The Force Is Strong In EA's New Star Wars Publishing Agreement

Such a bad news EA has the power to turn everything to garbage
The empire rules the galaxy now

I can't see how not getting games could ever be a blessing in disguise. You don't have to buy everything that gets released, so just ignore the ones you don't like. I don't think anyone has ever not bought a console because it has a load of bad games. The reason they don't buy it, is that it doesn't have any good games.

Putting the EA/Nintendo relationship to one side, this is great news. Lucas Arts were incapable of putting out good Star Wars games. Think of your favourite SW games. KOTOR? Rogue Leader? Battlefront? Jedi Knight? Lucas Arts didn't make any of them.

Instead you have 3 great developers ready to go to work, one of which made what is widely considered the best Star Wars game of all time. People need to get over the EA bias. There's far more chance of great Star Wars games now.

No idea but lets see what EA does, and I sure hope Star Wars 1313 remains in their eyes.

This leaves me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, EA has some great developers under its belt. Here's hoping for a Battlefront developed by DICE. On the other, EA keeps shafting Nintendo so the thought of these coming to Wii U is iffy.

Well there might be hope for a Battlefront 3 but since EA were the ones that closed Pandemic Studios I feel it would be a slap in the face if they did release one.

@SethNintendo Then I will call it
Star Wars: A New Hope

This pretty much means no Star Wars for Nintendo Consoles and always on Origin for PC.
After what happened to The Old Republic i would have thought Star Wars would never go near EA again in th enear future. And now they got everything. It is such a shame.

Not good if DICE isn't impressed with the Wii-U, which they're apparently not. I'd rather see LEGO in front of future Star Wars games, frankly.

Will they pick up "Battlefront III" I wonder... will we ever get an proper "Rogue Squadron" sequel? Ah, me and my silly dreams...

So this means no Star Wars games for Nintendo...'Awesome'

Well hopefully they realize that the name alone sells on any platform and will release on Nintendo in the future!

EA isn't going to publish a game on a Nintendo system for a long tome. So this isn't Nintendo news.

Wrong. The force is doomed if EA does a Star Wars game.

@Peach64
Two of the four games you listed were made by companies who went out business earlier this generation. Another is a subsidiary of Activision whose only recent credits are for Call of Duty DLC packs and the last one is BioWare, whose founders quit the company after the Mass Effect 3 debacle and whose latest Star Wars product was The Old Republic, which was a mediocre WoW clone whose exclusivity agreement put the only other Star MMO out of business.

Good Star Wars games are a thing of the past, and you're crazy if you think EA is going to turn that around, especially when they just got voted worst company in America, are in the midst of laying off a sizeable chunk of their workforce, and their last CEO resigned for failing to lead the company to profitability.

I will wait and see. Haven't been excited for a SW gamein ages.
And that was a long time ago in a galaxy far away

Star Wars pinball for Zen Pinball 2 will be the last good Star Wars game.

R.I.P. Star Wars video games we loved you but you have turned to the dark side of the force

In my opinion, bad news.

@BrainBoxLtd No-one was surprised that a Star Wars MMO would be aimed at the best audience for an MMO game - all the people who love WoW & other similar MMOs. Bioware have made some of the best RPGs in the last 10 years, and one miss (two if you include Dragon Age II) amongst all those hits is no real cause for concern.

We Nintendo gamers can whistle for any hopes of a Stars Wars game on Wii U.
I wish Ubisoft had the rights instead.

EA getting this is bad, EA buisiness model of Release half a game, fill in the rest with DLC and ensure there's plenty of Micro-Transaction opportunities is why.
From a WiiU owners perspective, while we will be saved from EA's poor, from a consumers point of view, buisness model it does also mean EA will use this Major Franchise as weapon to further drive home thier opinion that that you shouldn't buy a WiiU by simply making sure all except the WiiU get any Starwars games they publish.

@GiftedGimp: Aw, you semi-beat me to it with the micro-transactions.

I can see it now: "You must pay $0.99 to get a purple lightsaber."

@Peach64 I have to agree. There is way too much bias against EA lately and quite a few of their franchises are highly rated so their developers stand just as good of a chance at creating quality Star Wars titles as anyone else.

I can just imagine the possibilties of a new Star Wars RPG from Bioware. It would be hard for me to resist getting a PS4 if they officially announced that game. Also, DICE could possibly create another Star Wars Republic Commando or Battlefront 3. I wonder what will happen to Star Wars 1313 though.

EA getting this license is awful for Wii U owners. We will never see Star Wars games on Wii U because EA is led by a bunch of inch brained morons who hate Nintendo for no good reason.

@DarkCoolEdge Unless of course, the deal states that EA has to release versions on everything. I mean there are a lot of Disney ports on Nintendo consoles after all....

EA will not be publishing any games for the Wii U until it hits a particular market share. Can you guys cheer us up instead of posting this kind of stuff?

Sad to see Disney sell out to EA, the devil of the video game world. Be prepared for more day 1 DLC, on disk DLC, constant online only games.

@DarkKirby Has EA ever done on disc dlc? Not saying they haven't but I can't remember a game they did it with.

@SilentHunter382

I can say there were day one DLC files on the Mass Effect 3 disc. How sleazy that is, I don't know. Capcom has been accused of the same.

I hope EA is smart and will make a star wars battlefront lll. It would be even better if it was brought as a tps (third person shooter) to the 3ds

@gamr4life I hope they don't as much as I love BF2 EA were the ones who shut down Pandemic Studios, the creators of the series.

EA better not stuff this up ._.

After seeing what BioWare and EA did with Star Wars: The Old Republic, I really don't think it's a bad thing that Nintendo systems could be left out.

Okay, well not really. I love the first Knights of the Old Republic, and it would make complete sense for DICE to do a Battlefront game, both of which I'd want to see new games of on Nintendo's platforms. However, times have changed and so have these companies, so my hopes aren't exactly high about the future of Star Wars games. We'll see how things go.

Hmm, so here's a contridiction, So on one hand Frostbite3 wont work on WiiU (Total BS I know but bear with me), Yet EA say that Starwars games will be on All Major platforms, including console, Mobile and Pc.
Heres the Crux tho, Are Disney forcing EA not to exclude WiiU or Will EA's well known opinion of WiiU not being a Major Platform leave them scope to not release on WiiU.. of course the 3DS can not, not be considered a major platform the same as the Vita can't be considered a major platform, but then we're talking Nintendo and Sony, and EA and Nintendo are most definatly not drinking buddys yet its well known EA, MS and Sony enjoy their Weekly orgy, so what are the major platforms are likely not to be decided by sales figures, but who EA likes the most.
Personaly unless Disney forces EA, I can't see any Starwars Games coming to WiiU or 3DS.

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/05/07/eas-star-wars-games-unlikely-to-appear-on-wii-u/

Nope, EA and Nintendo don't have any relationship!!

Looks like the only Star Wars games we'll be playing on wiiU is when the SNES games come to the eShop

@Angelic_Lapras_King Even then they wouldn't have to release a good game. Just look at FIFA 12.5, I mean 13 for WiiU. Or 11, 12, 13 for Wii.
The only good games they released for Nintendo platforms lately have been both Boom Blox and Grand Slam Tennis. Almost forgot about the great Dead Space: Extraction. That's 4 games in, 6 years?

@GiftedGimp actually they will probably release them for Nintendo platforms because Star Wars games sold very well on Wii. The thing is, will they care to make them good?

Are we ever going to get a Force Unleashed 3? I'll be extremely disappointed if we're stuck with the lousy open ending to Force Unleashed 2.