Now waggle! Harder! HARDER!

Alright, so maybe EA didn’t say that exactly, but that’s more or less the jist of the interview with EA Sports’ Peter Moore. The current problem he’s facing is that Madden currently sells 2 million copies on all of the systems but the Wii, where the numbers stand at 100,000 units sold. And so Peter decides to blame…himself?

“The challenge we face is that that consumer gets ‘Wii Sports‘ right out of the box and that’s a sports experience that’s good enough for a lot of people. That is a challenge for us at times.”

“The bottom line is we knew what we weren’t doing right. We’ve corrected that. We’re seeing progress. Is it easy? No. Will we ever see attach rates for authentic sports games, for licensed sports games, on the Wii to the same we see on 360 or PS3? Probably not in this cycle. Are we going to see continued growth of both? Absolutely.”

Look Peter, it’s not your fault, the Wii sucks, it’s just a fact. All ports of existing games to the Wii are forced to be terrible since they weren’t designed motion-sensing controls in mind, and when waggling is integrated it feels cheap, rushed and completely unnecessary.

Sure it’s possible that motion tech will work seamlessly with sports titles in the future (if you consider Wii Sports “seamless,” you’ve got some low standards there buddy), but that day has not yet come. We are still at the time in history where people who are too lazy to play sports will instead play them with their thumbs, not by jumping up and down and waving their arms like a crazy person.

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