Maybe the problem is sports games arent popular with forum types so people act dismissive or something?
I'm not dismissive but I enjoyed the last two iterations of FIFA on Xbox 360 despite being favourable towards Nintendo consoles. I still think they're big and important games, but I don't think the Nintendo audience has been the bread and butter of those franchises for over a generation.
More important for Nintendo's ambitions would be something like Battlefield, but that has a very strong competitor on the Activision side and it'll be interesting to see if those games remain the biggest thing there is or if they give way to some other big new thing like GoldenEye-likes and Halo before them. I watched the B4 presentation and just saw the same old scripted bombast (single player anyway). Where is the gameplay putting power to use?
Ultimately, I think EA probably see Wii U as something people will mostly own in addition to something else, and believe the people who want to own only a Wii U and nothing else are of a different demographic to that targeted by their core brands. I think if they see a trend or something that'll work on the console, they'll use it, but they don't seem interested in risk. Two consoles are less risky than one for their bigger investments. Personally I'd say three or more (porting anywhere that might be viable) is probably less risky than two, but with the layoffs and restructuring I think they're going to have a very narrow, particular focus.
And maybe there's a more political angle behind the scenes, who knows, but I'm getting off point: EA sports is massive, I just question how massive its been on Nintendo platforms of late. I'd need to see numbers.
