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EA's Frostbite 3 engine, which underpins many of the company's next generation titles, looks like it won't support Nintendo's Wii U (http://www.engadget.com/wii-u-review/nintendo-wii-u-review/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget). 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 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/masseffect/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget) and, as Joystiq pointed out last week, this year's version of Madden NFL. It all adds up to a notable loss of support for the new console -- but hey, EA-style gaming was hardly a core part of the Nintendo experience (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/14/pikachu-yellow-3ds-xl-coming-to-us-march-24/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget) in the first place.
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Via: Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/07/wii-u-frostbite-engine-tests-yield-not-too-promising-results/)
Source: NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=48085879), @repi (Twitter) (https://twitter.com/repi/status/331549012022927360)
Via: Engadget