Looking to have some fun this April Fools' Day, the official Twitter account for Frostbite — EA's proprietary video game engine — posted quite a few Tweets poking fun at the Wii U and the system's inability to support the engine. Though no harm was intended, the tweets understandably upset plenty of frustrated Wii U owners.
Facing backlash from consumers, EA has since deleted the tweets. Here's what they originally said:
"Good news, we have finally fixed and optimized our 'netcode'. Uses quantum entanglement for Zero Latency connections. Exclusively on #WiiU."
"Frostbite will power #HalfLife 3, coming out summer 2014! #WiiU exclusive."
"Frostbite now runs on the #WiiU since it is the most powerful Gen4 platform, our renderer is now optimized for Mario and Zelda."
April Fools' Day, as many developers have shown, is all about having a good laugh, but these tweets went too far. Poking fun at fans upset over the publisher's lack of support for their system just seemed a little too over-the-top.
Did Frostbite's initial tweets offend you or was it all in good fun?
