'Sure, with EA being the biggest third party in the world, they have tons of games to release at their disposal. But according to EA, the money spent on translating games will instead be used in creating original titles for the system. EA concerned about money? That doesn’t sound familiar at all, especially with football season coming up.

Currently, one of the ‘original’ games EA plans to release for the Wii is a version of their TheSims game franchise, called MySims. The title will also be released for the Nintendo DS. Of course, the new Madden NFL 2008 will get its Wii treatment as well.'

Ubisoft admitted last week that its early rush to release titles on Wii, many of which were ports of one-year-old games from other consoles, was a mistake, but EA assures that it will be more selective of the games it brings to Nintendo's motion-sensing console.

"You're not going to see every [EA] franchise taken to the Wii," Electronic Arts worldwide studios COO John Schappert told Wired News.

He went on to declare: "Rather than bring the entire portfolio of titles, some of which won't translate well, we're taking those dollars and making original software."

And we all know that, being the biggest third party publisher in the world, 'dollars' aren't something that EA's short of, so we'll hopefully be seeing loads of class original games for Wii following its interesting-looking MySims effort, which is due later this year.

Deathsythe via computerandvideogames.com »