EA Montreal shifting focus to 'big, blockbuster-type titles'

Well, apart from EA Sports Active, their Wii titles aren't exactly flying off the shelves. Can't say I blame them.

at least mirrors edge is getting ported to the wii and psp right?.................right??

Wow, that 3rd party Wii market that everyone (especially EA) was so hot on in 2007 seems to be drying up already, huh? Guess it sort of makes sense since, with the exception of Boom Blox, I've yet to play a 3rd party Wii game that was more than moderately impressive.

After Dead Space Extraction I can understand why they might not want to try so hard when it comes to making games on the wii.

Its not the quantity of games you make its the quality, that is what matters.

Its not the quantity its the quality of games, that is what matters.

Anytime a dev moves away from shovelware and just bad games in general, in favor of supposed AAA blockbuster HD games, you gain my interest. I'll be looking forward to seeing what they can do.

@tmacairjordan87
I agree.

I'm suprised we haven't buried all the shovelware wii games... wait... somehow I feel like history SHOULD be repeating itself... nahh.

Once again, the dude's G3 has no mag in it. What's he firing...imagination bullets?? These are the important things we must ponder.

Army of Two was a good game and I'm the hopeful the sequel will improve as muchy as say Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 2 did. I actually like most of EA's games this generation and I'm hopeful they take this quality initiative seriously and make the already good franchises into iconic ones. A perfect example is the first army of two ... super fun game but a few annoying design issues/bugs kept it from being one of the better games of the year. The melee was broken, the campaign was short, lame forced back to back shooting sequences and at the time I remember the achievements wouldn't always work when playing the game in online co-op mode.

The franchises that EA has created (Army Of Two, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, C&C, Mercs etc) have all been at the very least solid games. Still, they haven't had that one internally produced mega blockbuster game that was praised by the media and gamers alike. Hopefully they can capture lightning in a bottle with AoT:2 and deliver one of the best games if '10. I'm also hoping Saboteur is a sleeper hit but looking at all the aspects of the games development it's hard to see it getting any better than an 80 average on metacritic.

I'm fine with this. Maybe they should have followed this idea in the first place, instead of just creating a bunch shitty casual/niche games and hoping to hit the jackpot. Woulda been nice to have just one good 3rd party action/adventure type game on the Wii from them. I have a Wii, and play all the "hardcore" games the 3rd parties create, after they hit bargain bin. I have fun, and they're cool (at a bargain price) but nothing that I feel would have ever been a huge hit in the first place.

The Wii Dev Kits are already starting to get removed from the work areas (Probably just to some closet). Not that it's a surprise, but the higher ups are saying what everyone else is: Only Nintendo is making significant $$$ from Wii games, for the most part.

I would like to point out that some us of have been saying this about the Wii since the very beginning.

On that note, the Natal will flop. Anybody that wanted that kind of game already bought a Wii and has already stopped playing it. Anyone who bought a 360 doesn't want that kind of game.

Did you just say "making fuck?"

Activision made more than all their "on market titles" in 1 week.
No wonder why they rapidly want to change focus to do like they do.
Its obvious that they envy their success.

The question is if that is good or bad for the gamer.
For the PC gamer it will most likely mean something bad, i guess they will most likely try to mimic the +$10-20 to all highfy PC titles that Activision is pushing in.

I guess it might hear a few of thoes new-bie titles but can maybe assure more high quality titles across the board.

I'm all for big blockbusters but there are a heap of better action games out I would take over Army of Two (Gears, Uncharted, Modern Warfare). Good thing they are shifting away from the Wii but, I feel bad for developers who have been burned trying to make core games for a platform where the majority of owners would rather buy (and probably not use again) some gimmicky exercise board than play a real game.