Wii could be #1 – Says EA

EA have recently held thier annual game expo in San Fransisco. During the show, GameIndustry.biz have taken the time to sit down with corporate communications VP Jeff Brown to discuss the years line-up aswell as discussing the sales prospects for the ...

The interview can be read by following this link or see Wii related snippets by reading the full article.

Everybodys saying that the Nintendo Wii is so unique that its going to be the second system people buy, meaning if you own a 360 or a PS3, youll probably also buy a Nintendo Wii. The funny thing is, some people say that discursively, like its some sort of dig at Nintendo – and what they dont get is that if youre second on everybodys system, youre first overall.

One of the things that we noticed after E3 is we thought, you know, were going to support Nintendo, theyve got an extraordinarily loyal base of consumers all over the world, and we had a number of games we planned to make for Nintendo Wii. That said, we were very surprised by the level of enthusiasm we saw at E3 and subsequently for the Wii.

Toby Mizzi

First gaming experiences were with my older brother playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive. I was about 12 years old when the PS1 and the N64 were just about to be released, and I wanted to get a PS1 based on my experience playing some demo PS1 games at a Video Games Heaven store. On the day we came to lay buy the PS1, they had demo N64 consoles set up in the middle of the shopping centre and we naturally took some time to sample the goods. Dad, who barely played games, decided that the N64 would be a better console and I have never looked back since then. Don't get the time to play games as much as I did when I was younger, though I still enjoy nothing more than sitting back on the couch and being absorbed into a totally different world.