thranx said:
Arcturus said:
echoesfromthepast said:
DICE's Johan Andersson confirmed that the company had tested Frostbite 2 on the Wii U, and wasn't impressed with the results — which means that Frostbite 3 hasn't even been ported to Wii U. The EAmpire Strikes Back.
This, as most of you probably know, is pure BS. If it doesn't work right away, make it work. Don't just whine about it. Making it work is your job. Since Frostbite 3 will be hitting PS3 and X360, hardware can't be the limiting factor on Wii U. The real problems here are ideological stubbornness, bigotry and ugly malevolence. EA has come pretty low when most of use sure believed they couldn't sink any lower.
But is there A New Hope? What if Disney forces EA to put their games on all platforms in order to maintain a relationship with all companies. If Disney forces EA to also make their Star Wars games on Wii U, then EA will have to fit Frostbite 3 on the Wii U. This means that if Wii U sales increase and the console already has Frostbite 3 because of Disney, then we might see other EA games on the console.
Is this a possibility? What do you guys think?
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...or, it's just not worth their time and resources to develop games for a userbase of 3 million.
As for your topic, why would Disney force EA to develop games for the Wii U? What do you mean by "to maintain a relationship with all companies"?
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Disney being a smart company wouldn't want to burn a relationship with nintendo over EA. Since Disney is a big and powerful company they can dictate that EA makes their games for nintendo systems or Disney will have other devs and pubs do the work. Depending on their contract this may or may not be the case. I think Disney and Nintendo can go hand in hand together.
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Why would not developing some games for the Wii U burn their relationship with Nintendo? Is Nintendo not going to allow them to release other games in the future if they do not release games now for the Wii U?
The contract that Disney has with EA is probably not as black and white as "you must release every Star Wars franchise games you develop to every video game platiform on the market". There are probably tons of clauses that allow EA to skip development for a particular platiform if certain conditions exist.
