EA - Wii Caught Us By Surprise 185
A Next Generation story details comments by EA's CEO John Riccitiello about the surprise hit that is the Wii. The exec as much as admitted that they 'bet on the wrong horse' by focusing on the PS3 and 360 during the console transistion, and now are turning the mighty corporate ship as fast as they can to stay with Nintendo's success. "Nevertheless, Riccetello said that EA had the second-largest market share on Wii as of March with 19 percent, thanks mainly to Tiger Woods PGA Tour. Only Nintendo had a larger share. The firm shipped six new Wii titles in fiscal 2007. EA also shipped eight titles on Nintendo DS. The emergence of online, wireless and geographical differences in the console realm also made things complicated in fiscal '07."
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Re:Madden? (Score:1, Informative)
The controls for Tiger Woods, while good, are just too touchy. Many game review sites have pointed out why this is, but basically, I find myself making many "half shots" where i end up stopping mid-swing and starting over.
I'd have to think that the reason MAaden isn't the leader is people waiting for the 08 version instead of buying the "old" 07 version.
Re:Surely it did (Score:5, Informative)
22057 picked Sony to win by the end of this year
13559 picked Microsoft
9183 picked Nintendo
There were obviously a few of us who thought Nintendo was going to win. A fairly significant amount given the inertia Sony already had in the market at that point and the general attitude toward MS here. That's better than 20% of people picking Nintendo, not exactly an insignificant amount.
Re:Everyone was blindsided (Score:3, Informative)
Re:NHL Hockey on the Wii? :( (Score:2, Informative)
No Goalies - At The Start Screen: Hold A and B on Both Controllers and then Start on the first controller
Non-Stop Puck and No goalies! - On he title screen hold down the A and B buttons on controllers 1 and 2, then press start on controller 1, now you'll have a puck that never stops moving, and no goalies at the nets.
Source: Gamespot [gamespot.com]