If you’re a Wii owner, you may feel like you’re often an after thought to most third party developers. Not so for Electronic Arts, who has announced they currently have eight titles from their EA Sports franchises slated for the Wii. Eight EA Sports titles? Is it a blessing or a curse?
So, what are all these titles? Well, a little thought and detective work may discern some of them. Obviously there’s Madden Football, and also NCAA Football. There’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour, NBA Live and FIFA Soccer (all three had versions this past year for Wii). That gives the Wii five titles. Throw in FaceBreaker, EA’s new cartoon boxing game that has been announced for the Wii and that brings you to six. So what are the last two titles? It seems possible the Wii might get another SSX title (though, where is the PS3/Xbox 360 SSX title?) and there’s always the possibility of one of the Street titles getting a port (think NBA Street, FIFA Street and the newly rechristened NFL Tour).
That’s some serious support from EA. Regardless of what you think of the quality of their sports franchises, any gamer knows that EA’s support can save or kill a console (see Dreamcast). With Boom Blox already slated for a big Wii launch, it appears EA is one third party taking the Wii’s success quite seriously.
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