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EA 'blown away' by Wii U innovation

Posted Jun 29, 2011 at 5:00PM EST by Carl B

Listed in: News Tags: battlefield 3, Electronic Arts, FIFA, Frank Gibeau, Madden, Nintendo
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EA has more great things to say about Wii U.

 

"We were really blown away by the unique innovation that Nintendo brings with the Wii U controller on a high performance machine," Frank Gibeau told Games Industry. "The ability to do HD graphics and access game experiences in a completely novel way and a way that's never been seen before, it really struck our fancy."

 

"We were excited by what Nintendo presented to us, we thought about it and it fits well with what we're trying to do with our franchises like FIFA and Madden and Battlefield," he continued. "There's great horsepower there, great innovation and Nintendo's got fantastic branding. We're platform agnostic as a company so if we find something we believe will have success commercially and critically, and has a business model that works for us, we're in."

 

EA has been very high on Wii U, so how long have they had dev kits?

 

"We've had it for a little while, I can't really go into the details of it. We've had machines and we've been working on games. At the E3 press conference what was really important for us was to establish the relationship and talk about a few things, what we're thinking about and excited about, and we'll show games when they're looking ready, when they're looking tight," Gibeau explained.

 

See what BioWare and id Soft have to say about Wii U.

 

via Games Industry



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-1 # RE: EA 'blown away' by Wii U innovationColorblindMonk 2011-06-29 18:55
Good to see a company not biased toward a specific brand. I'd love to see what they'll do with the Wii U, especially with Battlefield.

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-1 # ...Mickle 2011-06-29 19:29
I'm still not totally convinced about that Wii U controller but they made plenty odd ideas work before so I'll give them the benefit of doubt, and i'm just glad Nintendo's still trying original innovative ideas because imagine how lazy and greedy the industry would get without Nintendo, i mean at least MS tried Kinect but i dunno 16 years and Sony's done little more innovative than throwing technology at their consoles and hope something sticks.

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-1 # RE: EA 'blown away' by Wii U innovationreza666 2011-06-30 15:08
i wouldn't call bringing a tablet as controller as innovation but silly or crazy are words coming to mind :)

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-1 # RE: EA 'blown away' by Wii U innovationDeltaDAWG 2011-07-15 18:44
All I know is, using the GBA with the gamecube was a blast. This will add so much more!

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