Epic doesn’t plan on bringing Unreal Engine 4 to Wii U, but ports are possible

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zarx said:

Which is why I don't understand why Epic aren't supporting it themselves at least officially. I assume there is some technical or I guess business reason why they don't. The fancy new renderer is designed for 1TFLOP+ DX11 class hardware for it's bells and whistles but I am pretty sure they said they have a striped down version (No realtime voxel bassed Global Illumination with a full deffered pipeline I would imagine) for older less capable hardware like phones, I would have thought they would port over to the Wii U even if it was just to have that checkbox for the engine. But for some reason Epic seem to be perfectly happy to push UE3 for Wii U it remains to be seen if it's a technical limitation (I doubt, but without knowing all the details it's hard to tell) or just that Epic just don't consider it worth the time (little or no demand from licensees for Wii U support).

It could be something close to what Smilebeast, albeit less dramatic.

Simply put, Epic wants/needs to sell their new engine and to do that, they need to show what their new engine can do and powerful machines that allow them do show it. The best platforms for that are Microsoft and Sony's new consoles, and they need them to be as powerful as possible. How? Well, for instance they have said numerous times what kind of hardware they want (specially with RAM), but so far the leaked specs suggest that neither PS4 nor the nextbox will something like a GTX 680.

So they go a little further and say that they won't support WiiU with UE4, that for the power it has UE3 is still good. This is a message to Sony/Microsoft. It's a last try to force them to beef up their machines because Epic knows that they want to be able to say "we can run UE4".

I don't know how it will end, but if WiiU does well, I wouldn't be surprised if Epic announced UE4 for it about 1 year after its launch, once the other consoles have their specs confirmed.