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Nintendo - Wii U Ports? - View Post

Soundwave on 02 April 2013
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Viper1 said:
Soundwave said:

It's not an engine designed to grow rainbows and butterflys, it's an engine designed by Epic to push the highest fidelity visuals and take advantage of modern GPU architectures. 

And whether you like it not, the Wii U has a modern GPU inside.

But you're still stuck on graphics alone and again ignoring the development pipeline.

You do realize that UE4 is going to support HTML 5 meaning even web browsers can run UE4 games, don't you?    Surely you aren't about to tell me that web broswers are more powerful than Wi U.   Oh, guess what else supports HTML 5 now?  Wii U.

Oh yeah, about those software sales.   I'm sure Ubisoft learned their lesson with ACIII on Wii U.  They'll never announce ACIV for Wii U now....right?

I think I'm done here.  It's obvious I'm not going to get through to you.  I get your point.  You think the ROI won't be there.  Though I've done nothing but explain to you how the ROI will be there even with low sales.  I get it.  You're set in what you want to believe regardless of the reality.   You have limited knowledge of what a game engine is and what it does.   You have limited knowledge of UE4 itself beyond it's high fidelity graphics for modern GPU architectures.

 

My apologies for sounding so nasty but I'm really getting tired of seeing misinformation on this site and when I correct it, no one wants to actually consider what I'm saying and only wants to stay in their closed world.  


By "modern GPU" I mean a GPU that actually performs like even a $100 cheapo graphics card you can go buy off the shelf at your local Best Buy here in the year 2013 (or heck even 2011). 

I don't mean "modern" by Nintendo's standards, I mean modern in terms of what actually constitutes "modern performance" that a development house would expect for today. 

The Wii U GPU is easily outclassed by even a cheapo AMD 7750 GPU. 

An engine is an engine, ok great. Why not put UE4 on 3DS too? I'm talking about reality, which includes market realities and technical realities. Not dream hypotheticals. Assassin's Creed IV is one game, for every one ACIV you know very well there are likely to be 4 or 5 that developers don't even bother with on Wii U (like ahem, where's Battlefield 4? Madden 25? Grand Theft Auto V? Star Wars 1313?).

Wii U owners want original content anyway, I get the feeling most of the people crying loudest about UE4 not being on Wii U wouldn't even buy those games on Wii U. They'd buy them on their PS4/720 like everyone else (after all when it's your actual hard earned $60 you want the real deal, not the diet version), or not buy them at all. It's just a box to check for silly internet arguements with Sony/MS fans.