No FIFA For Nintendo Fans This Year, States EA

No surprise on either. It wouldn't sell on Wii U and western publishers stopped pretending to care about handhelds years ago.

Fifa 12 (Wii) + HD Upscaling + Roster Changes X By EA's Arrogance = Commercial Flop?

Proof the EA's been teaching us maths for years folks.

Good - a game made by the worst company in America for the most corrupt organisation in the world not coming to Nintendo platforms is great news.

What's an EA?

They didn't start off brightly with FIFA13 on WiiU being just like FIFA12 from other systems

Well I do want the new game for the chance to play the women's teams (I'm a big soccer fan) but I am thoroughly annoyed with EA. NHL 15 was a bust and I am not a fan of EAware. Also Sims 4 felt like a step back to me. On the fence for this one.

Biggest shock of the year

I'm actually gonna but Fifa 13 soon because I really want a football game. It's really cheap now.

@jonnyN Yeh i picked it up for £3.50 from Argos last week here in the UK just to build on the Wii U collection.

You can forget about pro evolution also

@CTs_Lieutenant I don't like EA or FIFA very much, but considering their popularity it probably actually is bad news for Nintendo to miss out on this. Although then again, the Wii U version would have been the laziest version missing roughly half the features, and then EA just would have gone on to complain about how their games don't sell on Nintendo platforms. Oh gee I wonder why.

Let's not forget EA's unprecedented software support Madden 13, Fifa 13, Mass Effect 3 and Need For Speed Most Wanted U. Oh yeah 4 games in 3 years, I've never felt so happy in my entire life for Nintendo to have that much support on one of their platforms from one company.

With the recent FIFA leader arrests, it's not like I WANT to support the brand.

Where's Konami when you need them?

I don't remember the last time I play a FIFA game, maybe on the N64 and PlayStation perhaps and those were by mere accidents. So this news means jack nothing to me.

@KevTastic84 Wow even cheaper then I thought

I stopped buying ea games after NFSMWU. Not supporting any of the bull crap from them anymore.

I bet EA made those Fifa games using Unity stock assets. Quick somebody get Jim Sterling and imfrom him of this quick. JK

Anyone else think it's incredibly stupid that Quatar is hosting a World Cup? They have to move it to the Winter!

Well I've never bought a Fifa game, bar possibly Fifa 95, but I have a ten year old nephew and I feel really sorry for him stuck With Fifa 13. This game WOULD turn a profit for them, just not a big enough one I guess. Lousy EA :-/

Ya know, if someone made a good football game for the wii u then it would have almost no competition and everyone who wants a football game would have to settle for theirs or nothing at all.....

I have a feeling there is a football game on wii u and I'm just forgetting it...

@Sparx
You mean Fifa 13? Or the upcoming Mario & Sonic At The Rio Olympic Games?

It's because EA is still a bunch of babies for not getting their way with Origin. EA is stupid for at least not making it on 3DS. It would sell tons.

Rather play Mario & Sonic anyways

I don't like sports games or EA in general anyway so good!

I don't know know if EA's statement that FIFA doesn't sell on Wii U is true cuz most of the times I see FIFA 13 on Wii U's top 10 selling games and that is three years after the game's release. So there definately has to be some politics going on. And I was hoping FIFA made a return this year. It's time PES steppped up to the plate and released PES 16 on Wii U cuz I think it would sell well. PES can build their own fan base on the Wii U if their smart enough and those fans would definately be carried forward to NX or whatever the next system.

Whatever. Mario and Sonic at Rio already has soccer covered.

Just bought Fifa 13 (used) a few weeks ago. Suits me fine thanks!

@Kuhang It's a risk, but one Konami should look at as it's one of the few franchises of theirs that still does ok. Plus it could do with a boost. The glory days of the PES series on PS2 when it ruled the football game world are long gong.

get one of the PES version for 3DS. very good football sim for a handheld game!

Not loosing sleep over this one. Haven't bought a Fifa game in years.

FIFA 13 is great on Wii U - it's my most played game (about 145hrs). But because I have it, I'd need convincing to get a newer version anyway. The match gameplay in FIFA 13 is the best I can remember playing and I have a lot of fun with it.

Good, im glad

To keep this in perspective, they say it will be skipping Vita too.

How about Nintendo makes another Super Mario Strikers game, that would satisfy my soccer need

And in other news the sky is blue, the grass is green and splatoon is amazing shocker!!!!

Konami should go for it. (The last 3DS version is great).

The last main version on PC is quite good fun as well. (I really don't like playing Fifa).

@CreativeWelshman Yeah but same as Ubisoft (And Square Enix) they did one game of the type of quality that should be standard.

@Kuhang you do realise that FIFA 13 being at the top of the charts shows that other games are not selling right.

There isn't any politics going on. Third parties want to make money and if they felt they could on Wii U they would release games.

Look at konami and PES. They would have no competition on Wii U and they still don't bother releasing it.

Now what you should be saying is why don't Nintendo hire a studio to develop a serious or arcade soccer game.

Nintendo should release there own sports titles like Sega did with the Dreamcast.

I don't care honestly. I haven't bought a FIFA game since FIFA 2004 on GameCube. Was really fun though.

There went my traces of hope that Madden would ever come to the Wii U again. I was naively hoping the larger install base could mean a shot this year, but this makes it pretty clear that won't happen. Oh well. This will make it much easier to never buy another EA game again, as has been the operating norm for quite some time.

Splatoooon!

I'm an American so I have no idea what any of these words mean.

What a shock!

@garthvader You REALLY think FIFA on 3DS would sale "tons" ? 0.o

"[...]because FIFA 16 is shaping up to be one of the most dramatic editions of the game yet thanks to the welcome inclusion of female teams."

You're joking, right? Aside of the new female teams, which you can't play against male teams (I really would love to see that), this game is just a copy of Fifa 15. In fact, each Fifa is just the same just like CoD or BF. Why are people supporting this is beyond me, but whatever.

@sinalefa considering the 3DS and Vita versions are just updated squads over previous versions it is good that EA are not releasing a new game.

@CTs_Lieutenant

Hyperbole, much?

Blatter resigned today when he found out about this

It's beginning to please me to see so many Nintendo fans happy to see yet another 3rd party game skipping the systems. Keep at it guys! The more 3rd party support lost, the sooner Nintendo will have to go 3rd party! No console maker in history has ever survived without 3rd party support!

Why buy a corrupted game?

Good it wouldn't probably be like the last games (no offense to fans of the sport)

nintendo world cup for the original gameboy and NES were the best soccer games anyway so I don't really care

@Project_Dolphin

Uh, no, I read comments. Plenty of people actually "happy" that Fifa and EA aren't putting another game on the system.

That's okay, as long as Nintendo fans keep up the adversarial relationship with 3rd parties, then the company will have to go third party themselves sooner rather than later. Then everyone will be able to play Nintendo's games far easier, because they can then be on other platforms.

Konami makes a better soccer game for 3ds and Wii-U but it seems that PES has been discontinued or something. Android gets a game called PES Football Manager. What happened to Konami? Their game is better than EA's anyway.

@Project_Dolphin

Because I am among the ever-growing number of people tired of Nintendo's awful hardware gimmicks, and as a Nintendo fan, I would prefer their games reach more people--and that's clearly not going to happen as long as they keep trying to make dedicated hardware. How long are they going to try to find lightning in a bottle again? The Wii showed that if Nintendo's games are on hardware that sells, the games perform well. But consumers clearly don't care for Nintendo's hardware.

The mobile plan will either support of usurp this concept later this year and early next year. We'll see how well Nintendo's software sells in a 3rd party status on other hardware, and I suspect it will sell very well. I suspect it will sell well enough that Nintendo puts more effort into mobile.

But those sales will not translate into sales of the NX. They now have 4 generations of releasing hardware that is outside industry norms, struggles for a variety of reasons (despite the sales of the Wii, it's library is 1000 games smaller than the X360 or the PS3, and made up overwhelmingly of crap), and is generally disliked or ignored by consumers. Essentially, Nintendo has spent twice as much time being largely irrelevant as they ever did being industry leaders with the NES and SNES.

I'm hardly alone in this. Lots of people want to play Nintendo games--they just no longer want to waste the money on hardware that will almost never be used or justified. Hardware that will offer next to nothing but the occasional interesting Nintendo game every 6 months or so. Hardware that does not have other uses beyond gaming.

Back when I worked at Best Buy and then GameStop, I was surprised how many people lost interest in the Wii because it couldn't play DVDs or Blu-Ray movies, and for streaming, all it had was standard-def Netflix. These extras matter to consumers.

Your childish attempt at an attack of "whut, cantcha afford a Wii U?" completely misses the point (besides which, I've had one since launch). It's about justifying the expensive hardware purchase. If a consumer doesn't feel like the price of the Nintendo hardware is justified for what little is offered, then they won't buy it. And Nintendo has been seen as less and less justifiable every generation, barring the Wii and DS flukes. Outside of those two, they continue to sell worse every generation.

Sounds like another type of corporate president needs to step down

@Quorthon

This isn't an "adversarial relationship." Based on the last 4 years of FIFA releases on the 3DS, if FIFA 16 was to be released on a Nintendo platform, it would almost certainly be FIFA 16 Legacy Edition, which means it would be a roster/kit update of FIFA 15 Legacy Edition, which itself is a roster/kit update of FIFA 14 Legacy Edition,which itself is a roster/kit update of FIFA 13 Legacy Edition, which itself is a roster/kit update of FIFA 12. FIFA 12 is a 2011 release that is the only original FIFA game EA has made for the 3DS. None of the other entries introduced anything new, other than roster/kit updates.

I am a believer that 3rd party support is a necessity for the success of Nintendo platforms. However, when a 3rd party literally exploits the consumer by rehashing the same game for 4 years in a row, then that 3rd party might as well not support the platform whose consumers it is exploiting. I can guarantee you, if Mario Kart 7 was simply Mario Kart DS Legacy Edition and NSMB 2 was NSMB Legacy Edition, I would not own either of those two games or a 3DS itself. I am sure many people share the same sentiment.

Nintendo platforms (specifically Wii U) have certainly lost a ton of third party support over the last few years, which is really, really bad. However, losing FIFA isn't "losing third party support"; it is losing exploitative shovelware, which is a good thing (in my eyes).

Meh, FIFA is corrupt anyways. It's probably a good thing Sepp Blatter bowed out under pressure?, better late than never! Charges pending, perhaps???

Yawn no one care's about you EA!

Yeah, not bothered.

Well, too much development time went into the PS2 Version.

@Windy PES still gets released every year. Just no longer on 3DS and never has been on Wii U

Eh

I don't like sports games anyways. After all the problems The Sims 3 had I could care less about EA.

I wonder if anyone will try to fill in this niche, EA has an exclusivity deal with FIFA still right?

@Quorthon You sound like a Best Buy employee, you should go back mabye?!

@westman98
Well said

I don't care for FIFA (or most sports games in general) but while this won't affect me it does hurt the wiiu. These games are so popular and it would not hurt wiiu sales to have it.

Yeah, FIFA won't sell on Nintendo consoles, there simply aren't enough ignorant morons to make a profit.

Stick with the PS and mobile. Plenty of idiots there. Can't wait to see Greasy Sepp Blatter get hunted down and strung up. Football is currently BP oil spill grade filthy. Homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, corrupt, violent, dividing. Shame people can't see it for what it is- a bloody game. Sorry, the subject particularly annoys me.

That's okay. I still got super mario strikers to satisfy my soccer needs.

That face is so memeworthy.

Lol. I bet that guy saw that well-deserved epic takedown John Oliver gave him on the Last Week show. it is ok to mention John Oliver right?

I will never understand most of the world's love with soccer, i would love a hockey game, but I agree with most ppl that EA's garbage doesn't sell on nintendo consoles. Only game i bought from them lately is mass effect 3 on wii u, otherwise their games are very boring.

Fifa 13 !

@bezerker99 Yes, now there's only the violent fans, the bribing, the scandalous players wages and the archaic refereeing to address...

"No FIFA For Nintendo Fans This Year"

No CEO for the FIFA this year either, lol.

EA is as corrupted as FIFA.

I will never understand soccer, what's so fun watching 22 grown men chasing after a ball?

Oh EA why do you do this to yourself? FIFA 13 underperformed commercially on wii U because EA took FIFA 12 tacked on a few gamepad features and called it a day. I'm sure their justification went something along the lines of "those nintendorks will never know the difference." Turns out it doesn't matter who you are if you try to charge full price for an inferior product people wont buy it. It just makes me glad that the one non spectacular round moose EA game I own is one that I didn't even pay for (a hand me down copy of FIFA 15 on PS3). If EA put the time and effort into making a good FIFA game for wii U that took was opitmised to take full advantage of what the wii U can do I would seriously consider buying a copy but I guess EA doesn't want my money, too bad for them I guess.

@theBluntKnight please explain why NBA 2k13 and Madden 13 both bombed on Wii U?

A wee bit disappointed I've always had football on my consoles.as others have said fifa 13 is usually in the uk top 10 for wii u ,might not be the biggest numbers but there's clearly an audience for football and sports games in general on the system.

This is devastating news.

I guess Wii did not pay U the bribe money.

I am sad for the nintendo soccer fans. I liked very much need for speed most wanted, but if a company like EA plays two-face and don't put fifa 14/15 on wii u but on wii yes, that's hypocrite for me.

Secondly everybody knows that the relationship between EA and nintendo is cold but don't insult nintendo by calling them crap or insulting mr miyamoto what EA loves to do.

That's why I have sold need for speed and fifa 13 and I never gonna buy a game anymore from EA. Even ubisoft is delayed from my list now.

If those companies don't respect nintendo why do we have to respect them and by their games on the future consoles or the new nintendo DS

@Quorthon
So 4 out of 64 comments is "plenty" ? As of January 2014 , Nintendo have sold over 650 million pieces of their awful , gimmicky hardware. Sigh....
@kobashi100
If Konami released an updated version of Winning Eleven / PES for Wii U they would definitely clean up. Controlling the full team with the wii remote , swapping squad members and taking free kicks etc on the gamepad would be great.
It would also be great if Nintendo did a Sega and released their own sport games ; they have already given us the best Golf , Tennis and Bowling games ever in my humble opinion !

@Gerbwmu Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly can't imagine anyone using a Nintendo console for those games anyway.

@kobashi100 Give me one good reason why I should given that I don't play NBA 2K or madden games, have no interest in either series of game and that they have no relevance to the article that we're commenting on here. Take your strawman argument somewhere else please.

@theBluntKnight both games are relevant. You claimed FIFA was not being released on Wii U because it was political. When the relaity is that FIFA 13 just like Madden 13 and NBA 2k13 all bombed. 3 aport sims released on Wii U and all flopped massively.

There is a reason that take 2 didn't bother releasing another NBA game on Wii U.

@kingofthesofa sorry but if that was the case then why has konami not bothered releasing PES on Wii U. If it was gonna be such a big hit why would they not release it.

The Wii versions were not huge sellers and that's when the Wii had a huge install base.

@kobashi100
If they released it now , with no competition from Fifa , they would have all the potential market ( clean up ) PES on the Wii shifted a similar amount of units to the XBox 360 across all versions. I have no idea why they didn't make PES 15 for Wii U ; they made it for the XBox One with a smaller install base at the time. It was rumoured to be coming to the Wii U at one point , but it never materialised. Which is a shame in my opinion because the gamepad is tailor made for the team management side of things. Also , you could quickly tap your players on the screen in game to pass or cross to them etc.

@Captain_Gonru
You are probably correct that Nintendo would not pay for the licensing ; also I think EA have got the majority of the rights tied up. Indeed , ISS / WE / PES all had fictional players and stadiums at some point. I remember paying to import Winning Eleven on the Gamecube and then paying through the nose for a memory card that had all the current teams with real names. I used to love Pro Evo. Pro Evo on PS1 was so much better than Fifa in my opinion. As was PES on the Wii. Like others on this site I would also be interested in a new Mario Strikers for Wii U , because Nintendo have always made great arcade style sports games. However , this would in no way compensate for the lack of a simulation style game like Pro Evo or Fifa.

@kobashi100
Seeing as you care so much for those other sports sim games that had ports that had sales that didn't meet the lofty expectations of their publishers, what is your theory on why they bombed as you put it?
Lets not forget they were all launch games, The wii U's install base at launch was only around 2 million, did they expect each game to sell 2 million copies on the first day? Has the size of the wii U's install base been a concern for them? Do they believe that a Nintendo console has to have an install base of over one hundred million units for their Nintendo ports to sell a million units? Could it be that because those games were already available on PS360 and PC that the majority of people who bought a wii U when it launched already owned a 360 or a PS3 didn't buy a wii U to play games they had previous versions of on other consoles?

@Rhydas So True...