EA on Wii U support, won’t have games for the system this fall, considers it a next-gen console
Posted on June 8, 2013 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii U
EA’s future support support has been somewhat unclear as of late. The company first indicated that it had no games in development for the system whatsoever, but additional comments seemed to contradict that.
EA president of labels Frank Gibeau has now given some specifics on the publisher’s Wii U stance.
No games coming from EA will be hitting Wii U this fall – ruling out the likes of Need for Speed: Rivals, among others. However, Gibeau did note: “We have guys that our looking at the Wii U in the studio system right now as an opportunity for the future”.
“We have a good partnership with Nintendo. We released four games on the platform over the last year and we’re pretty proud of Need For Speed, and Madden, and FIFA and Mass Effect. We have guys that our looking at the Wii U in the studio system right now as an opportunity for the future, but we have no publicly announced Wii U games that we’re going to release this fall.”
“We’re really excited about the Xbox One and the PS4 and that’s a pretty big endeavor in and of itself. We have four titles out on the Wii U that are active right now, so looking at how things unfold, that’s where our focus is right now.”
Gibeau later said that EA as a whole thinks of Wii U as a next-gen console, which is grouped together with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. When asked why the publisher has no projects in the works for Wii U though, Gibeau said that there’s “no more context for me to add.”
