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May 8th, 2013, 22:58
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EA's Frostbite 3 engine, which underpins many of the company's next generation titles, looks like it won't support Nintendo's Wii U (http://www.engadget.com/wii-u-review/nintendo-wii-u-review/). Johan Andersson, Technical Director of the Frostbite project at EA DICE, says the company tested Frostbite 2 on the console and found the results to be "not too promising," to the point where it "chose not to go down [the] path" of porting the next version. Leaked slides from earlier this year revealed that EA has approximately 15 games in development that use Frostbite 3, the implication being that Wii U gamers are going to miss out on some fairly big titles, including Battlefield 4, Star Wars, the next Mass Effect (http://www.engadget.com/tag/masseffect/) and, as Joystiq pointed out last week, this year's version of Madden NFL. It all adds up to a notable loss of support for the new console -- but hey, EA-style gaming was hardly a core part of the Nintendo experience (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/14/pikachu-yellow-3ds-xl-coming-to-us-march-24/) in the first place.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/ea-frostbite-nintendo-wii-u/
EA's Frostbite 3 engine, which underpins many of the company's next generation titles, looks like it won't support Nintendo's Wii U (http://www.engadget.com/wii-u-review/nintendo-wii-u-review/). Johan Andersson, Technical Director of the Frostbite project at EA DICE, says the company tested Frostbite 2 on the console and found the results to be "not too promising," to the point where it "chose not to go down [the] path" of porting the next version. Leaked slides from earlier this year revealed that EA has approximately 15 games in development that use Frostbite 3, the implication being that Wii U gamers are going to miss out on some fairly big titles, including Battlefield 4, Star Wars, the next Mass Effect (http://www.engadget.com/tag/masseffect/) and, as Joystiq pointed out last week, this year's version of Madden NFL. It all adds up to a notable loss of support for the new console -- but hey, EA-style gaming was hardly a core part of the Nintendo experience (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/14/pikachu-yellow-3ds-xl-coming-to-us-march-24/) in the first place.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/ea-frostbite-nintendo-wii-u/