Email: Seems you’re right about them trying to get third parties to leave the Wii

EA is pulling back from the Wii

http://www.edge-online.com/news/ea-montreal-re-focusing-on-hd-quality-products

Considering how much money they are losing, you’d think they’d want to be on the console with cheaper dev costs.

EA has had phenomenal success with their Wii fitness game (forget the name). They have had big success with Tiger Woods Golf as another example. Boom Blox was also made by EA, wasn’t it? I forget about that title.

And EA has lost tons of money on some HD games. Mirror’s Edge ended up being a disastrous loss of money as an example.

Let them hop onto the Core Market again. Watch them swirl down the drain.

There is no business logic or financial logic in abandoning the Wii at all. The “Game Industry” wants the Wii to go away. They keep citing “Wii HD” because that would mean Nintendo would be abandoning its disruptive ways.

Core Market is the ‘high end’ of games. EA might get some profit back. However, that will only be short term.

It looks like maybe the “Game Industry” finally realized what disruption is and hopes that it can starve the Wii to death. But the “Game Industry” didn’t create the Wii, the “Game Industry” therefore cannot destroy it. What is going to happen is that other game companies are going to find big success on the Wii, game companies not associated with the “Game Industry”. There are already too many success stories.

This could be good. Instead of the Wii propping up the “Game Industry”, as I feared, it could very well be the battering ram we need to bust up the industry castle once and for all.