No FIFA 14 on Wii U due to 'disappointing' FIFA 13 sales
"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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RojoPosted:
Nintendo really killed themselves with this. Now Wii U sales will definitely drop with the next-gen console soon to be on selves.
SCOPosted:
slapshot101 I relized something today. They can't afford to make these games for the Wii U but they are still being made for the iPhone. I thought that was quite funny that the iPhone market would be bigger then the Wii U market. P
Well not necessarily... With the phone applications they dont need to produce millions of copys on disk its only an app
slapshot101Posted:
I relized something today. They can't afford to make these games for the Wii U but they are still being made for the iPhone. I thought that was quite funny that the iPhone market would be bigger then the Wii U market. P
AlbericiPosted:
well to start wii seems like its for fun chill stuff not anything like cod bf or fifa so good...
MeetPosted:
OGPurge Well that`s what Nintendo gets.
%100 agreed. They're trying to compete by having all these extra games
slapshot101Posted:
I think that games like this are better on the PS4 and Xbox. The only sport games that are good on the Wii are made by Nintendo like Wii sports and Wii sports resort.
imgurPosted:
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...
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