rain elbows
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And Black Ops 2 is a mess
EA Sports Engineer: Wii U is crap, < powerful than 360. No $ 3party. [Tweets Deleted]
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And Black Ops 2 is a mess
Compared to the selling power Zelda used to have, then no, it does not.
Zerodoppler
Member
Problem is, EA and Nintendo are (were?) supposed to be business partners.
It's one thing when a CEO says another competitor's product is shit or things like that, but when we're talking about a platform owner and a third party developer things like that should never happen. As long as there's no bad blood between companies involved of course.
Steve Youngblood
Member
Maybe, maybe not. But generally speaking, I would contest that I don't think that this kind of chatter occurring publicly really benefits anyone -- save for video game news junkies like us that love this kind of drama -- and is easily avoided. Personally? My hats off to him as it provided entertainment. But I have to think that if I was some suit higher up the ladder than him at EA I would be shaking my head in disgust for being bad at the internet.
vagabondarts
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AndrewDean84xX
Banned
When you work for a company in the publics eye, everyone their is a represenative of that comapny, making it seem like whatever one person says, might be said by the whole company. It's the nature of the business. What's that saying, got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Some run better, some run worse, some run the same. The statement the EA guy made was disingenuous at best.
Every company has its own anti-consumer aspects. None of them are "the most by far" as you assert.
What?
Schnozberry
Member
No matter what you think of the EA and Nintendo partnership, nobody in the industry wants the Wii U to fail. In fact, I bet they'd be thrilled if Nintendo can revive it, so they'd have another place to sell software. Having developers on their twitter accounts making it harder for that to happen is a bad thing for EA, despite Wii U's current lack of success.
IF the Wii U turns around and becomes a successful console and EA comes back to Nintendo and Nintendo gives them the cold shoulder, it could hurt them.
I doubt Nintendo would ever give them the cold shoulder but Nintendo will have to be ready for tons of EA questions at E3.
No, possibly fired for stating his opinion in way he couldn't cover it
Very true, it surprises me how many people still fall into the trap of saying dumb things on the internet given how much these kinds of job related incidents have happened before.
Cerebral Assassin
Member
Most companies will have issues with an employee going off message in a public forum, & given I don't think anyone in this thread has claimed to be offended I have no clue why you felt the need to create a strawman to rant against. Also in future posts could you break your post up into paragraphs, not doing so makes you come across as crazy.
Next week nintendo anounces:
Soccertendo!
Realistic soccer simulator, fun to play. As your club gets richer you also improve your home ground, build stands, build roofs. Play poorly your attendce will drop and you will earn less money, pay well you earn more. When you earn revenue you may buy better players. Compete online, and prove your team is the best.
Yearly updates that improve gameplay, graphics, and rooster. Buy one game, and continue playing that one game for the rest of the console's lifespan. Paid DLC and DRM not included in package.
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That might also be shitting on PES.
Soccertendo!
Realistic soccer simulator, fun to play. As your club gets richer you also improve your home ground, build stands, build roofs. Play poorly your attendce will drop and you will earn less money, pay well you earn more. When you earn revenue you may buy better players. Compete online, and prove your team is the best.
Yearly updates that improve gameplay, graphics, and rooster. Buy one game, and continue playing that one game for the rest of the console's lifespan. Paid DLC and DRM not included in package.
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That might also be shitting on PES.
I don't think he will but I can see why he could. 50/50 to me.
Did you make your Christmas wish in may?
Skyward Sword was at 3.5 million a month after release
Phantom's Hourglass sold 4.13 million as of March 2008
Spirit Tracks is at 2.61 million as of March 2010
I really don't understand why people think Zelda doesn't sell.
krypt0nian
Banned
Smiles and Cries
Member
OMG his name is also BOB aka Billy Bob
you guys are crazy... I'm going back to playing EVE Online it is peaceful in Space
Beetleking11
Banned
If they make new fresh zelda with HD and good marketing.... then there is huge possibility that Zelda is going to get that selling power.
strangedopamine
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Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Painting reactions to the unprofessional comments as "phony" because we got CEOs and politicians is a bit of a dodge. Those people get called on their shit too, all the time. We are always talking about how X politician sounds like a giant baby or X CEO is making a fool of themselves by acting like a dick or frat kid.
Not everyone calling out silly, dumb, or unprofessional remarks is "butthurt" and rocking back and forth in a corner. Or even necessarily disagrees with every point of the person being called out.
Not everyone calling out silly, dumb, or unprofessional remarks is "butthurt" and rocking back and forth in a corner. Or even necessarily disagrees with every point of the person being called out.
Because Zelda used to sell more than double the amount it sells now.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Not on the Wii U it ain't.
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My wife is not even allowed to mention anything (positive or negative) about her job on social media, or she can be fired. She works for a children's clothing store, not the CIA, so it's not like anything she does is top secret.
Wait so this guy feel bad. The weezer MS guy was a witch hunt. Which one is it gaf....
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Which state is he employed in?
Or they are doing that, maybe they secured a partnership with Konami for PES.
Balls U
Football U
It needs to have a U!
Ultimate Football.
PdotMichael
Banned
Yes that's want the franchise needs to regain it's selling power, that demo they showed when they unveiled the WiiU.
Games in general don't sell as well as they used to.
Wut
Paracelsus
Member
Or just FUtball.
What false pretenses? They told us why, shit does not sell, that's it, and that's a very good reason not to support a system.
The reasoning is sound but not quite the clear and present danger I'd expect in someone being fired.
I'm the only one who thinks he's not been fired?
Yes i would like it to happen because not only he said stupid things on his "official" account exposing his company but also because of the timing extremely close to the sweet billy case but i really think you are jumping to conclusions
Yes i would like it to happen because not only he said stupid things on his "official" account exposing his company but also because of the timing extremely close to the sweet billy case but i really think you are jumping to conclusions
Balls U
Football U
It needs to have a U!
Yes but Nintendo might want to turn it into a franchise. So it meaning it would come out on 3DS and then Next generation home console.
I also thought of another fun mode:
Drunken Ref:
Foul the crap out of your opponents players, punch, foul, injure. Everything is permitted. [Red card style]
Ocarina of Time sold 8 millions on N64
Pancakes R Us
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I don't think we need an explanation. Wii U is selling like shit. Third party stuff doesn't do so well. The only people buying Wii U at the moment are the hardest of the hardcore Nintendo faithful (the group of people that has been getting smaller and smaller as each generation goes by) - and we know which games they spend their money on. Basically, the last of the Nintendo fans. I think this system may even be enough to cull most of them, too.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Opinion on outside companies is something a person that works in the public eye for a company like EA or Nintendo shouldn't have.
You don't see anyone at Nintendo ever saying they don't want to deal with EA because they are North America's worst company, two years in a row.