No FIFA 14 on Wii U due to 'disappointing' FIFA 13 sales

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There will be no FIFA 14 on Wii U because of the "disappointing" sales of FIFA 13 on the console, EA has said.

"Six months ago FIFA 13 was a launch title on Wii U," an EA spokesperson said in a statement to Eurogamer.
"Although the game featured FIFA's award-winning HD gameplay and innovative new ways to play, the commercial results were disappointing. We have decided not to develop FIFA 14 on Wii U," they confirmed.

Just yesterday, the publishing giant confirmed that it has "no games in development for the Wii U", delivering a devastating blow to Nintendo's Wii U campaign.

While EA hasn't ruled out the possibility of future Wii U development, its complete lack of support for Nintendo's console is a worrying development for a machine that has struggled to gain momentum at retail, despite the best efforts of the retailers themselves.

With Wii U versions of Mass Effect 3, Need for Speed Most Wanted, FIFA 12 and Madden NFL 13 all ready for its launch window, EA was one of the most prominent supporters of Nintendo's HD console in its early months of availability.

But the publishing giant's Wii U support has taken a downward turn in recent months, having surprisingly dismissed Wii U for its next Madden game, and later declaring no Wii U support for Frostbite 3, on the basis that tests on the console yielded "not too promising results".

In relation to the lack of the new Madden for Wii U, EA insisted that "we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate opportunities for delivering additional Madden NFL products for Nintendo fans in the future."

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slapshot101Posted:

Kiingyy Personally, i think that EA are right to do this. In my view, a sports game is not going to do well on a Wii type of console and it should be made for the likes of Xbox 360/One and Ps3/4.

I agree the only good sport games for Wii will be the ones made by Nintendo themselves, like wii sports and wii sports resort.

LosT_CrayonZPosted:

lol Wii sucks

NasyrPosted:

Kiingyy Personally, i think that EA are right to do this. In my view, a sports game is not going to do well on a Wii type of console and it should be made for the likes of Xbox 360/One and Ps3/4.


You more or less covered it here!

KiingyyPosted:

Personally, i think that EA are right to do this. In my view, a sports game is not going to do well on a Wii type of console and it should be made for the likes of Xbox 360/One and Ps3/4.

FrogPosted:

Well for the small community of serious wii gamers that will be annoying, but I used to play FIFA 09 on wii and all the others on Xbox. It's much better on Xbox haha

LumPosted:

I don't mind seeing this. The wii isn't all that good anyway and not many people are attracted to using it. They made the right choice.

bdgrPosted:

Wii u is terrible. wii shud stop the wii its so bad

slapshot101Posted:

Rojo Nintendo really killed themselves with this. Now Wii U sales will definitely drop with the next-gen console soon to be on selves.

I think that most people who are looking for a sports game would much rather buy Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort then FIFA or Madden just due to how the game is developed for that particular system.

Aruss94Posted:

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GRAPHlCS another loss for wii, one of the top selling games fails on wii, not good news at all.


It wasn't a top selling game, that's why they dropped it. Read the article...


fife is a top selling game, idiot.

ChiPosted:

Rojo Nintendo really killed themselves with this. Now Wii U sales will definitely drop with the next-gen console soon to be on selves.


No doubt man.
Never really took notice to them anyway though.