Smaller loss than last year, but huge drop in Wii software sales.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/24395
Electronic Arts has posted a net loss of $201 million for the three months ending September 30, the second fiscal quarter. This is a better result than expected, with the same period in 2009 recording losses of $391 million.
Wii software sales dropped dramatically, with 82 percent fewer sales compared to the same period in 2009. Wii games accounted for only six percent of EA's total output. Nintendo DS game sales were one percent.
EA's leading platforms are PS3 and Xbox 360, with game sales coming to 34 and 30 percent of the total, respectively. This gives them the claim of number one publisher for HD consoles. The majority of remaining revenue is from digital sales, also at 30 percent.
If people were wondering why NBA JAM was ported from the Wii to the HD consoles as suddenly and majorly as it was, that 82% drop in Wii sales probably played a large role (along with the utter failure that was NBA Elite 11, of course).
If people were wondering why NBA JAM was ported from the Wii to the HD consoles as suddenly and majorly as it was, that 82% drop in Wii sales probably played a large role (along with the utter failure that was NBA Elite 11, of course).
But this isn't a contract and it isn't a deal. It's a free market and EA can do as they wish. But it really is complete bullshit. Wii owners were never given a fair opportunity to buy quality EA games in the first place. We've lost a rigged game.
Does EA usually do exclusive games?
But EA has not given us an apology, and it doesn't look like they're making any effort to improve either. The one quality Wii exclusive they were giving us they stabbed us in the back over by making it for all systems, so what was meant to be exclusive for the Wii ended up coming to everything but with the Wii getting the shittiest version of all. How the hell is that fair to us? Their 82% drop in sales is Karma, but the sad thing is they're probably going to blame us for that like it was our fault, and then use it as a pretext to further ignore the Wii.
True, EA hasn't been in the upper tier of 3rd party support on Wii, but they've put out some decent games.
It's kind of the same deal with Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles. People were okay with that game because they thought that Resident Evil 5 would soon follow it. Instead, the Wii got Darkside Chronicles and that did not go over well.