Wii U Ports?

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Soundwave said:

No one is going to pay $60 for a game on Wii U when the PS4/720 are vastly better looking and perhaps even better playing (better framerate, cleaner image quality, etc. etc.). 

That's why I don't see UE4 as a big deal on Wii U at all. Nintendo killed their chances with these types of games the moment they chose a GPU to make Japanese housewives happy (oh it's small and has low power cosumption! whooopity doo) rather than thinking about the requirements of future Western third party content. 

Multi-plats like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and AC3 don't even sell on the Wii U, lol at people bringing up Watch Dogs and the like. If the biggest selling third party franchise in the world with a pretty darn good port can't sell on the Wii U, something like Watch Dogs, which is going to likely look noticably worse on Wii U is going to do what exactly? *crickets*. 

Nintendo fans are already complaining about things like Batman Arkham City have frame rate issues and what not (lol), ports of UE4 content are going to be far, far (faaaar) more compromised. 

*Technically* you could probably port Battlefield 4 to the original Wii too. But who cares? Nobody. The game would have to be so compromised from its intended vision that it effectively defeats the purpose.

*sigh*  Still focused on nothing but graphics. 

Think of it this way.  Say a developer is building their game using UE4 and want a Wii U version.  What do you think they'd rather do?  Convert it to UE3 and then port or directly develop it alongside the other editions via UE4?  

As for buying an inferior looking port of a game...do you know how lame that arguemnt is?  Is a Wii U owner going to skip a 3rd party game just because it looks better on another platform they don't have?

And games don't sell... *sigh*  Were you really expecting a game console that just launched to have the same software sales figures as a mature ecosystem of ~70 million consoles already?   You're on a website that tracks video game sales, for God's sake.  Use it.   Low software sales are a common factor of every single console launch in the history of video games.   You think the Wii U is unique in this department?   Better yet, do you think the PS4 and Next X are suddenly going to have the same software sales as the PS3 and Next X when they launch?  

As for your BF4 edit, I suppose playing BF3 on a Radeon HD 4670 is a totally different game than on a Radeon HD7850?   That's all the difference you'll see between PS4 and Wii U.  Same game with reduced texture quality/AA/frame rate.  This isn't the Wii which had a vastly different architecture.