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superchunk on 29 March 2013

Because EA was originally going to support WiiU heavily. Then they got pissed at Nintendo and rebelled by pulling all future games.



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Nem on 29 March 2013

Its EA with their spite. The mass effect 3 port was too late to cancel and was outsourced so it would mean breaking a contract. EA doesnt want to bring their games to the Wii U because Nintendo didnt buy their crap online service Origin for the Wii U. So they do whatever they can everytime they have a release and make sure to say that its definitly not coming to the Wii U.

Very unprofessional if you ask me. Maybe this will stop when the new management gets a grip on things.



Moren on 29 March 2013

Once again? Didn't we know all of this already? This is so annoying. This is rubbing it all on our faces. Just look at your recent threads.

I'll be direct and clear. You are an immature fanboy, you are acting like a kid, and you are a pretty pathetic troll. People like you ruin the site and make all the Sony fans look bad.

I don't care, someone had to say it.



KungKras on 29 March 2013

If you aren't a "crazy tin foil hat conspiracy theorist", it is illogical. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to see the reasons.



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Birimbau on 29 March 2013
Cheebee said:
Don't worry, it will likely release for WiiU's sucessor in 2017. For $90.


This.



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Roma on 29 March 2013

we already know why it and other games from EA are not coming to WiiU

we have already had countless threads and the answer will not change no matter how many threads people make!

simple: Nintendo and EA had a falling out



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cunger on 29 March 2013
Turkish said:

But wait, there's more! Battlefield 4 is published by EA, and EA owns BioWare. And BioWare's big upcoming RPGs, as studio general manager Aaryn Flynn confirmed last night, will run on the Frostbite 3 engine. Which, again, doesn't support Wii U.

http://kotaku.com/dont-expect-the-next-dragon-age-or-mass-effect-on-wii-461567682

 

Why would they release ME3 on WiiU when ME4 will never come out on WiiU because Frostbite 3 will not be on the platform? Its illogical.


Wait a minute...  Who said that Frostbite 3 will never be supported on Wiiu?    My understanding that this is the Battlefield 4 engine which is a game that is comeing to Xbox 360 and PS3?  My understanding is that the work of moving that engine over to wiiu hadn't occured yet but I never heard that the wiiu couldn't technically support the engine. What did I miss?



chris_wing on 29 March 2013
cunger said:
Turkish said:

But wait, there's more! Battlefield 4 is published by EA, and EA owns BioWare. And BioWare's big upcoming RPGs, as studio general manager Aaryn Flynn confirmed last night, will run on the Frostbite 3 engine. Which, again, doesn't support Wii U.

http://kotaku.com/dont-expect-the-next-dragon-age-or-mass-effect-on-wii-461567682

 

Why would they release ME3 on WiiU when ME4 will never come out on WiiU because Frostbite 3 will not be on the platform? Its illogical.


Wait a minute...  Who said that Frostbite 3 will never be supported on Wiiu?    My understanding that this is the Battlefield 4 engine which is a game that is comeing to Xbox 360 and PS3?  My understanding is that the work of moving that engine over to wiiu hadn't occured yet but I never heard that the wiiu couldn't technically support the engine. What did I miss?

Nothing, DICE didn't want to port the Frostbite 3 engine to Wii U for BF4, but it was because they didn't want to bring that game to the system.  If they want to put ME4 on Wii U then a engine build could easily happen, however with the EA & Nintendo falling out they probably won't want to put ME4 on Wii U, regardless of engine used.



cunger on 29 March 2013
chris_wing said:
cunger said:
Turkish said:

But wait, there's more! Battlefield 4 is published by EA, and EA owns BioWare. And BioWare's big upcoming RPGs, as studio general manager Aaryn Flynn confirmed last night, will run on the Frostbite 3 engine. Which, again, doesn't support Wii U.

http://kotaku.com/dont-expect-the-next-dragon-age-or-mass-effect-on-wii-461567682

 

Why would they release ME3 on WiiU when ME4 will never come out on WiiU because Frostbite 3 will not be on the platform? Its illogical.


Wait a minute...  Who said that Frostbite 3 will never be supported on Wiiu?    My understanding that this is the Battlefield 4 engine which is a game that is comeing to Xbox 360 and PS3?  My understanding is that the work of moving that engine over to wiiu hadn't occured yet but I never heard that the wiiu couldn't technically support the engine. What did I miss?

Nothing, DICE didn't want to port the Frostbite 3 engine to Wii U for BF4, but it was because they didn't want to bring that game to the system.  If they want to put ME4 on Wii U then a engine build could easily happen, however with the EA & Nintendo falling out they probably won't want to put ME4 on Wii U, regardless of engine used.


I think at the end of the day it comes down to whether the system takes off. If Nintendo gets this system to take off and there is a decent demand for cross platform games on the system it will end up happening. It has very little to do with anything else except for business.



vaio on 29 March 2013
morenoingrato said:

Once again? Didn't we know all of this already? This is so annoying. This is rubbing it all on our faces. Just look at your recent threads.

I'll be direct and clear. You are an immature fanboy, you are acting like a kid, and you are a pretty pathetic troll. People like you ruin the site and make all the Sony fans look bad.

I don't care, someone had to say it.


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