DICE: No successful shooters on Wii due to difficult control scheme

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DICE: No successful shooters on Wii due to difficult control scheme

A producer at DICE has claimed that there has not been any successful shooters on the Wii. The producer noted that the studio has no plans for the Wii and denotes that the problem with it is its controls for games of the FPS nature.

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DICE producer Patrick Liu confirmed that the studio, which is owned by US powerhouse EA, currently has no plans for the Wii.

He said: "I can say we currently don't have any plans for the Wii. The Wii is a very difficult platform, not just because of the performance but mainly because of the controls. There haven't been any successful shooters so far, as I see it, on Wii."

Liu's comments disprove speculation that a Wii version of the parkour-inspired Mirror's Edge, also made by DICE, was in the works following EA CEO John Riccitiello's recent promise that it will produce half of its upcoming console games for Nintendo platforms.

EA hopes to release games that rival Nintendo's in terms of quality, from casual experiences like a new tennis franchise to core games like Dead Space, which the company released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 last year.

News Source: Videogamer

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