posted on 24. 11. 2009 by Lori in Industry, ea 

EA Montreal cutting back on Wii development

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Never Forget.

Looks like the whole “the Wii is the market leader so we’ll be shifting our attention towards that console” plan of EA has gone belly up, which is grounds for celebration. Not that we mind the Wii, but it seems that not a lot of people not named HAL Laboratories or Miyamoto or Suda 51 have any sort of talent to develop compelling software for the device.

EA Montreal General Manager Alain Tascan has told EDGE that the studio will re-focus on “HD-Quality” Products. And we all know HD-Quality doesn’t fly on the Wii.

“The Wii market is a little bit unpredictable these days. We’re going to see how Christmas is going to do and while with the Wii we have had very successful titles, we are going to focus on big, blockbuster-type titles. It doesn’t mean that we are going to abandon the Wii, but as a studio we want to be ready for new challenges.”

Actually, that pretty much means they will totally be abandoning the Wii, except for finishing up some products that may or may not be in the pipeline.

Oh, and about the whole shtick about the unpredictability of the Wii market reeks of bullshit to me, because I can and will predict the sales of every Wii title just by looking at the box art. One of many skills I could teach John Riccitiello.

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