EA boss John Riccitiello claims the Wii U’s implementation of a second screen “transcends anything I’ve ever done before,” and that current motion control devices are too imprecise.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
“I think there’s something really powerful about a second screen that I think really matters. I think we’re just beginning to realize what we can do with it and I think it’s obvious we can do a lot with it.”
I think it could do a lot to an FPS game, removing the UI on the main screen all together is one thing.
Nintendo need to ditch the motion control and head back to the hardcore. this controller could offer that but as a 'hardcore' gamer i'm concerned that the controller will be too big, I'll need to try it before I can really say. so time will tell. As long as it keeps comfort when playing a game like BF3 I will be happy.
I did'nt like the second screen at first but now i'm actually really into the idea after watching the E3 conference a second time it's like a console version of a DS and thats cool.
this is old news he basically loves WiiU and thinks motion controls are only good 4 sweeping the wiiu screen around to look around your surroundings not good 4 full body control or intricate motions but at least he loves WiiU he sounds like he wont be supporting MOVE/KINECT in 2012.
motion controls have had there day that is why nintendo have moved away from them this gen, on the other hand microsoft and sony are trying still to push the idea. its had its time the tablet is the way forward i think
WTF? Not only do you steal an interview with Industry Gamer, but you completely misquote him.
Garbage article, garbage website. Never visiting again.