. . . Adam Orth made history a few months ago, with the infamous "Deal with it" remark he spouted when asked about the supposed always-online functionality that would be in the next-XBOX, a feature that has now been confirmed to be null. Now, yet another high-in-position employee has said something so undeniably stupid, you think they just drank an entire can of "Trollaid" and now they're on full-on rampage.
This time, it's EA Sports' software engineer - Bob Summerwill. Recently, Summerwill logged on to Twitter and went on an all-out Nintendo-dissing rampage, calling the Wii U "crap" and saying things like "Nintendo should have pulled a SEGA and release exclusively to the PS4 and next-XBOX". He also went as far to say that the Wii U is even "less powerful than the XBOX 360."
. . . I'll be honest; this is truly sad. You'd expect this to come from a time-wasting, low-life, has-nothing-better-to-do troll, but not a high-in-position video game company employee - who's not only been in the business for more than a decade - but who also works for a multi-billion dollar company. This is the perfect display of what NOT to do, when you're working on the high wire for such a massive company. You're just asking to get fired. Even more so, it's not like EA, despite it's size, is the most favored company among gamers. After all, these ARE the guys who have the honor of winning the "Worst Company in America" award for the second year in a row.
Summerwill's remarks only further tarnish EA's already bad rep, as well as dirtying his own.
Now don't get me wrong - this is the internet. This is a place where you can say any-and-everything you want about anything in the world, and nobody can tell you that you can't - because this is a place of "freedom of speech." But even so, there's always 'that guy' who has to misuse that privilege and say something that so beyond stupid - it makes you think that if the theory of evolution were actual fact - humans would be *de*volving more than *e*volving.
At the end of the day ~ Summerwill's remarks were nothing short of unprofessional, idiotic, baseless and straight-up immature. I couldn't tell if I was reading the words of a deranged troll or an actual official. When your comments mirror that of some 12 year-old on a XBOX LIVE Call of Duty match - you know something's terribly wrong.
But he spoke DA TRUTHSSSS. /s
It's amazing how Orth lost his job over this and N4G users are praising this new guy. I'm sure someone out there will tell me "Oh he was right and blah-blah-blah". But really, I'm not convinced. In my view this just strengthens the notion that EA has a bitterness toward Nintendo. I don't see any other devs calling the Wii U "shit/dead." I don't see any other publishers being this unprofessional.
The only ones who had the gall to allow something like this to happen was the one that is rumored to be bitter toward Nintendo. Gee, I wonder why.
Look the only thing that bothers me about Nintendo is........WHERE DID ALL THE BILLIONS MADE ON THE DS AND WII GO! I hope they didn't waste it on employee perks and new Head-Quaters. Look Ninty definitely had enough money to
a) Make an extremely powerful console
b)Sign 3rd party deals
c)Massive ad. campaign
Didn't like the blog overall, felt like some sort of hate speech.
On a side note; seems Nintendo is in trouble, it has to do something to bring up third parties, It's already losing EA, Activision dissed Nintendo recently aswell.
As I've said before, what he said was harsh & unprofessional, but there was some truth to it. The Wii-U isn't less powerful than a 360 based on it's GPU, but the RAM set-up is horrible even if there is more. It's default speed is half of the PS3 most of the time and only revs up to equal levels in short burst. The CPU is utter garbage improved (3x - 4.5x) but recycled from the Wii which again was improved (50%) but recycled from the Gamecube.
So is the Wii U flat-out more powerful than the PS360 "No". But thanks to a better GPU it can render better graphics, however, developers have to do workarounds to make up for the slow RAM and awful CPU (which Nintendo had no excuse for).
EA probably won't fire him, because they don't care since they're not making games for Nintendo anymore, and that's because Wii U's aren't selling well and Wii U owners aren't buying ANY games. Their best selling third party game is still under 500k units sold even with a console bundle, and the majority of the rest are under 150k sold.
@Extreme
Basically I was trying to prove a point that you've pretty much just confirmed.
Most Wii owners were casual gamers, on top of that Nintendo consoles are generally a second / third console for most core gamers.
Casual gamers have no real desire to play any of those games, and gamers who were multi-console gamers already played the prequels / trilogies of those games.
Which brings me to the point. If most gamers who owned a Wii and a PS3/360 then what's the point of them buying a Wii U besides Nintendo first party moving up to HD with PS360 quality games. If (by your logic and mines) most core Wii owners were multi console owners then the only reason people are buying Wii U's is for potential first party games, because they can still play the majority of 3rd party games on their current console, or a superior version on the upcoming PS4 and Nextbox.
The fact of the matter is the Wii U is in trouble and only has Nintendo fans to back it. The casual gamer has moved on to mobile devices, the mass market Core audience are waiting for the PS4 and Nextbox, leaving only Nintendo fans to pick up the Wii U sales.
So that means 3 things:
1. Nintendo fans are hypocrites and only buy Nintendo games for a Nintendo console.
2. The Wii U has no audience to sell games to since casual gamers and the mass market of core gamers have moved on to other platforms.
3. Both.
The facts state that Nintendo fans are hypocrites, because every generation Nintendo goes through the same thing with lack of 3rd party support and it's all because gamers aren't buying their games, so they stop making/porting them due to lack of sales, smaller install base, and inferior hardware causing downgraded ports.
Here are the best selling 3RD PARTY games on Nintendo consoles throughout their history of gaming.
The best selling core 3rd party game on Wii U is ZombiU with nearly 500k in sales, but it's bundled with the Wii U. The best selling non-bundled 3rd party game is Monster Hunter with around 400k sales. A game which normally averages 1.7 million in sales.
Moving on to the Wii the best is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga with just over 5 million in sales, which is arguably casual. The first true hands down core game on Wii with the highest sales is Call of Duty 3 with 2.2 million sales on a system with 100 million consoles sold.
Next the Gamecube. Best Sonic Adventure Battle 2 with 2.6 million sold, again arguably casual. The first true hands down core game on GC with the highest sales is Resident Evil 4 1.7 million which is why it was ported to the PS2, Wii, PS3, 360, PC, and mobile.
N64. WCW vs NWO Revenge with 2.4 million.
SNES. Street Fighter 2 & SF2 Turbo with over 10 million.
NES. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.2 million.
As as facts once again prove the SNES was the last time Nintendo had great 3rd party support. Now I'd rather believe Nintendo fans simply aren't buying 3rd party core games as the trend nearly 17 years proves.
But if you believe they simply don't have an audience outside of Nintendo fans then that's possible as well, and if that's the case then the Wii U is going to sit around 40 million lifetime sales which is more than the Gamecube and N64.