{"id":62998,"date":"2014-04-02T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62998"},"modified":"2014-04-02T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:56:42","slug":"ea-mocks-wii-u-then-apologises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62998-ea-mocks-wii-u-then-apologises","title":{"rendered":"EA mocks Wii U then apologises"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April Fool’s Day 2014, EA’s official Frostbite Twitter account (@FrostbiteEngine) took to mocking the poor little Wii U.<\/p>\n

The tweets have since been removed, but not before being recorded for posterity:<\/p>\n

Frostbite now runs on the #WiiU since it is the most powerful Gen4 platform, our renderer is now optimized for Mario and Zelda. – @FrostbiteEngine, 1 April 2014.<\/p>\n

Frostbite will power #HalfLife3, coming out summer 2014! #WiiU exclusive. – @FrostbiteEngine, 1 April 2014.<\/p>\n

Good news, we have finally fixed and optimized our \u2018netcode\u2019. Uses quantum entanglement for Zero Latency connections. Exclusively on #WiiU. – @FrostbiteEngine, 1 April 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nintendo fans didn’t take to kindly to this, and as the backlash gained momentum, the tweets were removed.<\/p>\n

EA executive Peter Moore has publicly apologised for the bungle:<\/p>\n

“Our apologies to partners @NintendoAmerica & fan @FrostbiteEngine ‘s poor attempt at April Fools not condoned by EA: unacceptable\/ stupid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

EA and Nintendo haven’t had much of a working relationship lately, since back in May 2013 EA coldly announced they were no longer developing games for the platform<\/a> due to its poor sales numbers.<\/p>\n

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EA’s Frostbite Engine social media team thought it would be funny to mock the poor little Wii U. They were wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":53639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,813,10007,5170,1399],"class_list":["post-62998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-electronic-arts","tag-frostbite","tag-peter-moore","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62998","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}