| Vectorferret said: At least from the phrasing (and my own experience writing software) is that a Wii/3DS version of the Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) would basically be a different engine due to the amount of changes they'd need to make. The end result being the entire point of UE3, that you can make most of the game once and get multiple platforms is lost as the Wii/3DS would need all new graphics to be drawn (the most expensive part of game development) and probably other changes as well. |
I highly doubt it ...
The primary difference between the Wii/3DS and platforms that the Unreal engine has been demonstrated to run on is that the Wii/3DS have a fixed functionality graphics pipeline and the other platforms don’t. While this can have an impact on what a game looks like, being that you can disable most of the effects that require programmable shaders in most games, I highly doubt that it would be that difficult to modify these engines to run on these platforms.
Now I could be wrong, but if that is the case I would say the difficulty to port the Unreal 3 engine would be a sign of a very poorly engineered system.
