| Joelcool7 said: Well Epic is always talking about how their games need to always push their latest engine. With the Samaritan demo it is apparent that Epic will likely pass over WiiU unless by some miracle it has the graphical power to handle the new engine which it likely won't. Sad that Epic is always so focused on raw power rather then just making great games. I mean their games are great but really I am sure if they put the effort they do on graphics into game play we would see even better games. |
I think people are greatly over-estimating what the minimum requirements of the Unreal 4 Engine will be ... I could be wrong but I suspect that, much like the Tech 5 engine, the Unreal 4 engine will be designed to run on the PS3 and XBox 360 with the additional processing power of higher end systems used to enhance visuals.
For a company like Epic today, they're probably much more motivated to create a game engine that scales to run on everything from a smart-phone/tablet to a high end gaming PC because that is what the publishers want. We're in an era of videogame developement where third party publishers will want games ported to as many platforms as possible to compensate for high development costs by ensuring that anyone who wants to play a game has it available for a platform they own.
The Wii U may not be the most powerful system that the Unreal 4 engine will run on but I will bet almost any value that it will officially be supported by Epic as a platform for the Unreal 4 engine.
