EA Opens New DICE Studio, Confirms Frostbite Go Engine

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That's hilarious! First they say that they could not get Frostbite running well on the WiiU, and now they said they're going to develop a Frostbite version for mobile and other platforms "from Xbox 360 and Playstation 4 to iOS and Android." Clearly not mentioning the WiiU here indicates that they don't intend to publish any games for it on the FPS side.
 

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Not too hilarious. The team tried to get a version closer to PC and last gen consoles up and running. Not the "android version" of it. The Wii U CPU doesn't seem to be up to snuff. And to optimise the engine to function well on an "isolated" (Power PC) platform many developers have doubts about might not be in their best interest.
 

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Cause WiiU or anything Nintendo is child's play. Considering Nintendo will not hold a press conference at E3 2013 says alot also. Nothing big to show and opting to show anything if new at smaller events or by way of Nintendo Direct.
 

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Cause WiiU or anything Nintendo is child's play. Considering Nintendo will not hold a press conference at E3 2013 says alot also. Nothing big to show and opting to show anything if new at smaller events or by way of Nintendo Direct.
 
i think they said that they won't have it on wiiU and now they have mobile well because mobile is different. they already have one for console but not yet for mobile, maybe it's not worth it for them to customize one for wii alone. while mobile is a big market
 
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The reason why it isn't on the WiiU isn't because of the lack of horsepower, it's because porting it just wasn't worth the amount of effort they had to put in. The WiiU is supposedly too complicated.
 

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"Runtime in Frostbite supports a highly scalable model in order to appeal to the diverse array of platforms available on today’s market," As long as it isn't the Wii U. No, this isn't about CPU power. You can troll on about the Wii U all you want, it isn't a PC beast. It isn't $600+ either. It can at least run mobile level games. This isn't because PPC is "too complicated" to write for. Many previous gens have been PPC based and they've coded for it. It's because x86 is too easy to port to. It isn't Nintendo's choice, it's the other consoles choice to switch to the same platform as a PC and make things that much easier. This is a choice they likely made after they knew what was in the Wii U. Sucks being out first, doesn't it? They're willing to port to mobile because the industry thinks mobile is some magical gold mine of customers that want to play Madden on a 4" screen. They don't realize that for every hit mobile game there's a thousand that don't make a dime. The industry ported a bunch of old titles over to the Wii U, expecting a new market on the console to suddenly blossom out of games people ALREADY PLAYED. When it didn't happen they decided Wii U won't make any money. CEOs are too stupid to realize people that wanted to play AC3 and CoD already owned them, and weren't going to rebuy a game they already had. You want results of a decent 3rd party game? ZombiU is one of the Wii U's top sellers. A 3rd party zombie shooting game. Again, no EA on Wii U, nothing of value lost, have fun paying extra for Jedi in every SW game.
 

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Basicly, EA think they can make tons of money with mobile.
They don't invest in Wii U because they won't make a tons of money.
It's not a question of hardware or horsepower, it's just a money issue.
They play politics and like always they lie to us BIG TIME.
 

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That's hilarious! First they say that they could not get Frostbite running well on the WiiU, and now they said they're going to develop a Frostbite version for mobile and other platforms "from Xbox 360 and Playstation 4 to iOS and Android." Clearly not mentioning the WiiU here indicates that they don't intend to publish any games for it on the FPS side.
Actually its because when Nintendo was looking for a partner to help them with online EA was hoping to ram Origin down their throat, but Nintendo saw that spyware is bad and decided against it, so in turn EA said that theres going to be no garbage sport rehash games or DLC microtransaction riddled half finished games on the WiiU, such a tragic loss for Nintendo..
 
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