EA Sports software engineer slams Wii U on Twitter
Posted on May 17, 2013 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U
Update: Summerwill’s tweets have been removed, so we’ve added in a screencap of his more-recent comments instead.
This hasn’t been a good month for the Wii U in terns of EA news.
A few weeks ago, DICE’s Frostbite technical director Johan Andersson said that Frostbite 3 has never been running on Wii U while Frostbite 2 tests were “not too surprising”. EA ended up announcing Frostbite Go for mobile platforms just a couple of days ago.
And just recently, EA confirmed that it isn’t working on any Wii U games. When asked why the publisher isn’t bringing FIFA to the console this year, a spokesperson pointed to poor sales of last year’s release.
Unfortunately, things haven’t stopped there. EA Sports senior software engineer Bob Summerwill has pretty much trashed the Wii U on Twitter, calling it “crap” and “Less powerful than an Xbox 360.” The console’s online store and GamePad were also criticized. And that was only one tweet.
Here’s the full roundup of Summerwill’s quotes:
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion… but man, those kinds of comments really aren’t something you’d want to see.
