Ubi Says Wii Will Beat EA 61
Next Generation is reporting on comments from Ubisoft, indicating that they are heavily relying on the Wii to fend off advances from business adversary Electronic Arts. From the article: "Ubisoft vowed to stay independent [after EA made inroads to a buyout], and it plans to keep it that way. 'Our goal is not to sell to EA but to beat EA,' said Laurent Detoc (pictured), president of Ubisoft North America in a Reuters interview this week. He hopes that an early adoption of the Wii platform will help push Ubisoft up from the fifth largest independent publisher in North America to the fourth. Worldwide, the company is ranked fourth, although that excludes Japan."
Nintendo ad campaign (Score:4, Funny)
mod parent funny! (Score:2)
-Rick
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independent? (Score:1)
Not a console maker and not Electronic Arts (Score:1)
Not a console maker, not Electronic Arts, and not a movie studio == independent by some definitions.
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what the crap? (Score:5, Insightful)
So it's not really world wide then. That's like me saying "I'm the supreme ruler of the world, excluding all of the land mass not covered by my feet."
side note though, I'm rooting for Wii and Ubi.
-Rick
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Hamad Karzai, is that you?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Wow. Idiotic, nonsensical attempt at a joke, and you didn't even get the guy's name right.
Double whammy.
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And that joke was choice.
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It's "Hamid" (Score:2)
The only version I've ever seen is "Hamid." Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] uses "Hamid" consistently. "Hamad" is either wrong or very, very rarely used - and the fact that Google only brings up 600 results for "hamad karzai" leads me to believe that it's wrong.
Oh God. (Score:1, Flamebait)
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How do you figure?
All they do is produce what sells, and what sells is not always "the best game" but the game that young adults and parents of young children will buy because they recognize the brand perceive a history of quality or at least consistency, that is not to say they didn't leave you or I behind for a different group of consumers. The fact is that any successful business finds and adapts to a group of consumers that are willing to pay for the products they produce. If no one l
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Sega NFL2Kx (Score:4, Informative)
Gee. Let me just go pop ESPN NFL 2K7 from Sega into my XBox. Oh... wait a sec... I don't seem to have it.
What do you mean it's never coming out? Oh, I see. Somebody leveraged their massive size to lock out the competition (and my favorite football game) by buying out the exclusive rights from the NFL.
Canadian football? (Score:2)
When 2K Games lost the NFL license, why didn't it court the Canadian Football League [wikipedia.org]? Where's CFL 2K7? What about Australian Rules or Gaelic football? Electronic Arts could claim that taking the exclusive rights to the top ranks of gridiron football allows other companies to specialize in other affiliated sports, benefiting fans of other sports. It also freed Midway, developer of Blitz: The League, from the NFL ties that were holding the Blitz franchise back.
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I live in the home city of the Edmonton Eskimos, who won the Grey Cup last year (we won't talk about this year). But there are only eight teams in the whole league, and the lack of money shows. More Canadians watch the NFL than the CFL.
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There's no way the developer
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If games are art, that means that just suggesting we let the market decide is crummy advice.
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I beleve there is room for both in the world... someone may enjoy the differing experences of games like Katamari, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy to name a few. Others may want to consume games that are consistant and predictable, much like a MMO style game or sports games.
I personaly like a good story (well told... shoddy gameplay must not interfere with an otherwise great story) above all else. I don't much care fo
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By pumping out bland games, serving up the same warmed up shit year after year, not taking risks, canning profitable but niche game series, treating their staff like slaves, buying exclusive rights to major sports events, preparing to add in-game advertising and generally having a chilling effect on creativity and the industry as whole.
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Someone with a set... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Personally I hope it works. Ubisoft made some of my favorite games of the last generation (specifically Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil). I hope I say the
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No! BAD ZONK!! (Score:1)
Your headline implies that the Wii system will beat EA. The play-on-words makes no sense and is not funny.
You really need to get another job, idiot.
Wii've had enough (Score:5, Insightful)
This "clever" title is confusing and misleading. It reads like EA is developing a console. "Wii" sounds like "we". Wii get it. Let's have an embargo on this homonym, please.
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If
That's a big if, I know.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym [wikipedia.org]
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Honestly, you should keep that sort of thing to yourself. Ditto if you also fancy large appliances.
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i'm only a listener, no other relation.
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On Slashdot, there is limited space to write the h (Score:2)
On Slashdot, there is limited space to write the headline. Slashcode uses a fixed-size text field to hold the title of each article and each comment.
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Re:Wii've had enough (Score:5, Funny)
Oui!
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a good advertisement jingle (Score:2)
Wii Will Wii Will Rock you!
sri
Somebody has to say it (Score:1)
Shouldn't be Hard (Score:1)
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