Epic: Our games don't appeal to the Wii's crowd.

[Onyxmeth]

Viper1 said:

Onyxmeth said:

@Viper-A third party licensee is ATTEMPTING to port Unreal Engine 3 to the Wii. You make it seem like it's a sure thing they will succeed in their attempt.

 

Well, it is a sure thing.  The company doing so is already working on the game for it.   Let's not forget that Treyarch managed to get the COD 4 engine to run on Wii just fine.  Can you explain in technical details why the COD 4 engine could be ported well but not UE3?

 

Can you provide links for this? All I can find is the original article from Nov 2007 where Mark Rein says in an interview that an unnamed licensee is bringing the Unreal Engine 3 to the Wii. I can't find anything on Google past that. What's the company's name, and what is their game?

Also I do not know the difference between the COD4 engine and the UE3 engine. I do know Mark Rein said this in regards to the licensee, "It's their own port, in the same way Ubisoft brought Unreal Engine 2 to the Wii [for Red Steel]," he said, noting prior to that response, "I just don't see a big market there to bring this big hulking memory intensive engine over to a much smaller system."

If this were going to be an easy port and/or Epic thought the Wii could handle the engine well, I think they would have just done it themselves. I'm sure some of the aspects of the engine can make it to the Wii, but I don't think the Wii can handle the whole thing at once. But yes, this is coming from someone with no real technical knowledge on the matter, so I could be wrong. Can you back up that this can be done with technical terms?