According to a new report, developer DICE has a Wii U dev unit, but aren't interested in porting Battlefield 3 to the console yet.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
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The " next gen engine in the current gen " should be able to jump to the Wii U with out much trouble tho we are still waiting for some " REAL " console footage from 360/ps3. Down to 8 weeks or so and still nothing...O_o
With all these devs taking a wait and see attitude with Nintendo, you have to wonder what is going on over there???
Also mentioned in the write up...
" the 250 member DICE development team "...
...Wow...those are some big numbers. I think Infinity Ward, the version that made MW 1 & 2 had under or around 100 people. I hope it sells well. With Popcap at around 400+ people and these guys at 250, their could be some lay offs very soon at EA...hope I'm wrong.
btw..I don't consider Jimmy Fallon as REAL footage. I want to see the tank roundabout and the other pre-E3 footage on consoles. I guess EA-Dice are waiting till the last couple of weeks to reveal the...um...TRUTH. ;)
They'll Probally do what EA wants them to do.
if wii u hardware was on par with modern high end pcs(not enthusiast level pcs with gtx590s and 6990s by the way but rather just single high end gpus like gtx570/580 or amd hd 6950/6970) they'd obviously be interested (their pc gameplay demos where running of single gtx 580s by the way). looks like its NOT, it would obviously destroy ps3 and 360 in the hardware department though but will still be no match for current pc hardware.
I'm assuming they're not interested yet because it would be ridiculously stupid to dedicate resources towards porting it to a fourth platform when they're already crunched for time as it is. If EA thinks it's worthwhile, it will get done. Considering they're spear heading Wii U third party support, I'd say it would be a fair guess to assume it's going to happen sooner or later.
I thought Wii U is 5x more powerful than 360/PS3?..