Rumor: EA Sports creating new NBA Jam

I did, not so much now. I feel very cranky now >:(

tmac,

On a much earlier post, did you not say you now own a Wii? Why would you be crushed to hear it's only being released for Wii, if you do in fact own a Wii?

I do but I know how it works with 3rd parties. It's going to look like crap, it's going to have crap online and it will probably have crap waggle in it.

There was no NBA Jam on the Nintendo 64. That was NBA Hangtime.

I didn't say it shouldn't be on Wii, I said it shouldn't be exclusive to Wii.

He never said no one could have a Wii and be in the crowd that loved NBA Jam back in the day, just that a MUCH smaller percentage of Wii owners fall into that crowd than 360/PS3 owners.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. It's not a bad thing in this case, it's just the way it is. The few Wii owners that frequent this kind of site are so god-damned sensitive that they refuse to acknowledge things that are painfully obvious to anyone and everyone who can see things even remotely clearly.

Maybe we're so sensitive because of the arrogance of the Wii haters that seem to think that they know what's better, and that anyone who isn't disappointed in Wii is either an idiot or in denial

Retro remakes have a strong home on Wii. Arcadey sports games are basically the backbone of Wii's success. There is a huge market for this sort of thing there. This isn't to say that there isn't also a very strong market for the game on PS3 and X360, but this is the typical reaction any time any game that PS360 owners kinda want comes out on Wii, they bitch and whine, then make up a fiction that the game would sell better on PS360, when that is very rarely the case.

You are once again spot on, Khan. And the arrogance you speak of couldn't be exemplified any greater than in Vcize.

"He never said no one could have a Wii and be in the crowd that loved NBA Jam back in the day, just that a MUCH smaller percentage of Wii owners fall into that crowd than 360/PS3 owners."

Keep telling yourself that. The retro crowd is on the Wii. It's about the only 'hardcore' market the Wii does very good in.
I'd love to know you rationale for saying they're on PS360? Is it the Turtles in Time remake that dropped off the XBLA charts in less than 30 days? Maybe you're thinking of R-Type dimensions, a game which nobody bought? Gunstar Heroes? Contra? Metal Slug remake? Robotron? Streets of Rage? Bust-A-Move? Rez HD? (my beloved) Ikaruga???
Any of those games do well enough to warrant what you're saying?

The only old school arcade games that have done truly well (judged by how many people are playing them on the online stats thing or whatever) on XBLA and, possibly, PSN are Marvel vs Capcom 2, Street Fighter 2, Bionic Commando and then the SF2 remake. Feel free to correct me if you think I should add more to that list.

I'm not fully disagreeing that this is silly to make it a Wii exclusive. I think the bulk of the retro audience is on the Wii still, but it's going to be a hard sell if this is a full priced retail game (and it seems like it will be so far). The notion that the retro gamers are all on PS360, though, is just fanboy revisionist history. PS360 have the adolescent 'hardcore' gamer crowd locked up. Most of them are probably too young to properly play NBA Jam back in the day, if they were even born by then. The ones who fall into the 18-35 demo, which is also obviously very strong for PS360, haven't shown much interest in retro remakes and ports either, with a handful of exceptions.

By the way, in case you didn't play NBA Street Vol 2:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/nbastreetvol2

90 on Metacritic.