On the subject of Extraction, has anyone here actually PLAYED it? It seems to have had good reviews (
http://wii.ign.com/articles/102/1028144p1.html) and I've also seen it advertised plenty. But if no one here has actually even played it, why are they acting as though they have the right to call it a good or bad game?
I think this whole thread is indicative of exactly what EA's problem on the Wii is, though I think the CEO either didn't say it or is barking up the wrong tree.
The blame doesn't fall on Nintendo. Nintendo's lack of 1st party titles is probably being done to avoid smothering 3rd party releases. And let me say this: all of my dealings with Nintendo and its representatives have been absolutely wonderful. They've been nothing but the most polite, helpful and accommodating group of people I've dealt with (though up to their ears in work, but that's not something to get upset about).
The problem is that Nintendo fans (myself included) are the most xenophobic gamers on the planet. We REALLY are. We know what we want before it's offered. Dead Space: Extraction, from everything I've read, sounds like a story-driven prequel to the original game that explains the events leading up to the first game, and it sounds like it may very well be superior in storytelling to the original, given the original was just a lone guy on a ship.
I've been a Nintendo fan since the N64. I too have spent most of my gaming life only keeping an eye out for the next Mario, Zelda or SSB game. It wasn't until the GC that I started looking to 3rd party releases and seeing what they had to offer and I found some real gems as a result.
The point is, the attitude of "We don't want a lightgun spinoff!" is both elitist and unwarranted. It's unwarranted because RE:UC showed that players on the Wii buy lightgun spinoffs (though HOTD went on to debunk that notion) and it's elitist because who cares if it's a lightgun game, a FPS or a dating sim? The reviewers are giving it a clean bill of health, it was well-advertised. In the old days, that's all it took to get a good word of mouth going and more sales would result.
The real truth of the matter is that, even if EA released a full-blown Dead Space game on the Wii tomorrow, we'd STILL turn our noses up at it because it's "Not the kind of game we want.", "It's generic", and we'd find reasons to nitpick it, blaming its lack of sales on anything but a xenophobic fanbase. It's not just Dead Space, either. There have been plenty of 3rd party games on the Wii that deserved better sales than they got, and beating the same dead horse excuses just isn't going to cut it anymore.