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EA Confirms Major Wii Support
Electronic Arts has confirmed they are 100% committed to the Nintendo Wii, reports Gamasutra. The largest game publisher in the U.S. has revealed six games currently in production for the console, which is scheduled to launch sometime in the Fall. From the article: "The EA statement on the matter comments: 'Each title will remain true to the hallmarks of its franchise but is being designed to maximize the power of the Wii hardware and take full advantage of the uniqueness and innovation of its one-of-a-kind controller.'"
EA innovating and not just re-releasing the same game with the trades made... I jsut got shivers running down my spine...
--Valthan
I hereby dub this The Jockstrap Announcement.
I don't know how the Wii controller will make video game sports any cooler. I'd rather just go play sports outside... in the sunlight.
Wow! Talk about your inovative controler. More than a two hundred piece skeletal structure and fully thought controlled through a high speed interface with zero lag. Perfect force feadback as well as heat/cold sensations and actual pain when you screw up.
The visual interface features perfect High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting and infinate polygonal surfaces with fully translucent light scattering substructures.
The environment is not only fully destructable, but fully interactive. Every single object down to individual grains of dirt can be manipulated at will and that awesome controller lets you manipulate it through a 100% 3D range of motion including rotation, push and pull along every axis.
For sports games, why would anyone use anything else?
Oh yeah, you have to F***ing excersize. Screw that, I'm gonna try out that Wii thingy.
TW
Yea, but you can't apply feature upgrades or patches easily, the dev tree is closed on release, and besides, it's completely closed source anyway.
Who knows what backdoors and exploits are left in a system like that...
But hey, it's the only system in the world where the trojans prevent the viruses.
Um, I can't really say that I'm surprised at all. Come on Sega could make a new hardware platform and EA would make a few games for it. EA will be making games for all 3 consoles.
You know if EA really wanted to make some news; they'd start a nude sports series that was adult only that was the same exact games except that the players were all nude. O.k. the only games of that line that I would want is women's track & field, women's ice skating, women's swimming & women's tennis. I wouldn't want Nude Madden 2006 at all.
It's just not a console article without you!
Let's see, the article's about the EA's support for the Wii so you mention right off how awesome the PS3 is and finish with a superfluous dig at the 360.
You know, I should probably be annoyed at the low level of the astoturfing on display here, but somehow running across your posts always brightens my day!
Thank you Sony-Shill!
(Hey! Here's an idea! How about you register for an account and then I can find your comments more easily! You could even use the name "Sony Shill"! Unless you already registered for an account and were moderated into oblivion [not the 360 game though, because we all know that really super-duper sucks, right?! LOL!] and so had to resort to anonymity to fulfill your contractual astroturfing duties...)
am screaming in horror at this.
Everytime the Wii is mentioned, I think of 'Gonads and Strife'
Yo! I was playing a video game, And this guy he was like "I got the wiimote" And I was like... OH MY GOD! WIIIIII!
Apparently we're not the only ones who have made the connection, there have been some YTMND pages involving the wii and gonads and strife.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Nice title "EA Confirms Major Wii Support". I, for one, did not know EA was getting into the underwear business. Not at all suprised they are the kind of tightasses that would only make briefs.
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Who is this Major Wii and why is EA supporting him?
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