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DKII said:
These guys make money by selling middleware because it's too expensive for each company to make their own engine. That business model just doesn't exist on the Wii.

 DKII has summed it up in a mere two sentences. Epic doesn't like the Wii because they aren't making any money off of it. Game after game on 360 and PS3 use the Unreal 3 engine, no games on the Wii are using their engine thus they see no money from the Wii. Sour Grapes, plain and simple.



Even if they are not making games, they shouldn't ignore a very smart business move they could do on the Wii: Developing a proper engine and license it. A lot.



First of all, epic is a crappy company. UT games suck ass compared to games like counter strike, Half-Life, COD4. GoW the most dissapointing game ever, too short, should have costed 5$.

How can he talk like that about a company when his company is one of the worst out there?



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all of you are speaking like Epic has unlimited people and resources to develop as many engines as they want. They decided to concentrate on the PS360...great.

Most of the top 3rd party developers will do so as PC/PS360 software sales will always trample wii software sales plus you get more freedom when it comes to developing games. If Epic was a smaller studio, less resourceful I'm sure they would embrace the wii like it was their own mother.

I agree that maybe its not the best business decision to badmouth wii like this...but I respect the guy for doing it. Means he actually says whats on his mind and not just what will make him the most money...which is a great characteristic to have.

In any case, Wii continues to spread like a plague(i like that better than the virus analogy...lol)...Unreal Engine continues to be the most used engine and Gears of War 2 is still one of the most anticipated games of 2008. Life continues as normal...

 

 

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What's ironic is a 3rd party developer is already developing Unreal Engine 3 for Wii with Epics blessing.



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superchunk said:
yeah, right.

So when Wii has near 100m (2009/2010) and are nearing 60% market share. Epic will choose PS360/PC only. hahaha. Not unless they are getting big kicks from MSony.

Does anyone really think the casuals fueling the Wii's growth, you know the ones that are buying it solely for Wii Sports or Wii Fit or Wii Cheerleading or whatever are suddenly going to start buying games like Gears of War?  At the end of the day the hardcore gamers on Wii will very likely never even come close to matching that of the PS3/360/PC and those are the gamers that Epic is targeting.

Add to that the fact that Epic is already making money off those systems and finds them extremely lucrative especially with licensing of their game engine to many developers on those platforms.  It would be the same as basically saying that Blizzard will be forced to make Wii games because of the Wii's future installed base, even though they're already doing very well with their current platform.



@disolitude: What so funny, kid? Its my opinion, just like urs count, mine does as well.

Too bad your fanboyism cant let you stand others opinions.



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i like how now that epic has come out and said the wii is trash, now all the wii fanboys decide they hate epic. what a coincidence.



BCNR34 said:
i like how now that epic has come out and said the wii is trash, now all the wii fanboys decide they hate epic. what a coincidence.

 It's also possible people have 'hated' them for a long time.  Or bought update after update to a great game, only to be disappointed.  Or know that Epic could do better, but choose to rush a product out (UT2k3) instead of waiting till its ready for mass release (2k4).

 There are more reasons than this to be disappointed with Epic.



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