EA engineer says 'the Wii U is crap'

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Summerwill, who according to this Linkedin profile is a senior software engineer and architect at Electronic Arts, launched his attack on the Wii U via Twitter in response to posts relating to EA's current lack of Wii U development.
"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:

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liamcole123
Rojo 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.

UK_cHaDd3rZPosted:

liamcole123
Rojo 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.

-TamPosted:

he was correct

liamcole123Posted:

Rojo 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!

CougarPosted:

Lucozade
Wagering So much hate on the Wii U...I really hope Nintendo doesn't go bankrupt, that'd be a sad death in gaming.


It really would be, however they would be bringing it on themselves. The Wii U is crap, just look at the sales. The 3DS has been way worse than the Original DS'.


It is because they are not coming up with 'good' innovation.

AE86Posted:

if the nintendo goes bankrupt there gonna have to start producing their games on other consoles so that would be a big plus, but it would be sad to let such a gaming legacy go to waste to bad nintendo didnt create a console like the nintendo 64 which was the best.

LucozadePosted:

Wagering So much hate on the Wii U...I really hope Nintendo doesn't go bankrupt, that'd be a sad death in gaming.


It really would be, however they would be bringing it on themselves. The Wii U is crap, just look at the sales. The 3DS has been way worse than the Original DS'.

RojoPosted:

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.

WageringPosted:

So much hate on the Wii U...I really hope Nintendo doesn't go bankrupt, that'd be a sad death in gaming.

imgurPosted:

J-E-T-S Both the Wii and Wii U sucked.


I agree, they are pushing for audiences that aren't really there, and its killing them...


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