Truly, Nintendo and EA have an unprecedented partnership.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/34079
The Madden series will not be appearing on Wii U in 2013, according to an EA Sports representative.
After speculation that the system would miss out on this year's Madden NFL 25, it is now confirmed that the series will skip Nintendo platforms for the first time since 1991.
Last year, a version of Madden NFL 13 came out for both Wii and Wii U. The Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii all had versions of Madden throughout their lives. In 2011, the 3DS launched with a version of Madden, and after that, EA confirmed that the series was not appearing on Nintendo's portable again.
The official statement from EA Sports is: "We will not be releasing a Wii U version of Madden NFL in 2013. However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate opportunities for delivering additional Madden NFL products for Nintendo fans in the future."
"However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo"
That man's nose must be the length of a football field. Hell, a *CFL* field.
EA, you need to get your heads out of your asses here... you are honestly a joke right now
If Nintendo was smart, they would do a Nintendo All Stars Football game. Put characters from each franchise they have into it.
It would sell millions. No, really, it would. They need to forget the Japan fanbase, or have Retro do it. Or Next Level games. But make an American Football game already. With little effort (online play) it would be better than Madden.
Anyone dumping on Madden is totally missing the point.
Don't bash Madden just because you aren't familiar with it; everyone here gets so upset when people do that to Nintendo, but now are so quick to do so themselves when it's something they don't care for personally.
Look at the Wii U userbase right now. It's mostly people like the ones commenting here thinking they are sooooo awesome because they dump on a series that isn't meant for them because they don't like football video games.
Can I ask you a serious question? Who are you referring to? Because I've read every post here and did not see anyone bashing Madden. O_Be_1 criticised the quality of last year's port, deshayzilla stated his preference for less realistic sports games and Mr. Adolph Vega said he preferred Blitz, but I didn't hear anyone 'bashing' or 'dumping' on the series.
(because madden isn't very good)This is right above one of your posts.
Can I ask you a serious question? Who are you referring to? Because I've read every post here and did not see anyone bashing Madden. O_Be_1 criticised the quality of last year's port, deshayzilla stated his preference for less realistic sports games and Mr. Adolph Vega said he preferred Blitz, but I didn't hear anyone 'bashing' or 'dumping' on the series.(because madden isn't very good)This is right above one of your posts.
This isn't just EA passing on the Wii U, it's the NFL! The NFL will want their game on damn near everything and I don't think it would be EA's decision alone to skip a console. The NFL would be pissed if EA skipped a console because of personal feelings, it would have to be about money. EA has obviously convinced the NFL that Madden on the Wii U won't make money.But the 3DS isn't getting madden, is it doomed as well?
This happened to the Dreamcast and was a very bad sign that the system had no real future but even then Sega had their own NFL game. It was just EA rejecting the Dreamcast, not the entire NFL. The Dreamcast failed despite having a viable alternative to Madden (and one that at the time was widely considered superior). The Wii U will have nothing to replace Madden. Hell, because of the exclusive NFL licence NOTHING can truly replace it. That's just a big hole in the Wii U's library. Sports games like Madden don't really sell consoles but that's really only because they're on everything. For those that care, they play a part in the decision. No one will buy a Wii U because it has Madden but the absence of Madden will lose sales to anyone where buying their annual NFL game is part of their routine. Madden is effectively an expected feature that most people take for granted.
I regret any past "Nintendo is doomed" hyperbole because it all should have been saved for now. The Wii U seems like it is totally finished. This time next year I'll be buying one out of the clearance bin for the three or four decent games it will have by then.
I regret any past "Nintendo is doomed" hyperbole because it all should have been saved for now. The Wii U seems like it is totally finished. This time next year I'll be buying one out of the clearance bin for the three or four decent games it will have by then.No, you won't. No Madden is bad news, but if you really think you'll be buying one from a clearance bin in a year, you have no idea what hyperbole means.
No, you won't. No Madden is bad news, but if you really think you'll be buying one from a clearance bin in a year, you have no idea what hyperbole means.
I regret any past "Nintendo is doomed" hyperbole because it all should have been saved for now. The Wii U seems like it is totally finished. This time next year I'll be buying one out of the clearance bin for the three or four decent games it will have by then.No, you won't. No Madden is bad news, but if you really think you'll be buying one from a clearance bin in a year, you have no idea what hyperbole means.
I'm basing this mostly on the lifespan of the Dreamcast which lasted in America from September 1999 to March 2001. After the second Christmas the writing was on the wall and Sega pulled the plug so I give the Wii U two Christmas seasons as well. Now Sega was in real trouble and Nintendo has the 3DS but will they prop up a failing Wii U or just cut their losses? Bad Wii U news is just snowballing and it seems like unless it's Nintendo announcing a game in a Nintendo Direct, Wii U news is always bad. It's only getting worse.
I'm basing this mostly on the lifespan of the Dreamcast which lasted in America from September 1999 to March 2001. After the second Christmas the writing was on the wall and Sega pulled the plug so I give the Wii U two Christmas seasons as well. Now Sega was in real trouble and Nintendo has the 3DS but will they prop up a failing Wii U or just cut their losses? Bad Wii U news is just snowballing and it seems like unless it's Nintendo announcing a game in a Nintendo Direct, Wii U news is always bad. It's only getting worse.
This isn't just EA passing on the Wii U, it's the NFL! The NFL will want their game on damn near everything and I don't think it would be EA's decision alone to skip a console. The NFL would be pissed if EA skipped a console because of personal feelings, it would have to be about money. EA has obviously convinced the NFL that Madden on the Wii U won't make money.
I'm basing this mostly on the lifespan of the Dreamcast which lasted in America from September 1999 to March 2001. After the second Christmas the writing was on the wall and Sega pulled the plug so I give the Wii U two Christmas seasons as well. Now Sega was in real trouble and Nintendo has the 3DS but will they prop up a failing Wii U or just cut their losses? Bad Wii U news is just snowballing and it seems like unless it's Nintendo announcing a game in a Nintendo Direct, Wii U news is always bad. It's only getting worse.
Oh yes, the over 34 million people who bought Mario Kart Wii are going to see Mario Kart U this holiday and just completely ignore it because the system doesn't have a Madden game. Yes that makes so much sense. ::)
no one NEEDS a Wii U to play Mario Kart.
The Dreamcast to Wii U comparison is a bit harsh. Sega was bleeding money, Nintendo just became profitable again. Nintendo made money on the Gamecube (actually I think more than the PS2 and Xbox) so there is little concern they can't make $ on a Wii U. I think Gamecube is the low end of the Wii U, it's hard to know the high end. The 3DS shows Nintendo can recover from a bad start. Plus, we don't know the pricing/mistakes that Sony/Microsoft will make that may make people re-evaluate a Wii U purchase. I think most people are waiting till all consoles hit because $350 is a lot to drop on a possible regret.we dont know anything about the other systems, we cant start rushing to conclusions that the wii u is doomed
Why would EA be contractually obligated to put it on Wii U? They have the license, they can put it on whatever they want. If EA decided that the only system that would get the game is the PSP, they could do that.
Also, the NFL has no say on what systems EA puts or doesn't put the game on.
The contract does not dictate what systems EA can or cannot release a game on.Um, Citation Needed.
The 34 million people that bought Mario Kart Wii didn't all buy a Gamecube for its Mario Kart game. Does Mario Kart sell systems these days or is it more like people bought a Wii for Wii Sports and then, already owning a Wii, bought Mario Kart for it? NSMB is one of the biggest hits on both the DS and Wii but the Wii U launched with a game in the same series and the buying public did not give a damn. The Wii U isn't going to sell on the same gameplay experiences as the Wii. The Cube had all the big Nintendo franchises and it struggled. The Wii was different because it had a unique experience in Wii Sports that made it so that people felt they had to buy a Wii or they would be missing out. I'm sure the next Mario Kart will be a great game but no one NEEDS a Wii U to play Mario Kart.
I'm amused by all the people complaining about the game not coming to Wii U, but saying that they wouldn't buy it in the same post.While technically true, it's not entirely fair. How many people here expressing disappointment in Madden skipping Wii U this year admitted to liking the series, but refused to ever buy it? Yeah, I'd say those specifically are responsible for the lower sales, but I don't see many of them. No one should be expected to buy a game they don't want and/or like just to support the publisher.
You're the reason it's not coming to Wii U. Simply, it won't sell. Because you won't buy it.
And face it - this is basically EA saying "We give up. We can't create a game that will sell on Nintendo systems. We are out of ideas, so we'll just go to where our games sell because they don't have the competition of first party titles."If that's the last straw, it was a rigged game the entire time. Madden had to be released months after the PS3/360 version launched because the console wasn't out yet. Of course, the Wii U version wasn't going to sell well. To add insult to injury, it didn't have the new Infinity Engine EA touted in the PS3/360 versions. Should we even mention the shenanigans of Mass Effect 3? Or how about Dead Space Extraction, a side-story in a niche genre, being EA's brilliant plan to appeal to core gamers on Wii? I don't think Madden's performance on a console that just launched is indicative of people's interest in EA's entire catalog of games. "You didn't buy Madden at launch... months after it's been out on other consoles. That means you wouldn't have bought Battlefield 4." What the what?
If Straight Right ported Dead Space 3 instead of Mass Effect 3 and had it ready the same day the PS3/360 version released and no one bought it, especially in the middle of the Wii U drought, I'd agree that EA has a point. Marching out months old games and comparing those sales to the sales of the versions already out is like sending a JV squad against the starting lineup of a league's best team.
Those that are just thinking "well I don't care about Madden" are like those that said "well I don't care about RPGs" when the N64 lost Final Fantasy. Those people were fools because they also lost almost every non-Nintendo franchise that they played on the NES and SNES. It wasn't just losing Final Fantasy. This is not just the Wii U losing Madden. EA puts Madden on everything. Even if EA's reasoning is flawed, the perception of the Wii U not being "worthy" of Madden is arguably more damaging than any other third party game.it's pretty obvious that EA is still mad about the failed Origin deal that is honestly, all but confirmed to have happened...
The only thing the NFL could do is whine about it, they couldn't force EA to do it.
The GamePad features of Madden and FIFA last year were brilliant. I owned the games for both Wii U and 360. I ended up selling the 360 versions, but still play the Wii U games to this day (I just played FIFA 13 on Wii U for 5 hours today). The GamePad is amazing for sports games, which can really use a secondary screen with extra functionality, but EA has abandoned the system that could do that.
As for Madden itself. I make it a point pick up a cheap used copy of the previous year just to see what happened about once a decade. I have to say jumping in... Well I've played some Flight Simulators that were less complicated getting started. The series could use a shake up. Go back to its roots a little more.