{"id":54094,"date":"2013-05-17T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54094"},"modified":"2013-05-17T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:51:54","slug":"ea-bailing-on-the-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54094-ea-bailing-on-the-wii-u","title":{"rendered":"EA bailing on the Wii U?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wii U hasn\u2019t had the best support from big-name game publishers since its launch, and Electronic Arts seem to be dropping development for Nintendo\u2019s console.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no games in development for the Wii U currently,&#8221; said EA&#8217;s Jeff Brown. Brown also didn\u2019t say whether the publisher will continue development projects for the console in the future.<\/p>\n<p>EA has also announced that Madden NFL 25 won\u2019t be making an appearance on the Wii U this year, but did say that they have \u201ca strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate opportunities for delivering additional Madden NFL products for Nintendo fans in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch, EA has released four games on the Wii U: Mass Effect 3, Madden NFL 13, FIFA 13, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/ea-has-no-games-in-development-for-nintendos-wii-u-507588994\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More EA news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54072-ea-reveals-moba-game-dawngate.html\">EA reveals MOBA game Dawngate<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/54029-ea-discontinuing-online-passes.html\">EA discontinuing online pass pay scheme<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53681-ea-south-africa-is-closing-down-report.html\">EA South Africa is closing down: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53638-ea-earnings-see-an-increase.html\">EA earnings on the rise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53635-ea-dropping-gun-brand-names-in-games.html\">EA dropping gun brand names in games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA give some grim news to Wii U gamers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":54108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[813,21,10023,73,4808,1399],"class_list":["post-54094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-electronic-arts","tag-headline","tag-jeff-brown","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-wii-u","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54095,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54094\/revisions\/54095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}