EA Goes Too Far With Harsh Wii-U Bashing April Fools Joke, Then Deletes It

April Fools is always played in good spirits in the video games industry, but this latest attempt by EA, which sees the company openly mocking the Wii-U on Twitter, comes across more spiteful than playful.

The ‘prank’ came from the official Twitter account for the company’s Frostbite Engine 3, which EA has previously stated is too powerful for the Wii U to run. EA is no longer making games for the system for this reason, which is fair enough. There was no need for this though:

Frostbite now runs on the #WiiU since it is the most powerful Gen4 platform, our renderer is now optimized for Mario and Zelda.

— FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014

Frostbite will power #HalfLife3, coming out summer 2014! #WiiU exclusive.

— FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014

Good news, we have finally fixed and optimized our ‘netcode’. Uses quantum entanglement for Zero Latency connections. Exclusively on #WiiU.

— FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014

Update: In fairness to EA as a whole, since we saw the distasteful tweets and wrote this news piece the messages have quickly been deleted, presumably after somebody with an ounce of common sense at the company spotted them.

Source: http://www.thirteen1.com/2014/04/01/ea-goes-too-far-with-harsh-wii-u-bashing-aprils-fools-joke-then-deletes-it/

EA always goes too far with everything since the company is run by a bunch of 12 year olds




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There is no point in making a joke and retracting from it. That is called being a woman. I am ashamed to have bought an EA game in my life, brb selling those games.

Wow. They suggested the Wii U, a current gaming platform, would be able to run their new engine as a joke. "Cruel."

april fools jokes getting a bit cruel is just par for the course. case in point you should check out the banner image for the Vita subreddit today.

I like EA

April Fools! They never actually tweeted those statements!

Not that surprising. It is EA we're talking about after all.

The Wii-U is a dead system and nothing will change that, unless Nintendo decides to radically change their strategy which is very unlikely to happen.

People are way too up tight seriously, those tweets were not bad at all.