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Damagon on 18 May 2013

Isn't it obvious? EA wants to be cool again. First they drop online passes and then they sucker punch Nintendo.



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TripleMMM on 18 May 2013
Damagon said:
Isn't it obvious? EA wants to be cool again. First they drop online passes and then they sucker punch Nintendo.

Coming back with a one, two punch! X'D



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o_O.Q on 18 May 2013

first off this was not an official statement it was simply an individual employee tweeting ( with regards to the power comment he's a senior software engineer apparently so yeah i'd think he knows what he's talking about )

but regardless they've already stated that they are doing no further development on the wii u

...so why should they care?

besides the majority of nintendo fan posts i've seen with regards to EA in certain threads is how much EA doesn't matter to them so i really don't get what this uproar is about



Play4Fun on 18 May 2013
o_O.Q said:
first off this was not an official statement it was simply an individual employee tweeting ( with regards to the power comment he's a senior software engineer apparently so yeah i'd think he knows what he's talking about )

but regardless they've already stated that they are doing no further development on the wii u

...so why should they care?

besides the majority of nintendo fan posts i've seen with regards to EA in certain threads is how much EA doesn't matter to them so i really don't get what this uproar is about


Yep, WiiU is totally weaker than 360.



o_O.Q on 18 May 2013
Play4Fun said:
o_O.Q said:
first off this was not an official statement it was simply an individual employee tweeting ( with regards to the power comment he's a senior software engineer apparently so yeah i'd think he knows what he's talking about )

but regardless they've already stated that they are doing no further development on the wii u

...so why should they care?

besides the majority of nintendo fan posts i've seen with regards to EA in certain threads is how much EA doesn't matter to them so i really don't get what this uproar is about


Yep, WiiU is totally weaker than 360.

yes it is weaker in some areas, an example of that is its CPU



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chapset on 18 May 2013

they are getting free publicity



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Play4Fun on 18 May 2013
o_O.Q said:
Play4Fun said:
o_O.Q said:
first off this was not an official statement it was simply an individual employee tweeting ( with regards to the power comment he's a senior software engineer apparently so yeah i'd think he knows what he's talking about )

but regardless they've already stated that they are doing no further development on the wii u

...so why should they care?

besides the majority of nintendo fan posts i've seen with regards to EA in certain threads is how much EA doesn't matter to them so i really don't get what this uproar is about


Yep, WiiU is totally weaker than 360.

yes it is weaker in some areas, an example of that is its CPU
The CPU is "weaker" because it isn't meant to do what CPUs used to do on PS3 and 360. If your code is heavily CPU dependent, you'll run into issues. It's a different, more modern design. And that's pretty much it.


o_O.Q on 18 May 2013
Play4Fun said:

The CPU is "weaker" because it isn't meant to do what CPUs used to do on PS3 and 360. If your code is heavily CPU dependent, you'll run into issues. It's a different, more modern design. And that's pretty much it.


ok so its still weaker right?



Max King of the Wild on 18 May 2013
snowdog said:
That guy has probably got the sack and won't work in the industry again.

As for EA their hissy fit will end before the end of the year when shareholders demand that the publisher doesn't ignore a console that's going to be the market leader for a while. By the end of this year I'm expecting the Wii U to have an installed userbase over 10m, and the PS4 and 720 lucky to have an installed userbase of 2m each at the most. It's going to take years for the PS4 and 720 to close that gap, if they manage to do it before the Wii 3 arrives at all.

I thought you gave up that pipe dream. Nintendo will have less than 4mil shipped by August... That is less than a million in 6months. And you expect them to ship another 7mil the next 6 months?



pokoko on 18 May 2013

It can't be a bad business move because it wasn't a business move at all, not unless you can prove that it was an orchestrated attack. It's quite possible that EA, as a business, isn't happy about that outburst, either.

People need to cool it with the whole "one employee equals the whole company" thing. It's silly no matter which companies are involved. If another EA employee came out and said he loved Nintendo, would people suddenly take that as meaning EA loves Nintendo? No? Well, then.