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.
