Do you also play with non-PlayStation devices? Do you enjoy playing as a plumber saving a princess? Or some bald marines? Or maybe you want to play using the touchscreen?
Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer is disappointed with the performance of the company’s games on the Wii U, and doesn’t exactly hide behind smoke and mirrors in saying it, as he did in an interview on Gameindustry International
We were there with four games for them. It’s been a disappointment when you look at sell-through and, as a company, we have to be very judicious where we deploy our resources.
He continued by explaining that the Wii U’s lackluster online suite may be the worst offender in the troubled relationship between the publisher and the console.
The lack of online engagement that we see on Wii U [is troubling]. It’s so integral to what we do. They’re so small it’s hardly worth running the servers. It seems like a box that’s out of sync with the future of EA – which is one that gives a real social feel to our games. The Wii U feels like an offline experience right now.
The Wii U/Nintendo has it's own little world, and had made it clear they are not outright competing with the PS4 or Xbox One down the line. They have enough of an installed fanbase/userbase to make do with primarily First Party titles, and with the rich stable they have, they won't need Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts is a greedy company anyway (one of the most disliked in the gaming community), they were the ones who at first convinced Microsoft to go with an always online/DRM/non-used games policy, which coincided with their termination of online pass codes. EA is equivocally once again catching up to Activision in terms of sheer animosity.