EA Backtracks; Is Actually Developing For Wii U

<p>You may remember that we recently posted a news story that looked at the story that Electronic Arts had confirmed that they had nothing in development for Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s next generation console&comma; the Wii U&period; The story&comma; we said&comma; could be the &&num;8216&semi;final nail in the coffin&&num;8217&semi; for the console which is struggling to shift even a modest amount of units around the world as it&&num;8217&semi;s rivals&comma; the PS4 and Xbox One&comma; get forever closer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; in less than a week&comma; EA have backtracked and said that they are actually developing games for the Wii U&comma; almost ignoring the quote they gave previously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked about which console Blake Jorgensen &lpar;EA&&num;8217&semi;s chief financial officer&rpar;&comma; would go to the top of the podium this generation it was said that&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;You know&comma; I think Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s business was more &lbrack;an&rsqb; extension of their last console&period; I think what the consumer will find is a lot more powerful gameplaty with the new boxes that are comign out&comma; and a lot of excitement&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;ll remain to be seen as to the services associated with those as to how consumers decide which direction they might want to go&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2013&sol;5&sol;21&sol;4351844&sol;ea-developing-wii-u-games">Polygon<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2013&sol;05&sol;rewind&lowbar;ea&lowbar;is&lowbar;in&lowbar;fact&lowbar;developing&lowbar;games&lowbar;for&lowbar;the&lowbar;wii&lowbar;u">Nintendo Life<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;