EA expands Nintendo focus, announces TWO MySims games for Wii/DS

You can't talk **** about the DS, isn't that like ilegal or something?

I love the DS, and the Wii is also a nice little system, if a little overpriced. I just hate how the good titles are drowned in a sea of mediocrity.

To be fair, the racing game looks like a total copy of DK64, and theres nothing wrong with that.

You just saved a ton of money on your car insurance?

Aero,

I don't know why Dead Space didn't meet sales expectations on the consoles (I know it sold poorly on the PC because it has some of the worst controls of all time without a compatible gamepad), but I could guess Mirror Edge's failure can be attributed to the "this game is really just too short to own" statement found in 95% of the reviews online. I know I wrote it off my PC checklist the moment I found out the game could be completed in less than 6 hour in one's first attempt (much, much faster with subsequent tries); the only people who are really looking forward to it are those that can try hardware based Physx acceleration (basically every Geforce 8 owner or above).

My sentiments exactly. Although I never bought either, I do plan on picking these up in the next coming months. I have have COD5, Fable, Fallout and DLC for the two latter to get through first.

The games are great...but short. Certainly not worth retail without any multiplayer, if you ask me. Dead Space I beat in 4 afternoons and then had no desire to replay it so it went on Ebay.

And with knowledge of their intentions to make them a trilogy consumers might be less inclined to purchase the game knowing they're not getting the complete story.

They are boring games, that's why.

The games press can hype boring games all they want, but they won't sell if they're not fun.

Dead Space is just a whole lotta "Been There Done That", not too original IMO. The other one just felt frustrating.

Generally, non-Nintendo Kart games have meant crap, with the last exception probably being Crash Team Racing

However, MySims has a great sales track record on Wii

Ah, but you explain why that wouldn't happen yourself. You say that MySims would cancel out Mirror's Edge, Dead Space Etc. But the fact is, even if the company still makes a profit, why should they continue to make games that ultimately do not make a profit? The only reason would be reputation, and the only consumer they would need reputation with would be the hard-core / average gamer, both of which would already be impressed with EA by them making those games. There isn't much potential for growth with these games, and they are ultimately more expensive to make than shovelware, with less of a profit, long term and short term. So from a business standpoint: Why bother?

I considered that as well, but similar to the great video game collapse of the '80s, if casuals view a company like EA as one that also makes great hardcore games, maybe they will assume that it's mini-game fests will be of a higher caliber than ShovelWare Games Inc®. Additionally, hardcore games do provide additional revenue sources lately, such as movie righs and various other licensing deals that are harder to get with non-story based games. Plus, perhaps industry rep matters when it comes to getting licensing deals for making games from movies, I don't know. I think perhaps the NFL agreed to EA making all of its games because it thought EA was the strongest choice based on its reputation. The hardcore market will always be big enough to exist, look at the sales of Halo 3 or Fable 2. I'm just saying that I'm OK with companies continuing on with making shovelware if it means they can afford to take more risks for the hardcore segment.

You know, MySims outsold several Mario games like Super Sluggers and Super Paper Mario. Mario Kart Wii is a phenomenon no doubt, but even if EA sells 1/10 of Mario Kart's sales, they'll be very happy with their profits. You see, even 1/10 of Mario Kart is more sales than Mirror's Edge and Dead Space - combined!

Cry moar.

Dead Space and Mirror's Edge are bad titles, but there's a chance the new MySims will be bad too! We won't know until they're out.

eh, what the hell are you talking about?

last i checked, ea makes shit-tons of money, and their ips usually sell very well.

are you just looking for an excuse to post the whole 'gaming is dying' argument? because, if anything, the last two years have shown that to be false.

Man, you have some shitty taste in games Sami. Dead Space was an excellent game. Too bad you can't have good taste like some of us.

Also, EA has been hitting fairly hard times right now, no doubt partially from the economy, but also from the less-than-stellar sales of their new IPs. You can point to increased sales of video games all you want, but stronger video game sales do not necessarily point to a creatively healthy industry.