Peter Moore, Electronic Arts new Chief Operating Officer has revealed what his development team find most interesting with Wii U. I’ll give you a hint, it has something to do with the second screen.
You recently reassured the market that you are fully onboard the Wii U with your key franchises. What are your developers finding most exciting about the Wii U?
They’re still working with the software development kits, Jason. And as always happens, Nintendo continues to deliver updates to the SDK, and we find cool and interesting things there. I think the broader element is the idea of a second screen, which is something that many of us do now. I don’t know about you, but watching TV I find myself either sitting with my laptop doing emails or my iPad browsing the web while the TV is going on in front of me. I think I’m watching it, depending on what it is. Obviously if it’s a sports event, then I’m giving it my full attention, but anything else and it’s probably only getting 40 per cent of my attention and I’m pretending to my wife that I’m watching TV with her. But the second screen mentality, it’s not only doing something different, but also every now and then you are watching TV and have a question and it’s fascinating now to do enquiries and find out information about something that you are watching on the main screen using your second screen. I think the concept of a second screen that it being used in tandem and in parallel to what is going on the big screen is fascinating for us as gamers, we think that is a big deal. A lot of our games are built for calling plays or strategies that you can’t see on the big screen.
NINTENDO FTW.. every time we think they’re starting to suck they come up with something amazing <3
A true fan realizes that they never suck.
I somewhat disagree. Although saying they suck might be going too far, a good fan should still question themselves so they aren’t biased fanboys. Lately, I’ve been playing mostly GC games, because Nintendo has hit a rough spot. But with all the games coming this holiday, I think that will turn around.
Couldn’t agree with Hocotatium more. You need to be somewhat skeptical or you love the brand just for the brand, not because Nintendo does things worth love.
Mostly because the Gamecube wasn’t overrun with shovelware.
I hope Nintendo goes back to having almost no shovelware at all.
Seriously. They need to kick a lot of those “developers” for the Wii to the curb, or at least screen the games those “developers” intend to sell on the Wii U for quality assurance to make sure we don’t get anymore oh that 3rd string nonsense they passed as games ¬_¬
You as a hardcore gamer is being biased. You forget that the Wii was mostly targeted at casual gamers and families. Grandma’s not gonna be playing Call of Duty chief.
Can you imagine?
“come here dearie, grandma just wants to throw a grenade at you”
It’s not that Nintendo stopped making good games or anything. The 3rd parties are the one that abandoned them.
I agree with with, but if you’re having trouble playing your Wii right now, I’d suggest checking out some games that came out for it like Muramasa the Demon Blade, Fragile Dreams, Metroid Other M, maybe you never played Twilight Princess. The Runde Factory games alone will give you a ton of gameplay. Try going to gamestop.com and browse the games for it. If you find one interesting enough, then go to youtube and search for a review or something. The same for the DS, which has a gigantic library.
Any fan that wasn’t brainwashed by them realizes they have a lot of potential but they’re not using any of it and they suck.
Now that what I was thinking as well.
Now we just need to get Square Enix to fully support the Wii U so that Kingdom Hearts 3 can either be exclusive for it or be on it as well as PS3/4
I’d rather see something a little more compelling than that from Square Enix. Maybe a new Chrono game.
Before they do that, they would need to release the first two games on either the 3DS or Wii U. Maybe they’ll have an HD stamp at launch or something.
EA seems to like the WiiU too much.
maybe a bit TOO much.
You are doing it wrong
elaborate.
Can anyone smell Wii U TV and Movie Stream, although highly unlikely since there’s already a TV in the first place.
I can see parnerships with companies like Timewarner Cable and DirectTV. You can use the Wii U as a receiving unit and if you have a hard drive, you can record as many programs as you want. Plus, you could have one channel on the TV and a second channel on the controller just to check out what else you could watch before changing channels. They would need some sort of add-on for the antenna though. I think Iwata hinted at something like that during E3.
Yea, your right. Very nice ideas that I haven’t heard of. I’m wondering as well if there would be apps on the controller since nintendo is starting to embrace more socially. Not like Apple’s apps though
EA go head a give yourself to Nintendo LOL wonder if they did PS360 gamer will be EXPLODING.
That would be awesome, because most of my friends are PS360 players. I would like to see their “no more EA” faces
EA has a boner for Wii U, old news.
Wow… I read this article and commented on it, on my iPod, while half-watching a movie.
I’m not surprised that Peter Moore is very fond of the Wii U since he enjoyed the Dreamcast durring the days he was president of Sega of America. And The Dreamcast and Wii U have a ton in common, mostly because they both have screens on their controllers.
Every time I see that screen on the Wii U remote I have to pause and stare at how beutiful it looks.
lol? Its rubbish 480p though…
actually it has 1080p they redone the quality
It’s actually 854×480, but that is not by any a bad thing. Even if they were to put 1080p on that screen, it would pretty crappy compared to your 1080p TV because of the size of the screens. It would also mean an expensive resource. It’s like phones claiming to record and reproduce videos in 1080p; they still don’t compare to a big screen due to size.
Thats interesting, they gave you a dev kit to keep hey?
@jake
Give me the link that says the Wii U screen on the controller is capable of 1080p.
Even if it were or weren’t 1080p, why does it matter?
now wait a second there peter… how are you going to use your laptop or ipad, while watching TV, while also holding the wiiu remote? DUN DUN DUUUN. lol
By not being lazy, duh.
By being peter f***ing moore, thats how.
Who knows, we’ll be playing their sports games on the Wii U, but they’re all the same anyways with updated features such as little gameplay adjustments, and graphical improvements, et cetera. I just hope the Wii U gets proper support from the developers this time around.
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Okay Peter we like your opinion and everything but cough up what your going to put on the system already! I’m anxiously waiting announcements for Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Assassin’s Creed, Army of Two, Dante’s Inferno, etc.
Great news, but isn’t this like the 5th time we hear that Peter Moore jizzed about the Wii U? :P
Good post, compliments for you and thankyou for posting it.
Nintendo: The lantern
Sony& XBOX: in the bandwagon