Wii U Frostbite engine tests yield 'not too promising' results

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EA DICE technical director Johan Andersson revealed that the developer's Frostbite 3 engine, which powers Battlefield 4 and the next entries in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises, does not run on Nintendo's Wii U.

Responding to fan questions on Twitter, Andersson explained that DICE's Wii U experiments with Frostbite 2 had "not too promising" results, leading to the company abandoning efforts to get Frostbite 3 up and running on Nintendo's latest console.

During the Game Developers Conference in March, Epic Games' Mark Rein noted that Unreal Engine 4 does not currently run on the Wii U. Rein later clarified, explaining that licensed developers could potentially port Unreal Engine 4-powered games to the Wii U, at their discretion

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/07/wii-u-frostbite-engine-tests-yield-not-too-promising-results/

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CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

Wii U needs to just disappear from existence.

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

Oasis Really? I'm struggling to even come up with a joke now. If we're honest, (admit it) even the 360 struggled with battlefield 3. How the hell was a WiiU ever going to cope!?

I'm actually annoyed at nintendo for wasting decent developers time and money when it could be spent on more reasonable machines.


Gotta admit even for a HUGE Nintendo fan boy like me I'm pretty upset that Nintendo didn't pack a little more punch for things like this but honestly they did know what they were doing when making the Wii U like even twelve year olds know you need power to run big things it leads me to believe Nintendo just don't give a f*ck.

slapshot101Posted:

I can see why the frostbite engine doesn't work on Wii U the overall mechanics of how the game is played is changed with the Wii U controls.

WageringPosted:

What else is new...

OasisPosted:

Really? I'm struggling to even come up with a joke now. If we're honest, (admit it) even the 360 struggled with battlefield 3. How the hell was a WiiU ever going to cope!?

I'm actually annoyed at nintendo for wasting decent developers time and money when it could be spent on more reasonable machines.


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