EA confirms: 'no games in development for the Wii U'
"We have no games in development for the Wii U currently." - EA spokesperson
EA spokesperson Jeff Brown confirmed to Kotaku that "we have no games in development for the Wii U currently."
The confirmation isn't entirely shocking, after EA announced that it had no plans to bring Madden NFL 25 to Nintendo's latest home console. However, the company said at the time that their relationship with Nintendo was "strong."
One reason for EA's absence on Nintendo's console could be the lack of Frostbite on the platform. With so many of EA's forthcoming titles using DICE's Battlefield engine, these games are unlikely to appear on Wii U.
Still, given EA's propensity for multi-platform releases, their lack of confidence in Wii U is quite remarkable. Third-parties haven't necessarily flocked to the platform, with the key exception of Ubisoft. It seems Nintendo is going to have to increase its outreach quite significantly if it wants to draw in more third-party support.
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"We have no games in development for the Wii U currently." - EA spokesperson-
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So, so good.
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And the strangulation of the Wii U continues. EA can make justifications about the "low install base" all they want, but they're not too dumb to realize that a big part of that is precisely BECAUSE the publishers are starving the system of content.
No, I think there is some bad blood here between EA and Nintendo. We can only speculate as to why. Maybe EA's CEO is pulling for Nintendo to fail like most of the Shack seems to be.-
dunno. EA was pretty much the only major publisher with good support for the Wii (1) at launch, so this is kind of a 180 from the last time around.
probably decided the returns didn't justify the effort after the last go-round?-
They haven't been doing well financially either so they're probably not willing to take the risk.
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so why did EA come out as a big Wii U supporter at/prior to launch?
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This was a problem that Nintendo should have seen coming with slow launches of the 3DS and also the competitor the Sony Vita. Nintendo should have worked to secure more titles closer to the actual launch and they should have had more core franchise titles ready to go. If they couldn't they really should have delayed the system by a couple months to pad out the launch line up.
The 3rd parties will make games when it proven they can make money doing it and really don't have a vested interest in growing a platform. It is Nintendo's job make the experience compelling for players.
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I'm not so sure if a delay would have been a smart decision. They sold a majority of their consoles in the holiday season. So now they have a base of 5 million to work from instead of 1 or 2 million.
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they are pulling a dreamcast.
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I don't think most of the shack is looking for them to fail so much as knowing when something is dead in the water.
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I'm not looking for it to fail, but there are no games that make me want to buy it.
And the games that WOULD make me buy it are all Nintendo properties, so it has nothing to do with publishers ...
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Which is funny in context, because Peter Moore was the President and COO of Sega America when the Dreamcast was killed off. And Jeff Gerstmann was on the john during that conference call.-
Haha, I remember when Jeff was talking about that. Hilarious.
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EA is working with NEXTGEN consoles only I guess.
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I think this is more the case. They just don't want to make current gen (what will soon be current gen, 720 and PS4), and crappy looking last gen versions for the same game at the same time.
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*gasp* You mean companies want to make profit?! Perish the thought!
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I wonder if Nintendo is working on their next system and writing this one off as a loss. I mean they aren't even doing a live press conference at E3 this year.
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This is what they did with he Virtual Boy, but I'm pretty sure they have a lot more riding on the WiiU than they did the Virtual Boy.
It's starting to look like the best the WiiU can hope for is a Gamecube-like position in the market. Selling enough to keep the company afloat, but not making any serious cash.
This E3 is going to be interesting. The price of the next PS and Xbox are going to decide whether there is a place for the WiiU in the market, and even if there is a place for it, whether the PS3 and 360 stay on the market as the "value" version can also cut into the WiiU's share.
Please don't die Nintendo.-
Nintendo isn't going anywhere. They still control the handheld market, and even without third party support, they've managed to survive just fine in the past.
Granted, I'd love to see them out of the console game and put their IP on say, a Sony system, but that's never going to happen.
At this point, I just wish Monolithsoft wasn't Nintendo-only and that Bayonetta 2 wasn't exclusive.
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Nintendo said "No" to having Origin placed on the Wii U which would have handed online gaming on EA titles over to EA as well as updates and DLC options.
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