Topic: EA doesn't count Nintendo as next gen

What we can expect to happen is this:

There will be a select few blockbuster titles. It will be fewer than the previous generation, but the games themselves will be bigger and cost more to make. There will be fewer development studios making these games.

Those will be supported by low-budget indie-to-small studio projects. These will be largely downloadable rather than retail, and there will be more of these on the next-gen download platforms than ever before.

The mid-tier developer and publisher - those 50-200 people organisations making and publishing games like what THQ did or Focus Home Entertainment does will all but disappear. These games will cost too much to make next-gen, and yet will not be impressive enough to "win" retail money from the blockbuster releases. There won't be enough of an audience (or enough visibility) for these games to survive as download-only titles, however.

We're already seeing all this happen, but next gen hardware is going to exasperate it.

"Unprecedented partnership"!!!!

Negative comments about EA aren't random, they're universal. EA didn't win the worst company of the year award for nothing.

In that case, EA's not going to like the PS4.

The Wii and Wii U are so much more innovative than the Xbox and PS3. I would call them generations ahead. A "generation leap" cannot only be defined by graphical powers (probably the biggest topic of the debate right now); it only defines a small part of what determines it, especially when we get into the future when graphics will get so powerful that consoles will only differ with things like CPU and such. Innovation (like motion controls and the Wii U gamepad) will also be a huge determining factor there, which the Wii and Wii U have sooooooo much more than the Xbox and PS3, in my opinion.

Anyway, the Wii U is factually "next-gen", as it is the "successor" to the previous system, which is what defines a "generation".
I was thinking about an entire rant, but I held my breath, calmed down and that is basically a summary of my thoughts!

No one's aware of the specs of Sony's PlayStation 4. Just rumors as of now.

lol ea

you do know sony plans on a screen for the ps4. so is it next gen then because sony does it?

The official company of dudebro jackwagons doesn't like WiiU? I'm heartbroken.

true, but look at the vita and the psp before it. powerful handhelds that didnt live the hype. i cant wait to see how much the ps4 is goin to cost if the supposed rumored specs are real. carlin said it best about religon that fits this topic with fanboys. not saying your one lol

That's innovative enough for me.

My thoughts on the article? Meh. /shrug

Nintendo is in a League of its Own...
No, its not a superpowered system like sony or microsoft will put out...
but sony is a tv company, and microsoft is a computer company.... neither are gaming companies...
Nintendo knows we want something new, something different...
They are the only company that innovates gaming, and creates new experiences...
Double analog controllers are perfect... but they are old, and kinda boring.
And I bet Nintendo will outsell them, again, and they will attempt to copy Nintendo...again.

Really, why more power anyways? graphics are as good as they need to be,,, unless they go 3d

I'm pretty sure we're NOT in gen 4... I don't see why EA thinks it has a say in what is considered next gen. They aren't Platinum Games or Naughty Dog, do they even have an example of a visually appealing game?

Uh... Yes

Da faq is wrong with you if you think a niche studios whose games have underperformed has more to say than a mega publisher.

Anyone who uses that stupid poll of worst companies to justify EA hate opinion is non void. Most of those company is also in that poll were way worst than EA.

Also from a tech perspective Wii U was never next gen and anyone who believed that it would be a big part of these companies roadmap were being naive.

The majority of the games being worked on are targeting the Durango/Orbis spec and the Wii U will either get down ports or left out all together.

I know some guys hear can't take the Nintendo googles off but if you really believed that there Wii U would become the lead console for the next gen you were kidding yourself.

How are people who use the poll's opinion void? Isn't saying that there were worse companies on the poll an opinion? If they were worse, why didn't they rank lower?

Also from a tech perspective Wii U was never next gen and anyone who believed that it would be a big part of these companies roadmap were being naive.

It's likely many third parties pass over Nintendo because they are afraid to compete against it's first parties. If you have an alternate theory, I wouldn't mind hearing it.

The majority of the games being worked on are targeting the Durango/Orbis spec and the Wii U will either get down ports or left out all together.

How do you know this? I also don't believe that either systems specs have been confirmed.

I know some guys hear can't take the Nintendo googles off but if you really believed that there Wii U would become the lead console for the next gen you were kidding yourself.

In my experience, taking jabs at people you're trying to talk with is not very effective. Also, nobody said that Wii U would lead the next generation. What has been said is that anybody who doesn't believe that Wii U is part of the next generation is kidding themselves.

1)There were far worst companies on the consumerist poll than are way more poo than EA making games Origin.

2)See I always here this theroy that third parties are afraid to put their games on nintendo console's since they can't compete with nintendos first party. Yet they aren't even attacking the same market with Nintendo focusing on more of a all ages game while third parties offering more mature offerings.

If anything third parties would be more relctant to support microsoft and sony since they're first party games overlap and sell more than most of the third parties games.

3) System specs don't have to be known for the common sense that most of the industry has moved onto development for Durango and Orbis. A few companies have been working on Early Devs kits since mid 2011. Not only thatbut developers usually announce games for the following year and we know nothing about what's coming out inthe Fall of this year. That heavily hints at major NDAs being involved.

4)Dude I'm being honest. This is a nintendo based website so I wouldn't be suprised that people here have a nintendo bias. I would call out Gaf for having a sony bias and teamxbox one for favoring the box from redmond.

Sizzle.

@Waveboy
I agree. I liked the good graphics from those games, too, but I would try and buy Wii games to see how they would use the controller. I prefer the motion control schemes over regular controllers anyday. The better thing about Wii too, was that that was the standard controller for that console, so every game HAD to use it. Even if they didn't map motion controls to the games, they could use the Wii remote as a regular controller, too, instead of forcing you to buy a motion controller besides your regular ones. I have to have at least 3 Wii remotes complete with a nunchuck on the ready for my bro, cousin, and I to be able to play Mario Kart, DKC Returns(2 player, but still), New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo Land, etc. My bro and cousin won't play PS3 or Xbox 360 with me, because the games don't suit how they want to play with motion control, even with Kinect or Move. I'd rather have 4 complete sets of Wii remotes, than 2 complete sets of 4 sets of Move controllers, plus PS Eye, and regular controllers, or Kinect that requires a 20x20 amount of space I don't have, and no games to play on either one of those consoles. Sony and Microsoft pretty much literally called Nintendo's control scheme a gimmick, then actually turned it into a gimmick from their standpoint themselves.

Very strangely, EA's sports titles on the Wii were actually some of the best examples of motion control NOT being a gimmick. The tiger woods games, grand slam tennis, they actually used motion controls to provide gameplay that is both deeper and more intutive than is possible with any other control scheme.

The possibility for a tiger woods game for the WiiU which lets you use a wiimote to swing a club and have the gamepad on the floor as a "view" of the ball is just too ridiculously cool. The gamepad already has a sensor bar on it which would perfectly synchronise the club and ball, the game basically makes itself!