EA Sports senior software engineer Bob Summerwill calls the Wii U "crap", "Less powerful than an Xbox 360", and more through Twitter comments.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
That dude just took Nintendo to the shooting range with those comments
Everything he has said is true, but he certainly wasn't pulling any punches. A little decorum would be nice on Twitter, where people seem to lose all sense of class. Still, I don't know why hardcore Nintendo fans can't just mentally snip out the middle-man and get angry at Nintendo for making such poor hardware as opposed to the - loudmouthed - devs and publishers who simply can't be bothered to work on it. Whose fault is it, really?
I doubt Bob will get a talking to seeing as sports engineers are like gold to EA
Someone try to convince me that EA's not bitter at this point. I would LOVE to see someone prove that to me.
@bicfitness
"Conversely, can you prove that EA ARE bitter?"
You can't be serious. Look at the tweet.
"The WiiU is crap. Less powerful than an XBOX360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet. Nintendo are walking dead at this point."
How does that not sound bitter to you? That's coming straight from EA's staff.
Furthermore, the Origin rumor was never denied either. So you can't simply write it off as if it was nothing. Take it with a grain of salt, but it makes a lot of sense considering EA and Nintendo were so tight at first and then suddenly their partnership dropped off the face of the earth.
EA are not fans of the Wii U