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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slapshot101Posted:
-Tenth- I disagree I think the Wii U is a good console.
I quite enjoy my Wii U and the only thing I find wrong with it is the lack or good games and Mario Kart.
NasyrPosted:
Kiingyy I agree with this.
Nintendo really have got something wrong, they're no longer a big gaming company that can compete with the likes of the Xbox 360, Ps3 and even the new Xbox One and Ps4.
TaigaAisakaPosted:
MindJake I agree with this.
Nintendo really have got something wrong, they're no longer a big gaming company that can compete with the likes of the Xbox 360, Ps3 and even the new Xbox One and Ps4.
Yeah Nintendo was at it's prime years back. Nintendo could easily become the next Sega when it comes to consoles if they're not careful.
KiingyyPosted:
I agree with this.
Nintendo really have got something wrong, they're no longer a big gaming company that can compete with the likes of the Xbox 360, Ps3 and even the new Xbox One and Ps4.
Nintendo really have got something wrong, they're no longer a big gaming company that can compete with the likes of the Xbox 360, Ps3 and even the new Xbox One and Ps4.
7enPosted:
Victoria_Moore Wii U isn't really crap, its a great console..
But not anything for me, as the games I play are not available for Wii U but for Xbox/Ps3
You say it's great.. But would you gamble tens of millions of dollars on it? And expect to pull a profit large enough to make it worthwhile?
LumPosted:
This is quite a narrow minded approach tbf, as the WII all in all is not overly bad, of course you have to look on the bias side, as this is an EA representative who in taking who edge towards the PS3/PS4, xbox 360/Xbox one sort of scene.
MatsyPosted:
Wii U isn't really crap, its a great console..
But not anything for me, as the games I play are not available for Wii U but for Xbox/Ps3
But not anything for me, as the games I play are not available for Wii U but for Xbox/Ps3
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