Ultimate Team not in FIFA 13 for Wii U

FIFA 13 on Wii U will not feature the Ultimate Team mode.

Game producer, Matt Prior, told NintentoWorldReport that creating a game for a new platform is all about building a solid foundation instead of adding multiple modes.

Prior said: “With new hardware, one of the challenges is – unlike PS3 and 360, where you’ve got a game, it’s finished, it’s done, and you build on top of it next year – we don’t have a game.

“So we have to build that foundation, and just like building anything, you need a solid foundation that’s stable on which to build.

“We have to take a point in time when [the game’s] stable and then bring it over and then all the work we’re building on top of it, so in terms of where this is at, it’s not [FIFA] 12, because there’s a lot of enhancements from 12, it’s not 13 – it’s kind of somewhere in between at a core level.”

Prior went on to explain why Ultimate Team didn’t make the cut.

He added: “We wanted to make sure we got the most popular feature in 360 and PS3. Either online or offline, the most popular feature in it is an online mode called Online Seasons, so that’s in the Wii U [version].

“Some of the more advanced [modes] that took many years to kind of come onto 360 and PS3, things like Ultimate Team, they aren’t on it at launch, but the biggest one in terms of popularity is.”

EA recently released screenshots for FIFA 13 on Wii U, demonstrating different uses for the GamePad. Check them out here.