EA engineer says 'the Wii U is crap'
"The Wii U is crap," began Summerwill's multi-post outburst. "Less powerful than an XBOX360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet. Nintendo are walking dead at this point."
Summerwill went on to say that, "Nintendo platforms have always been very poor revenue-wise for third parties," claiming, "only Mario and Zelda make money," in reference to the historical trend -particularly on Wii - for first-party Nintendo titles to dominate software sales on its platforms.
Summerwill criticised Nintendo's hardware philosophy with Wii U when compared with its current rivals. "Sony, MS, Apple, Google all following the same playbook... standard, powerful, hardware, with focus on software and services.
"Nintendo are still operating like it's 1990. They should have 'done a Sega' and offered Mario/Zelda as PS4/Durango exclusives," he said, suggesting Nintendo exit the console business as did Sega after its failed Dreamcast console in 2001.
"Instead they make this awful console, and [Wii Street U]. Just stop it! Just make great games!" he pleaded.
Speaking more specifically about EA's present lack of Wii U development, Summerwill said, "Yep, we've got plenty of problems, but Wii U isn't where that family/casual market is. It's on mobile/tablet now.
"It is an utterly intentional decision to focus our resources on markets which actually matter... like mobile, and Gen4," he added, with 'Gen 4' being how some publishers are referring to the next generation of consoles (PS4/next-Xbox).
EA yesterday confirmed that it has "no games in development for the Wii U", delivering a potentially devastating blow to Nintendo's Wii U campaign.
Earlier today, an EA rep confirmed that there will be no FIFA 14 on Wii U because of the "disappointing" sales of FIFA 13 on the console. This comes after the publisher confirmed it will also not be releasing a Wii U version of this year's Madden NFL 25.
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UrfPosted:
-VintageSnippUK_cHaDd3rZliamcole123Rojo Nintendo, please stop making family type consoles, we need a console that can support high-quality games like battlefield or Call of Duty. Stop with the hand held consoles.
Not meaning to hate but Call of Duty is not a high quality game, they have next-to-no physics, the most complicated thing on that game is the range on weapons, the only thing keeping them in the business is graphics!
call of duty is a high quality game, the developers (treyarch and activision) cannot go any further with call of duty simply due to the consoles (ps3 and xbox360's) hardware. such as the processing speed etc. i'm currently playing on a xbox 360 which was made 5-6 years ago. my oh my its served me well but it freezes alot. not because its an xbox360 but because it is struggling to play some of the newer games. soon as the new xbox and playstation is released you can expect PC quality if not better games out. also back onto subject, i have never liked the wii, or the wii u or any of its handhelds. i think that there trying to aim the wii and small children and families which have time to actually use it but i just don't think it is working. i think what the ea engineer said about the wii is 100% true and they are going have to come up with something before they go bankrupt.
Then please, explain how Battlefield 3 has twice as much as CoD.
Because it has twice as many discs lol
Congratulations, you can count. And if you actually owned the game, you would know this - One is for the campaign, other is for the multiplayer. What's your next come back? We can have both discs in at once?
WokzePosted:
to be honest, i have to agree, it is one of the biggest fails of a console ever, they are loosing out on top games like fifa because they dont sell enough, so what happens to games like mario ? they must not sell many copies at all, wii have wasted alot of money and do not have the fan base to earn enough, they cant keep up with consoles like ps3 and xbox, because even kids as young as 5 have them now, and i know that for a fact because i have met some. Bye bye wii u, bye.
-VintagePosted:
SnippUK_cHaDd3rZliamcole123Rojo Nintendo, please stop making family type consoles, we need a console that can support high-quality games like battlefield or Call of Duty. Stop with the hand held consoles.
Not meaning to hate but Call of Duty is not a high quality game, they have next-to-no physics, the most complicated thing on that game is the range on weapons, the only thing keeping them in the business is graphics!
call of duty is a high quality game, the developers (treyarch and activision) cannot go any further with call of duty simply due to the consoles (ps3 and xbox360's) hardware. such as the processing speed etc. i'm currently playing on a xbox 360 which was made 5-6 years ago. my oh my its served me well but it freezes alot. not because its an xbox360 but because it is struggling to play some of the newer games. soon as the new xbox and playstation is released you can expect PC quality if not better games out. also back onto subject, i have never liked the wii, or the wii u or any of its handhelds. i think that there trying to aim the wii and small children and families which have time to actually use it but i just don't think it is working. i think what the ea engineer said about the wii is 100% true and they are going have to come up with something before they go bankrupt.
Then please, explain how Battlefield 3 has twice as much as CoD.
Because it has twice as many discs lol
YinPosted:
EA calling something crap? No room to talk there. Plus, I don't think it's really that professional to trash a console like that. Also, he forgot to put Pokemon on that list of Nintendo games that make money.
SynybunPosted:
Azare He's a human being like the rest of his, with that being said, he has his own opinions and I really wouldn't call this "news".
The news part is that somebody from EA openly dissed another company.
UrfPosted:
I love how they called this an attack on Nintendo. Definitely blowing this out of proportion, just like everything else.
AzarePosted:
He's a human being like the rest of his, with that being said, he has his own opinions and I really wouldn't call this "news".
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