zarx said:
Navane said:
freebs2 said:
Well the samaritan demo did run on UE3, the WiiU will support Cryengine3 and Frostbite engine 2 so it will still run great graphics. |
You make a great point. It's possible that we'll still see some great graphics outta the Wii-U with those engines in mind. We just might not see the uber high-end UE4 graphics.
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graphics aren't the only thing that UE4 improves tho, most of the improvements are on the tools side bringing it up to spec with CE3 for things like live editing and fully realtime lighting which makes game development easier and faster plus features like new intergrated physics and destruction tech which makes UE4 important. Especially for cross platform games. If the Wii U doesn't support UE4 it will mean a lot of multiplatform games won't make it to he Wii U as they would have to switch to a seperate engine for Wii U, something that most devs won't want to do. Most devs will want to use the engine with the vastly superior tools to make their games.
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That's completely true but are you sure UE4 will be the completely dominant engine for next-generation consoles? You seem to know this kind of stuff much better than me so I'm genuinely curious.
Back in 2005/2006 the UE3 was the only viable option (I guess) for developers to have an high-end graphics engine, unless they wanted to develop it internally. The only other option was the IdTech 4, which wasn't nearly as good.
Now, it seems to me, there is more competition thanks for Cryengine 3, IdTech 5 and the likes, also it seems to me more publishers are starting to develop their own engine, like Frostbite for EA, Kojima engine for Konami, MT framework 2 for Capcom, etc.etc.
