EA's and Nintendo's close relationship.

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It is undeniable that EA and Nintendo have a close and, personally speaking, uncomfortable experience. EA is a lot of different things to different people. To me, they are a sports behemoth set out to rule and destroy the entire video game market at any and all cost...but/and they are financially very successful. Trith be told, EA is more than a sports video game institution, but that is there primary bread and butter. Nintendo, at least in the US, is anything but...they have the smallest installed base of the big 3 and there is, according to market research and sales numbers, limited sports video game interest....but why oh why does EA continue to associate and publish for Nintendo. Yes, Nintendo and EA met to further their working relationship last year....but the recent news to allow for Nintendo franchise characters to be playable in NBA Street provides evidence of a greater relationship and respect. What gives? The new Street may be fun, in all practicality...but the notion makes me want to vomit in my mouth. Wasn't this the same Nintendo than belabored the notion of allowing Namco, Capcom, and Sega working on their franchises.

Then a scary thought entered my mind. What if the Revolution is a EA/Nintendo exclusive console? EA and Nintendo are the two largest and most successful software developers...and this will continue to be true for the foreseeable future. This would be a financial windfall by all accounts. It can be argued that EA (and Nintendo's) games' quality is decreasing, but their financial success is without peer. This is most likely an unlikihood because of the perceived risk of EA removing itself from 2 consoles, but it might be the only obvious deathknell to 2 other systems, especially here in the United States. Nintendo's death with the devil...no revolution in my mind.
 
EA wouldn't play poker with the gaming public. They want to make money, not make one system succeed over any other. It'll never happen. That's not to say that EA or Nintendo won't partner up with some move/entertainment conglomerate and one may get bought out by the other, it's just that these two players couldn't do it alone.
 
I really don't like EA, and I'm very displeased with Nintendo as of late. So that would be a match made in Hell. Two companies raping the game industry.
 
eh, i don't think so. While a financially conceivable idea for the US market, I don't think Nintendo of Japan would fly with this deal. EA in Japan would not bode well with Revolution and might kill off Nintendo, at least in their native area.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']EA wouldn't play poker with the gaming public. They want to make money, not make one system succeed over any other.[/quote]

Unless it's Dreamcast vs. PS2...
 
I mean I heard Nintendo is looking to make an animated movie or something along those lines, and EA is looking to enter other medias. So you never really know
 
Well with the latest news of the next generation of football coming out on Xbox 2 sometime this fall its not very likely.

I dont think EA will associate themselves with any one company. I think they will make their own console its just a matter of time really.
 
I think Nintendo thinks by putting franchise characters in those games it some how makes up for the fact that they can't be played online. Well it doesn't and either does that connectivity crap. Or EA might have came up with the idea rather than just scrapping Gamecube versions of certain sports games due to low sales.
 
I don't see this happening, ever. IF EA would ever combine with Nintendo, that means that they'd have to come up with original ideas. And you know EA doesn't do that.
 
This "partnership" with EA is temporary. EA is only interested in money and wherever they can get the most of it, they'll go. In other words, you can keep expecting EA to support all consoles where large profit is a garantee. Besides, Nintendo of Japan are the real ones in charge, and as most of us know, EA doesn't mean a thing there.
 
I understand that EA by itself has six launch titles in the works for Sony's US PSP launch this year. Also don't forget that EA made a big deal of their exclusive online support for PS2 a couple of years ago. EA goes where they can make the most money, and they don't care about any so-called "partnerships" they may appear to have developed in the process. As soon as the money dries up, EA will be moving on to greener pastures.
 
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