighten up their mature and core development on Wii, but ANY development on Wii. That means fewer fiscal releases (mostly holiday probably) and more dancing/rthym or mini game shit. I dunno how their sports are doing on Wii, but I hear good numbers, so more investment will be put there and Wii will miss out on any actual games from EA. Remember that interview where Criterion talked about how much fun it would be to use the Wiimote to steer? EA's also got some huge games coming all in the mature and core arena and its no skin off their nose to pass up Wii. My prediction is that Dead Space: Extraction will do some numbers, but nothing that will warrant EA from pulling their 'serious games' from Wii.
Okay, so since i'm the only one who actually understands or cares what's going on i'm going to be compiling information here.
This is from EA banter on the hopes of Dead Space: Extraction sales. For those of you out of the loop DS:E is a rail shooter with a lot of survival horror and adventure elements - based off the survival horror game of the same name for the other consoles.
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“One of the explanations we have is that there’s a lot of double ownership,” said Dr. Jens Uwe Intat, European VP at Electronic Arts. “So people having a Wii and a 360 and/or PS3. They’re really playing different types of games on those two machines, and historically up to now we assume those people will have played the more mature content on the more high-tech machine.Dead Space: Extraction is going to be a very nice test of that hypothesis, because we’re really building a game where the Wii version is very different to the Dead Space game on 360 and PS3, and we’ll actually see whether we can reach more people with a) a great game and b) interesting content.”
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More and more companies are throwing this at the consumer. Buy the game or we'll stop producing content. It's a warning that stems from the lackluster sales that everyone is receiving across the board on Wii unless you're pushing a fitness or partygame. EA will no doubt not reach the sales numbers they want on Wii with DS:E, so this will push EA to reconsider any 'mature' titles.
These third parties are plain tired of losing money and not only will they will tighten up their mature and core development on Wii, but ANY development on Wii. That means fewer fiscal releases (mostly holiday probably) and more dancing/rthym or mini game shit. I dunno how their sports are doing on Wii, but I hear good numbers, so more investment will be put there and Wii will miss out on any actual games from EA. Remember that interview where Criterion talked about how much fun it would be to use the Wiimote to steer? EA's also got some huge games coming all in the mature and core arena and its no skin off their nose to pass up Wii. My prediction is that Dead Space: Extraction will do some numbers, but nothing that will warrant EA from pulling their 'serious games' from Wii.