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.
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.
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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?..