Shameful Human of the Week: Alain Tascan

Meet Alain Tascan, he’s General Manager of EA Montreal, and the Shameful Human of the Week. Tascan recently stated that “the Wii market is a little bit unpredictable these days,” in defense of his studio’s decision to give up on Wii development and focus instead on “big, blockbuster-type titles.”

Congratulations EA, kudos to you Tascan, you’re a bunch of fucking morons. The Wii is not the mystery you insist it is, success on the console only eludes you because you want it to elude you. EA Montreal has made for the Wii such games as Boogie and Boogie Superstar, both of which were quite poorly reviewed by critics. Allow me to explain to you the first step in creating a successful Wii game, you geniuses: put some effort into it. I also do not recall much marketing effort for any of the Wii games produced by the studio, in fact, I had to look up what these Boogie games were (they’re music games). Step two in creating a successful Wii game: advertise it.

Wikipedia has this to say about passive-aggressive behaviour: It can manifest itself as learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.

I submit to you the following: EA, Tascan, and third-party developers and publishers in general act in precisely this manner in order to purposely fail at creating successful Wii games. This allows them the excuse “third party games don’t sell on Wii,” thus they permit themselves to ignore the market leader in the industry, and create an excuse to do what they really want, which is to discriminate against Nintendo.

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