I expected them to make the gameplay match, rather than wasting time on mildly improving the visuals- time that should be spent on matching up the gameplay because if there is no significant leap as is now all but confirmed, at least make it up to date with the latest versions.

Give it another year and new consoles will be out or certainly coming around with a new version of FIFA on them. Then you'll find that Wii U will be probably be miles behind visually again anyway...so it almost certainly is time wasted on the graphics if it is not a significant upgrade

@vulcanproject
That's what EA ALWAYS do. The x360/PS3 version of Fifa 06 also lacked a lot of core gameplay elements from the PS2 version
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

So it has nothing to do with the WiiU, it's just EA being lazy again. They spent time improving the graphics and implementing the WiiU's gamepad featues. Next year they will have everything ready for the console, that's what they always do with new hardware.

Can you just wait till the console launch so we can have a better picture of what the WiiU will be capable of? Nintendo already confirmed they will announce more launch and 2013 games at the fall conference (probably next month). I think we should wait and see.

All that matters Hisiru is that FIFA 13 on Wii U is not worth buying if you have access to another platform with the 'complete' version and full feature set of FIFA 13. Mildly tweaked graphics don't make up for missing key features and improvements.

I already pointed out that PS3 and 360 were a significant leap over the previous generation. I also pointed out below why it is damn obvious to everyone but the mostly blind Nintendo lover that Wii U is clearly not that sort of leap and not even close. FIFA 13 on WII U is a PORT. Not a brand new engine for a brand new level of performance.

This very bleeding article is the latest in a long line that says there is no significant leap graphically to Wii U games over PS3 and 360 and their versions. Mild visual improvement, no doubt. Significant leap...look at any single Wii U screenshot or video and tell me its a leap. Everyone then should laugh in your face.

Can you just use a bit of logic? Lets not wait, lets just ignore FIFA 13 on Wii U for other platforms.

You talking about other games and announcements proves my point that you are just attempting to defend Wii U when originally it wasn't even attacked. You are a Nintendo sympathiser playing this down. Who cares about other games here with you babbling on about other releases? What relevance does it have here to FIFA 13?????

I'll tell you. None.

Unless you are being a fanboy.

Of course i do, but the Wii U is not 'next gen' hardware in the same way Xbox 360 was 'next gen' hardware. Isn't that now extremely clear with the talk of just minor visual improvements from the Wii U version...? Clearly you aren't thinking very well today. Engage brain?

Wii U's hardware is most likely similar to Xbox 360, in terms of concept and performance. We aren't talking about building a brand new engine here, a massive overhaul for a totally new level of hardware performance. I thought that much was obvious. Seems it isn't, to you anyway.

I might understand if entirely new engine and routines were being built, but essentially, this is just a port across. Just like all the other launch window ports that apparently are having no trouble fitting everything in plus extras, such as Batman AC or Mass Effect 3.

@vulcanproject
If you don't have, any inside info or specs. How do you even know the system's power if it's not even out yet? Nintendo still has secret games to announce in the WiiU conference lol. I think you should just wait for the launch and then you will be able to compare it.

Saying the "WiiU is not next gen in the same way xbox 360 was next gen" isn't a smart thing to do if you don't have the final specs. Come on man, you know it's not smart, right? You have no proof to support it. As for the engine, I will post it again for you:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

You don't know anything about the final hardware performance, really.

I am not trying to attack you, but I hate when people say something they don't even know if is true or not and state it as fact.

Oh sigh Hisiru.....please don't be a Nintendo Fanboy. It has become clearer and clearer Wii U is not much faster than the current generation. This is just one more game that comes along and demonstrates that.

Minor improvements to the crowd and pitch textures do not a significant performance leap make. Minor improvements to Batman AC or ME3. Footage of Nintendo games mere months from completion, other games in the same situation.

It is BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS to anyone with a brain and eyes that Wii U is not considerably more powerful than 360 and PS3. Just in this article alone the developer of FIFA 13 on Wii U warns: "It's not going to be miles ahead"....

Not enough to warrant building a new engine for FIFA, not enough for anything more than pretty much straight over ports of current gen games with minor visual tweaks.

Don't just write up this nonsense pretending Nintendo have lots of secrets anymore to their machine's power. It doesn't take anything but using a bit of common sense and your brain to realise they have done a Wii and built something mildly faster than what has been around for 6 years.

All the proof anyone needs to see I am just using complete common sense and logic is in all the Wii U games we have seen and comments from the developers like here.

I HATE when we have people like you living in dreamland and pretend it is impossible to make a reasonable judgement on Wii U hardware by now.

If Wii U was such a huge leap as Xbox to Xbox 360, WE WOULD KNOW BY NOW just from the footage and shots.

The fact that we know it has a bunch of ports that look virtually identical to the games on existing console platforms is all the evidence you should need to make a sensible and rough assessment of Wii U's relative hardware....That it is NOT a leap, and NOT 'next gen' leaps we have seen before.