owned so bad.

Some games justify their existence on the 3/360 tho, like Burnout Paradise/Little Big Planet for instance. What they had in mind just wouldn't be possible on Wii. Which is fair enough. I wouldn't want them to water down a game (features, content) to make it fit when the idea they had in mind only would work on those platforms.

They shouldn't set themselves up by saying they want to rival Nintendo. Ubi said it and that trainwreck is still ongoing..

That might be one of the longest trainwrecks in the industry thus far, starting at the tip of Spain and reaching the Ukraine to this date, and growing.

Thats... GOTTA HURT

"They will also be creating titles dedicated to what they see as a consumer "fascination with fitness," an effort spearheaded by a new EA tennis franchise within the EA Sports brand."

$10 says EA puts Richard Simmons on a Wii game box by the end of this gen

I'm still unclear on what exactly this means.

If a multiplatform game comes both Wii, PS3 and 360 does that mean that the Wii needs another exclusive in order to bring it back up to 50%?

Or does it mean that EA can release another PS3/360 exclusive in order to bump the Wii's share of titles back down to 50%?

To me this isn't good news.  EA basically said they are not backing the Wii out of a belief and desire that the Wii is the market leader and the best system to create games for...but because they lost too much money and need the Wii to hopefully help correct the loses.

That means if the Wii games do not bring EA profit, they will not blame it on the product but blame it solely on the Wii...it also doesn't mean that the Wii will be getting top developers designing for the system either. 

I will wait and see what truly happens with this new direction, but I am more worried than excited.

I hope they realize that they can't just flood the market with crap for the Wii and expect a sharp change in revenue.  I really do.

HOPE and CHANGE sounds familiar

"That means if the Wii games do not bring EA profit, they will not blame it on the product but blame it solely on the Wii...it also doesn't mean that the Wii will be getting top developers designing for the system either.

I will wait and see what truly happens with this new direction, but I am more worried than excited."

If we see that, it probably means MORE dev houses will get closed.  If Wii's not getting these top developers, no one will. =D

"HOPE and CHANGE sounds familiar."

Indeed!

CHANGE is what we've seen in the market.
HOPE is what was lost during E3's.

It's trends like these that could lead to Nintendo becoming the market leader ;) *note sarcasm*

It may sound bad that they're supporting the Wii because it's cheaper to make games for but this isn't anything new.
The PSX got all the third-party support over the N64 for just that reason and it changed the face of the industry.
Besides "cheap" games can be far more innovative and fun than the big-budget ones. Take EA's own Boom Blox for an example -  a game which rivals even Nintendo's own titles.

I'd rather EA support the Wii with quality rather than quantity. I'm sure they're serious when they say they are going to bring a lot of titles to the Wii, but how many of those titles are actually going to be worth owning?

Well, some notable games (at least IMO) that are good from EA so far have been Godfather, Boom Blox, MoH 2, Madden 08 and 09, Smarty Pants, Monopoly (yes it is a good version of the game), SSX Blur, MySims 1/ 2, and Tiger Woods 09.  Besides Boom Blox I will admit they aren’t “must own” titles (Though I think if you like trivia games Smarty Pants is the best one available on the market) they still are solid in the quality department. There aren’t many games that come to mind that are truly poor quality that EA has released besides things like Celebrity Sports, or whatever that was.

Well we already know of Boom Blox 2, the Beatles game, Dead Space and a number of sports games.

I'm really hoping for Godfather 2.

What other games will they bring out? 50% is a lot.

I was pleased with Godfather on the Wii, but guess what... Godfather 2 is coming to the PS3 and 360 but not to the Wii. Trivia games and fitness games seem to be all we're getting from third parties anymore, and I for one am sick of it.

What other trivia games? I can only think of a couple. Also where are all the fitness games for Wii? Now I'd agree if you said there are too many mini-game collections, but I really don't see too many of the examples you gave (I for one would love a good trivia game like Smarty Pants, which was packed with over 20k in questions). There are FAR FAR more crappy shovelware in other categories. Then again there are some great 3rd party games in there as well, not to mention the future looks really bright in regards to that.

I really think that with this EA announcement there is a strong possibility we will be getting GF2. I mean, were getting Dead Space and I would imagine that game requires a new engine possibly.  So since Godfather already has an engine and a framework set up from the first one that would make it easier to develop theoretically.

Though VGChartz places Godfather Wii at only 120,000 sales. That may be a major hurdle.

Didn't the PS3 version of Godfather sell pretty poorly as well?

Once again, I find myself spitting in the face of popular opinion with my feelings that Boom Blox is mediocre and should have been a budget title.

I'm beginning to wonder if there is something wrong with me...

Yes, yes there is. ;)

You can be so cruel sometimes... :'(

Well, I'm willing to give the concept another chance. If the sequel is polished up and doesn't have any components which simply don't work, I'd like the game. When the original game does hit the bargain bin, I might actually buy it again.

Does that help make things right? ???

I don't know why VGChartz lists multiple versions for some systems but none of them did an overly astounding job.

The Godfather: The Game PS2 87,000
The Godfather         PS2 42,000
The Godfather         X360 350,000
The Godfather: The Game XBox 340,000
The Godfather: Dons Edition PS3 200,000
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition Wii 120,000
The Godfather: Mob Wars PSP 90,000
The Godfather: The Game X360 10,000

Only if there is cake ;)

I ordered it for ~9€ from Amazon along with Sonic Riders ZG (13€ but effectively 10 because without it I'd have paid 3€ shipping)...

Is that the Euro symbol? I can't remember. Though whatever currency that is it looks like you got a pretty sweet deal on it.

I'll share with you the cake I got for not liking SSBBrawl. If I play my cards right, I might be able to get people to bake me another pity cake for thinking Boom Blox is mediocre.

At what point did you buy it, and was it new?
I bought Boom Blox the day it was released, and I sold it a couple of weeks later for close to what I paid for it. Because of that, I'm not bitter about it, and that is partly why I am willing to give the sequel a chance and will probably buy the original when it is cheap. It was sort of like a rental.

Last week, both new :P. Hasn't arrived yet, Sonic Riders wasn't in stock.