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In the past, Peter Moore has hinted at the tenuous relationship between the company he helms (EA Sports) and Nintendo’s three-DVD-wide home console (the Wii). Yesterday, the leader of the highly athletic development studio fully acknowledged EA Sports’ lackluster sales performance on the Wii in an interview with Eurogamer, stating, “when I look at the attach rate on the Wii of our software to where I think we should be, we’re under-performing still, we need to do much better.”

Moore is hoping to claim a few extra slices of that sweet Wii pie with the studio’s upcoming MotionPlus-infused sports titles, Tiger Woods 10 and Grand Slam Tennis. Of course, we can’t have a story about Mr. Moore without one of his trademarked Awesomely Ostentatious Quotes: “Those two titles couldn’t come at a better time for us, nor for Nintendo quite frankly.” Oh, yeah. That one’s going up on the fridge.

Peter Moore says EA Sports is ‘under-performing’ on the Wii originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Electronic Arts is totally serious about including ill-tempered tennis legend John McEnroe in EA Sports’ upcoming Wii release, Grand Slam Tennis. According to EA, McEnroe will be just one of several “all-time greats” in the upcoming title, which is expected to take to the court on June 16.

Hopefully EA will package more than just McEnroe’s likeness with the game. We can’t think of a better use of the promised MotionPlus support than mirroring his juvenile antics on screen as we toss our Wii remote aside in disgust when calls don’t go our way.

John McEnroe headlines EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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