EA Sports wants stronger user base before it returns to Wii U
You could say that EA Sports – and EA as a whole – has abandoned Wii U. After releasing Madden NFL 13 and FIFA 13 last year, the publisher now has no games coming to the platform.
So what would it take for EA Sports to return to Wii U? It all comes down to the user base.
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson gave some insight while speaking with MCV:
“I build for a userbase. I made games on Facebook because I thought people were there that wanted to play them. Then it became apparent to me that either I had the wrong game or they weren’t there. We had a strong offering on Wii U at launch. The platform hasn’t had the take-up. Our games hasn’t had the take-up we’d have liked. So at this moment we are not focused there. Now they could do a range of things that might change that situation, and we’d never count them out. And should there be a sizeable gamer base there in the future, we would build games for Wii U. But for us it’s less about building for a platform, and more about building for a group of gamers on a platform where they are. And sports gamers weren’t there.”
