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No DICE game planned for Wii U yet
EA CEO John Riccitiello's public pledge of support for the Wii U, in front of a video montage of EA properties that included Battlefield, may have imparted the idea that some variant of DICE's shooter would eventually come to Nintendo's tablet-y thing. Battlefield 3 producer Patrick Liu doesn't rule out the possibility in a new interview with Metro, but he does suggest plans for the system have yet to materialize. "No, I think what he [Riccitello] said was that we're looking into what we can do with the Wii U, but there is nothing planned to be honest," Liu said. He added that while DICE has "dabbled" with development kits, "there's no game planned." The game plan for Wii U, then, is to "come up with something that really uses their controls. And until we get that bright idea of what to do with the new controls I don't think there's any point in making another version that's just the same as everyone else." And if you're counting on a Battlefield 3 port, Liu suggests that "probably" won't happen because the Wii U is so "far out," man.
DICE: Medal of Honor Taliban controversy affected reviews
We're not firm believers in the "any press is good press" maxim. Just ask the Xbox 360 and its Red Ring of Death which garnered many a headline -- headlines that reminded would-be consumers why they should hold off on purchasing the console. It would appear EA DICE, the developer behind the multiplayer component of Medal of Honor – the Afghanistan-based shooter in which the Taliban murders American troops – has now too learned this lesson. "The controversy did affect some reviews," DICE's Patrick Liu told Eurogamer. "It stirs a lot of feelings, just the setting. And that does affect people's judgment." While it may have affected some people's judgment, it didn't stop the reboot from moving two million units in just two weeks; not quite Call of Duty numbers, but a healthy start. But back to those reviews: "The game is better than today's reviews are indicating," EA' s Patrick Soderlund previously told Eurogamer. "We're also competing with ourselves," Liu continued, referring to DICE's own Battlefield series. "Obviously we're competing with Call of Duty. It's a very tricky situation to be squeezed in between those giants." He added that competing against Battlefield "can feel awkward sometimes" and, while plans aren't set for an MOH sequel, he replied both "yes and no" when asked if he'd want to work on one. "It would be cool to continue to develop the franchise. At the same time we have a lot of exciting stuff going on in DICE as well that we have been working on in parallel." We're guessing that would be: Battlefield 3, another installment in the Battlefield: Bad Company series, and Mirror's Edge 2. You are working on Mirror's Edge 2, right, DICE?
