Aielyn on 15 July 2012
| zarx said: except that engine licences are per game not platform, and any game that was also targeting PS360 would use UE3 anyway even if they supported Wii U with UE4. All that not supporting Wii U now would do is prevent any studios making Wii U exclusives (or nextgen multiplat with Wii U SKU) from licensing UE4. And getting UE4 into as many hands as possible is what Epic want, and sooner the better. |
Well, I don't know all of the details of how engine licenses work, but I find it hard to believe that there would be no extra costs for getting support on more than one platform. A quick look reveals that one of the two main license methods involves royalties - for royalty-based licenses, having it available on more platforms is better, so they'd want UE3 because it's available for more platforms.
