EA Pledges Half of 2009 Titles to Wii

Plenty of surprising news emerged from Electronic Arts' quarterly earnings conference call today, especially if you felt like Dead Space was a little lacking in the waggle department. Gamasutra sat in on today's financial discussion, where EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed a company-wide shift in focus to better support the Wii -- exemplified by the announcement of a Wii version of Dead Space: "We're bringing core intellectual properties and franchises in categories we think have legs on the Wii platform. A good example of this is Dead Space. We're bringing a Wii title to the market this year and it is absolutely going to be the quality and fear factor that you got on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC SKUs this past year." Why the sudden outpouring of Nintendo love from EA? Despite it being one of the company's best years in recent memory when it comes to the sheer number of well-received, original games, 2008 was still a ... (link)