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M.U.G.E.N on 30 January 2013
MDMAlliance said:

EA may be saying that (and I kind of think EA is ridiculous for all the weird decisions they make), but you could be jumping the gun by saying the Wii U doesn't meet the requirement.

and how exactly am I jumping the gun? Because we don't have 'confirmation' of the specs of next gen system? This is not the first time this has been alluded in either the media or by game developers. If yo utake a look at the current set of rumors you can see how big of a gap there will be between wiiu and PS4/720. Refer to Ethomaz..the guy can break it down for you better than me.

But yes EA is basically saying wiiu is not part of their GEN4 here..not sure how you can take it any other way

@Superchunk: thanks I will put that in the OP



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hivycox on 30 January 2013
Flanneryaug said:
ethomaz said:
oni-link said:
Wii U to PS4 won't be such a huge disparity compared to Wii and 360. The diffrence will be around PS2 to Xbox1 at the very most!!!

That's what Nintendo fans dreams but the reality is other.

PS4 or Nextbox will have at least 10x (1000%) more power than Wii U... PS2 to Xbox is only 30% gap.

Prepare to be disappointed.


....big time ;)



M.U.G.E.N on 30 January 2013
Flanneryaug said:
ethomaz said:
oni-link said:
Wii U to PS4 won't be such a huge disparity compared to Wii and 360. The diffrence will be around PS2 to Xbox1 at the very most!!!

That's what Nintendo fans dreams but the reality is other.

PS4 or Nextbox will have at least 10x (1000%) more power than Wii U... PS2 to Xbox is only 30% gap.

Prepare to be disappointed.

Got any insider info? Rumors from known sources? Would love to know why you think that



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melbye on 30 January 2013

I wish someone would ask them about the unprecedented support for WiiU they declared at E3 2011, unless they meant unprecedently bad support



Turkish on 30 January 2013
ethomaz said:

Turkish said:

It probably is even a bigger disparity, as a matter of fact, I heard the difference is like Dreamcast vs Xbox1.

The rumored specs shows way more than Dreamcast to Xbox.


I expect N64 vs Xbox 1 personally.

After latest rumours, I think its very plausible to see games as beautiful as the Agnis philosphy demo.



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MDMAlliance on 30 January 2013
M.U.G.E.N said:
MDMAlliance said:

EA may be saying that (and I kind of think EA is ridiculous for all the weird decisions they make), but you could be jumping the gun by saying the Wii U doesn't meet the requirement.

and how exactly am I jumping the gun? Because we don't have 'confirmation' of the specs of next gen system? This is not the first time this has been alluded in either the media or by game developers. If yo utake a look at the current set of rumors you can see how big of a gap there will be between wiiu and PS4/720. Refer to Ethomaz..the guy can break it down for you better than me.

But yes EA is basically saying wiiu is not part of their GEN4 here..not sure how you can take it any other way

@Superchunk: thanks I will put that in the OP


It's more about what they are really trying to say vs what people think they are saying.  People do it all the time with politics (AlGore case with the "created the Internet" thing) so I think it's a bit quick to say that EA is not including the Wii U in their next generation of games.



hivycox on 30 January 2013
ethomaz said:

Turkish said:

It probably is even a bigger disparity, as a matter of fact, I heard the difference is like Dreamcast vs Xbox1.

The rumored specs shows way more than Dreamcast to Xbox.

you can't win with "rumoured specs"....

They can't be true until Sony confirm that...until than you can't argue like that....you sound like a fanboy otherwise.



hivycox on 30 January 2013
M.U.G.E.N said:
Flanneryaug said:
ethomaz said:
oni-link said:
Wii U to PS4 won't be such a huge disparity compared to Wii and 360. The diffrence will be around PS2 to Xbox1 at the very most!!!

That's what Nintendo fans dreams but the reality is other.

PS4 or Nextbox will have at least 10x (1000%) more power than Wii U... PS2 to Xbox is only 30% gap.

Prepare to be disappointed.

Got any insider info? Rumors from known sources? Would love to know why you think that

well.. you don't have hard evidence other than rumours do you?



superchunk on 30 January 2013

ok ignore my previous attempts to say EA wasn't attacking WiiU. I read more (quote I added above) and talked to more on gaf as well, yeah EA is clearly not counting WiiU in their "gen4" definitions.

fucking EA. Their hate for Nintendo is strong.



M.U.G.E.N on 30 January 2013
MDMAlliance said:


It's more about what they are really trying to say vs what people think they are saying.  People do it all the time with politics (AlGore case with the "created the Internet" thing) so I think it's a bit quick to say that EA is not including the Wii U in their next generation of games.


ugh I think you just described the mistake you yourself doing now. EA definitely will have games for wiiu in the future. From a timing point of view they will be next gen projects. But by their internal definitions they are not counting the wiiu. So those games could be uniqe exclusive titles or scaled down ports. 



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