Well that's the case for every game with online. In order to keep a good frame rate with no lag, you kind of half to dumb down the graphics for online. Look at Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4.
But I do agree, in order to develop for the Wii you are going to have to build a graphics engine from the ground up in order for the game to stand up.
I and Viper will tell you this though. We are 100% sure that Unreal Engine 3 is coming specifically for the Wii. When? We do not know, but it is in developing...but not by Epic Games, but by an unnamed licenscee.
A while back Epic's CEO Mark Rein said, "I know one of our licensee who's giving it a shot," Rein said. "It's their own port, in the same way Ubisoft brought Unreal Engine 2 to the Wii." There's so many things we can do and are already doing, to improve our engine, on the platforms we're aiming it at, that going back and working on that [for Wii] just doesn't make sense," Rein added. "The engine is getting optimised and we're improving it all the time."
Currently enjoying: Monster Hunter Tri.
