EA not developing for NRev
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Maybe EA's privy to information about Revolution that would preclude it from supporting the platform. For example, maybe the design is too nontraditional and EA's not convinced of its marketability, or maybe the system's input just doesn't lend itself well to traditional games.
Or maybe the source of this rumor is simply full of it.
In any case, yeah, it would in my mind be a blow to Nintendo if the world's biggest third-party publisher passed on Revolution. But seeing as Nintendo seems most focused on selling its own games, perhaps such a thought would have Ninty execs rubbing their hands together excitedly at the thought of that much less competition for its own games.
Or maybe the source of this rumor is simply full of it.
In any case, yeah, it would in my mind be a blow to Nintendo if the world's biggest third-party publisher passed on Revolution. But seeing as Nintendo seems most focused on selling its own games, perhaps such a thought would have Ninty execs rubbing their hands together excitedly at the thought of that much less competition for its own games.
Why would they need 3 years? It'd take more like 6-8 months to port over a XBox2/PS3 title. Unless Revolution is particularly hard to develop for, which it won't be.
I've see the quote all this is coming from. All the bloke says is he is not aware of any current development for Revolution at his company. Because they don't have development kits yet. U.S developers like EA have only just gotten PS3 dev kits (they're only 20 kits in the U.S ATM) and they'll have Revolution devs kits by next month so its not much of a big deal.
ILUVMATH said:
Well, considering that rev devkits don't seem to be out yet I would guess that EA can't develop anything for revolution right now.
In addition, from the Retro studios article that was on IGN a little while back, it seemed like Nintendo had to pay EA to develop for gamecube(or provide some other incentives). In fact, that appears to be still going on and could be why EA games actually still come out on gamecube.
MrSingh said:The Rev will be the DC of the next gen as far as EA support is concerned.
I doubt it . They will just get ports and thats it . THere is no way ea wont put out the next harry potter game on a nintendo system . They sell like hot cakes . I'm sure nintendo will just give them a greatly reduced royalty rate
I smell dead meat.
So...much....BS.....
Seriously. WTF? Obviously there's no Rev development going on if they have no Rev tools/kits. It's not so long ago they didn't have PS3 kits (though they've since started, presumably having received a SDK, or even a hardware kit). Nintendo has started getting SDKs out to some of their first party developers, according to one of the more recent interviews, and I'm sure EA and other large third parties will get them very soon if that's the case. Getting a kit between now and around E3 should leave EA enough time to prepare for a 2006 launch (up to 18 months, if they're don't target the japanese launch) - it does NOT take 3 years to make a launch game Many launch games are made in much less time than even 18 months! When you consider, also, that the dev environment will likely be very similar between GC and Rev, the learning curve should be minimal - I'm thinking it won't take much time at all for devs to get stuff up and running on Revolution.
Seriously. WTF? Obviously there's no Rev development going on if they have no Rev tools/kits. It's not so long ago they didn't have PS3 kits (though they've since started, presumably having received a SDK, or even a hardware kit). Nintendo has started getting SDKs out to some of their first party developers, according to one of the more recent interviews, and I'm sure EA and other large third parties will get them very soon if that's the case. Getting a kit between now and around E3 should leave EA enough time to prepare for a 2006 launch (up to 18 months, if they're don't target the japanese launch) - it does NOT take 3 years to make a launch game
Many launch games are made in much less time than even 18 months! When you consider, also, that the dev environment will likely be very similar between GC and Rev, the learning curve should be minimal - I'm thinking it won't take much time at all for devs to get stuff up and running on Revolution.Evil_Cloud
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If Revolution ends up having a totaly different controller or method of playing, then i would say that EA will support less than it does now.
therealskywolf said:
Who said they can't support it more? We don't know anything about what's so revolutionary about Revolution so for all we know it could be the best console for playing EA games. Like it could be the best console to make coffee.
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