Next-gen EA games will skip Wii U due to performance issues with Frostbite engine

EA's Frostbite 3 engine, which underpins many of the company's next generation titles, looks like it won't be supported by Nintendo's Wii U. Johan Andersson, Technical Director of the Frostbite project at EA DICE, says the company tested Frostbite 2 on the console and found the results to be "not too promising," to the point where it "chose not to go down [the] path" of porting the next version. Leaked slides from earlier this year revealed that EA has approximately 15 games in development that use Frostbite 3, the implication being that Wii U gamers are going to miss out on some fairly big titles, including Battlefield 4, Star Wars, the next Mass Effect and -- as Joystiq pointed out last week -- this year's version of Madden NFL. All of this adds up to a notable loss of support for the new Wii, but then again EA games were never really a core part of the Nintendo experience anyway, which has generally tended to be a bit more lighthearted, not to mention songful.

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Via: Joystiq

Source: NeoGAF, @repi (Twitter)