EA employee badmouthing Wii U on Twitter - System is crap, Nintendo should have 'pulled a SEGA'

Posted by GoNintendo May 17 2013 19:42 GMT in Nintendo Stuff

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* http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=559004

* http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202900

The following comments come from Bob Summerwill Senior SE and Architect, EA Sports.

@shanselman The WiiU is crap.Less powerful than an XBOX360.Poor online/store.Weird tablet.Nintendo are walking dead at this point.
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

@shanselman Nintendo are still operating like it's 1990.They should have "done a Sega" and offered Mario/Zelda as PS4/Durango exclusives.
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

@shanselman Instead they make this awful console, and this ... nintendo.com/wiiu/downloads….Just stop it!Just make great games!
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

@shanselman It is an utterly intentional decision to focus our resources on markets which actually matter ... like mobile, and Gen4.
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

@shanselman One more :-). Nintendo platforms have always been very poor revenue-wise for third parties.Only Mario and Zelda make money.
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

@freebsdgirl @shanselman We're stuck with first-party stores on most platforms anyway.What's the alternative on PC?Paying MS or Valve?
— Bob Summerwill (@BobSummerwill) May 17, 2013

Very professional stuff coming out of that Twitter. I wonder if EA is going to say anything about this.

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It's just sad that people in the industry dont have an open mind to things new or different. There's no need to be so negative. Most of what he said was just plain wrong and ignorant.
I hate the rhetoric "nintendo should just make games for other platforms". No one else makes a platform anything like Nintendo's.

Reply by Francis May 18 2013 16:01 GMT

Good thing absolutely nobody takes anything EA says seriously.
Also what the *crag* the THE universally hated video game company opening it's mouth for? It's like they're literally trying to get people to hate them even more.

Reply by Fortran May 18 2013 17:34 GMT

Looks like someone's mad that Nintendo didn't fall for their Origin-DRM-online-to-play offer they had before the system launched

Reply by Fallen Shade May 18 2013 18:42 GMT

No guys they're right I have so much more fun in the origin community than in the miiverse community

Reply by Super-Claus May 18 2013 20:31 GMT

Haven't there been cases where people have lost their jobs over this kind of lack of tact in the past?

Reply by Gold Prognosticus May 18 2013 20:44 GMT

yeah, but at EA it gets you a promotion

Reply by Super-Claus May 18 2013 20:46 GMT

I don't really care about Origin's commnity when Origin itself is massively bloated shitware/spyware/adware and is literally a virus if I recall. It's made by EA really what do you expect.

Reply by Fortran May 18 2013 21:24 GMT

i like origin because it's faster than steam and isnt a bloated piece of poop and the game overlay actually works.
but that's really about it.

Reply by darkz May 18 2013 22:39 GMT

You misunderstood, I said it was bloated, not more bloated than Steam. I don't think it's logically possible to make anything more bloated than Steam without it simply not working at all.

Reply by Fortran May 18 2013 22:47 GMT

I can't imagine Nintendo games being on other consoles because they're often designed around the systems theyre made for (like super mario 64 with the analog stick, wii sports with the remote ect)

Reply by Fracktail May 19 2013 04:57 GMT

But guys the best games of nintendo's are on other consoles!

Reply by Super-Claus May 19 2013 13:24 GMT

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