An EA employee has tweeted some fairly pointed comments about the Wii U, only days after his company confirmed that it had no games planned for Nintendo's console.

In a series of since-deleted tweets, EA senior software engineer Bob Summerwill was fairly undiplomatic towards the young device.

"The Wii U is crap,” Summerwill began.

“Less powerful than an XBOX360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet. Nintendo are walking dead at this point," he said.

"Nintendo are operating like it's 1990. They should have 'done a Sega' and offered Mario/Zelda as PS4/Durango exclusives... Instead they make this awful console... Just stop it! Just make great games."

Then, just in case there was any doubt remaining: “It is an utterly intentional decision to focus our resources on markets which actually matter… like mobile and Gen4.”

The Wii U is undoubtedly struggling. Third-party developers are avoiding it, it isn't getting Frostbite 3 or Unreal Engine 4 support, and its recent sales figures have been atrocious.

Last month, analyst Michael Pachter said low next-gen console prices would "destroy" the Wii U, and Nintendo opted out of holding an E3 press conference for the first time since 1995.