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Thursday, April 24, 2014

[News] The Wii U Got Made Fun Of

On Twitter on April first, 2014, also known as April Fool’s Day, Frostbite, the team that developed the Frostbite Engine used in RAGE and multiple other games and one of EA’s subsidiaries made fun of the Wii U on Twitter.
Posting things such as:
Good news, we have finally fixed and optimized our ‘netcode’. Uses quantum entanglement for Zero Latency connections. Exclusively on #WiiU.
FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014
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Frostbite now runs on the #WiiU since it is the most powerful gen4 platform, our renderer is now optimized for Zelda and Mario.
FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014
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Frostbite will power #HalfLife3, coming out summer 2014! #WiiU exclusive.
FrostbiteEngine (@FrostbiteEngine) April 1, 2014
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These jibes toward Wii U are not what April Fool’s day is about in the gaming environment. The Wii U is Nintendo’s property and I’m sure there would be consistent feedback across the board for any other system also. I’m not a Nintendo fanboy, but I do so love their games and Nintendo has done nothing to deserve this. If anything they could have poked jabs at EA’s Simcity, or some other poorly developed game. Or hell, even Oculus Rift’s decision to sell to Facebook!
I know this didn’t stand in the gaming community and there was an uproar, because one of EA’s COOs tweeted this:
Our apologies to @NintendoAmerica & fan @FrostbiteEngine’s poor attempt at April Fool’s not condoned by EA: unacceptable/stupid
— PeterMoore (@PeterMoore) April 1, 2014
Very poor gamesmanship Frostbite. Very poor. Let’s hope you at least do better next year.

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