Nintendo doesn't need EA, honestly. I'll buy a PS4 and play EA games on there. They've never supported Nintendo before, so why would we expect them to now? As long as Ubisoft continues support for the Wii U I'll be happy, although I'm pretty sure Zombi2 will be multiplatform.
Need vs. want. Wii U as a whole looks a lot worse with one of the largest publishers not supporting it. That, in turn, affects consumer perception. The dominoes will just keep falling. EA has supported Nintendo before. Even when Nintendo launched a cartridge based system in a time when the industry moved to optical media, EA supported Nintendo. Madden has been on Nintendo home consoles for over 20 years. This is the first time they've decided to actively drop support.
And I wonder if you'd be saying the same about Ubisoft if they followed EA's lead.
I think that it is official to call EA the "asshole" of the gaming industry.
We want EA to tell the truth about Frostbite 3, but we'd be mad either way, just for a different reason. "Test results weren't promising" or "We just don't fucking feel like it." Take your pick. Either way, it's not happening. The line they went with is PR 101. It's vague, sounds circumstantial (it shifts the responsibility away from EA without specifically blaming Nintendo), and makes it look like EA put some effort ("We tried. Whomp, whomp.")
There's plenty of reason to hate on EA. However, not supporting a struggling platform is at least reasonable, especially when they've been cutting cost everywhere. One could argue that Wii U would be performing better if third parties supported it more, but Nintendo has done a poor job of supporting it in general themselves. There's enough blame to go around on both sides. Seeing as this is Nintendo's console, it's still their responsibility to fix it.
Of course, there's the whole Origin thing even if it's only hearsay. Can anyone honestly say they wouldn't have been pissed if they were EA? Childish, but understandable.
It's quite obvious who is the abusive side in third-parties/Nintendo relationship.
Role reversal? It wasn't okay when Nintendo was abusive toward third parties, but how many Nintendo fans see it that way? You reap what you sow. Should Nintendo under a different president for over a decade have to continually pay for past mistakes? Maybe, maybe not. Nintendo has to prove that supporting Wii U is worth the effort to support. How they do that is a completely different discussion.