Topic: Wii U Enhanced Graphics Engine

Just read this article about an enhanced version of cryengine3 for Wii U

Cannot wait to see what this game will look like

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Sonic-Boom-Required-An-Enhan...

This doesn't surprise me too much. Both because saying Wii U is underpowered is a thing stupid people say, and also because what they've shown of Sonic Boom is definitive proof of Wii U's power (which itself is not surprising considering how the HD Sonic games have often been some of the best looking titles around).

This piece of news just made EA looked like a spoilt kid throwing tantrums

I was expecting some graphical improvement.

Adding the ability to have split-screen doesn't seem impressive. The engine should have been able to do that from the get-go.

EA is actually one of the few companies that have publicly stated, that they have their newest game engine(Frostbite) running on Wii U, so I wouldn't say EA is "hating". Even though Ubisoft has published alot of titles on Wii U, they haven't stated whether their new engine is running on Wii U. Since AC: Unity won't be on Wii U, I'm guessing not, even though there's still more to it than having the said engine, running.

Do you have a news source on this? All I've heard was that their internal Frostbite 2 tests wasn't good enough so Wii U wouldn't be supported by Frostbite 3. And then there was the recent April 1st jokes from the Frostbite development, ridiculing the Wii U.

Split screen is very taxing why do you think it all but disappeared the last generation? The main reason I have a Nintendo console is due to their commitment to split screen and local games.

With this generations focus on 1080p 60FPS expect to see a lot less split screen games on non Nintendo consoles (Indies excluded ofc).

AFAIK EA mocked the Wii U for not being able to run Frosbite 3 due to hardware limitations yadi yadi yada which we know for a fact, is BS. I never remembered them publicly stating that the Wii U can run Frostbite 3.

My apologies... EA said that Wii U can technically run the newset Frostbite, but it isn't part of their priorities, as of last summer. Also, since Google is spammed with the April Fool's "joke", it's making it kind of hard to find info...

Wonderful article. I had a good laugh reading the sony fanboys comments there

Isn't the Frostbite issue actually a non-issue, since the current products from DICE would never pass Nintendo's Lot Check?

So much feels.

In Battlefield 4's case, yes. That game would have never launched on a Nintendo platform, even if EA wanted it to.

And why is that?

The kind of bugs and the amount of them that BF4 had on launch would never pass the Lot Check.

And even then, they're still not pulling off 1080p 60 FPS.

Pretty much. The focus this gen isn't on 1080p 60fps. The focus is on making the game look really good when you watch gameplay footage on youtube. Which means single player, 30fps, 720p with all of the effects

Right on the money there... in fact, the entire games revolve around how they look in Youtube. Gameplay is passé.

Do PS4 and Xbox One games actually have some gameplay elements to them?

@WaveBoy Yeah, whenever I went to get into something on the PS3 I always thought to myself ↓