I love how you spin it.
Frostbite Technical Director on why Frostbite never came to Wii U
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Its a Nintendo thread and the Mods tend to be extremely lazy in those.
will end up banned for revealing reality
Mihael Mello Keehl
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You act like none of that could be why 3rd parties are not putting games on the system. Its reasonable to think this way you act like people are stupid for thinking like that.
Steve Youngblood
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And you don't think that lack of a huge user base coupled with lack of a (significant) technological advance is the main culprit here with lack of a desire to support the Wii U? You think it's "Nintendo allowed resale much to our chagrin!"
First and foremost you mean bandwidth, not latency.
The RAM on the GPU could only help for what fits in it, it will not help at all for something that does not.
GoofsterStud
Member
So true.
Silent_Ocarina
Member
I love Nintendo's games and everything, but we really have to stop with the conspiracy theories.
It's hard for ports of old games to sell on new hardware, but Nintendo should have given developers an attractive system to work with and current generation console owners a reason to upgrade.
It's a shame that so many developers apparently view Nintendo as a laughingstock now, but it's something Nintendo chose to go with when they banked on severely underpowered hardware and a less compelling gimmick.
It's hard for ports of old games to sell on new hardware, but Nintendo should have given developers an attractive system to work with and current generation console owners a reason to upgrade.
It's a shame that so many developers apparently view Nintendo as a laughingstock now, but it's something Nintendo chose to go with when they banked on severely underpowered hardware and a less compelling gimmick.
Online is the biggest feature in FIFA games.
And from what you're saying, taking the previous game, adding features, and making updates... that's pretty much what every FIFA title does.
The controller features are quite good unless you think the Wii U controller sucks.
H_Prestige
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If that were true, then third parties would not put games on any new system since the install base is too low.
Dcube
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While that could very well be true I personally don't buy it, something feels off about this whole thing. Like we are missing something.
"We did some test with not so promising results" = Nintendo refused to pay us for a sh*tty, badly coded port of our 4 year game at premium price. Did we mention that the team consisted of the janitor, a couple of interns (from a major with little to no relevance to actual videogame development), and the guy no one talks at the office?
You can now port Mobile games to Wii U very easily! Doesn't that counts?
grosvenor_92
Member
I hope Nintendo has a shit ton of first party games coming out to make up for the lack of third party support.
Or you're just reading too much into it.
megabytecr
Member
This.
I wonder what that was, I guess EA maybe wanted Nintendo to be involved somehow in this relea$$$$$e.
Steve Youngblood
Member
I'd hate to be Johan Anderson right now, because he just got served.
Gonzo The Great
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EA cancelled the Wii U version of Crysis 3 before the console launched. I'm sure that had to do with poor sales.
Starfish Hero
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Console launches aren't what they used to be. This gen (3DS, Vita, Wii U) is starting to be characterized by a complete lack of post-launch momentum. This is a new phenomenon. When consoles sold faster having one of the only games out for a few months was a plus.
Dcube
Member
Quite possibly, but I can't shake he hunch. The mystery that there could be more to this is alluring.
RukusProvider
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Only Nintendo 1st party games (and some regional Japanese games) can boost the WiiU to a less than embarrassing level.
It'll never even hit mediocre.
Projectjustice
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This is a business of making money. Wii U just isnt viable for EA at the moment. And dat last tweet! Lol
Arc Christelle
Member
Can I just fast forward to June? [or better yet the 21st.] The hater's circle-jerk is getting ridiculous. Also as much as everyone rides EA, I'm sure at this point, they were never Nintendo's saviors to begin with.
I guess I'm not supposed to call this salty.
this is sarcasm, right?
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Then why did some games get pulled, like crysis 3?
maverick40
Junior Member
Ha the Wii u is finished.
Doesn't Matter.
We have cryengine 3
Also check out EA stance on cube and what they thought it could do vs what factor 5 ended up doing in less than year with the same hardware.
This is a wasted opportunity between nintendo and ea as usual. Frostbite on the platform would be great just get the engine running and give it to a nintendo team they can easily figure out things to do with it.
frankie_baby
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while EAs games unsurprisingly sold like shit i doubt any are close to that little worldwide
Gonzo The Great
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I don't think EA even bothered. If they really wanted to support the Wii U then they would have found a way to get the engine to work.
lmao
Kudos to whoever made this.
lmao
Kudos to whoever made this.
lwilliams3
Member
Lol, who made that?
what movie is this from? i've seen it, can't remember it now.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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LOL..damn
You don't think numerous people have asked already?
frankie_baby
Member
have any journalists though when interviewing EA staff
Technosteve
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I think your deluding yourselves, if they thought BF3 BF4 would sell on Wii U they would find a way to port it.
Ninja Scooter
Member
You mean the same "nintendo team" that can't even figure out how to get Pikmin 3 out on time?
I'd say that EA's current stuffing of the Wii U is pretty unprecedented.
I'd say pretty much every journalist has asked and most likely been told "next question".
That's not even unprecedented, given what happened with the Dreamcast.
frankie_baby
Member
i dont doubt BF4 would sell enough on the wii u to at least be profitable which is why i'm convinced there is a fall out, EA aren't some resource starved mid tier publisher putting it out on wii u shouldn't take much effort from them
darkistheway
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Give it a rest.
-COOLIO-
The Everyman
until we see frostbite 3 running on current gen, how can we assume that it's easy to downgrade the engine for the wii u?
Ninja Scooter
Member
Give what a rest?
frankie_baby
Member
i'm certain you're right but have any journalists ever actually just typed up that they asked and got the inevitable response, if nothing else it would show they were doing their job and not just being press release rewritters
LiquidSolid
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It's not even just the underpowered hardware and less compelling gimmick that makes it an unattractive system though, Nintendo made some other really stupid decisions and in terms of development environments, are still FAR behind Sony and Microsoft. I'm STILL baffled that those idiots never bothered to release the specs to developers, which meant the developers had no clue how powerful it was and were basically stumbling in the darkness. Say all you want about lazy ports but that kind of bullshit is what creates them, so they're indirectly Nintendo's fault as well. And if that's the kind of extra effort you have to go through to develop on the Wii U, why bother with it when it doesn't have a huge user base anyway? I mean, I know why they didn't release the specs (PR, can't bring up those comparisons) but the handling of the Wii U has been laughable.
It would be hard to find but one of the GAF guys either from Polygon or Kotaku said they asked and got a no comment. Possibly Aegis or J Schrieher(sp?)