Wii U Ports?

[Viper1]

VGKing said:

Viper1 said:

VGKing said:
Basically porting an UE4 game to the Wii U will take too much time/work/money that it won't be worth it. They're better off using UE3.

In other words, you didn't read anything in this thread other than the first post and the one you quoted below and you aren't familiar with how game engines work.

 

Anyone else?

No, I didn't read EVERY SINGLE COMMENT in this thread. Was that a requirement? 

No, I'm not a tech expert and I don't know exactly how game engines work. But I don't need to. Wii U won't get many(if any) UE4 games. It's already not getting UE3 games like some had said so once the industry makes that transistion into UE4, ports will be even more rare. Wii U as it will be in the position as the original Wii was. 

The only way I see developers taking their time/effort/money to  scale their game down to work on Wii U, is if the Wii U suddenly starts selling like hotcakes. This goes for all games, not just UE4.

This is where it would help to read the whole thread.

The Wii used a fixed function GPu and s single core CPU.  That meant that porting games and game engines was a royal pain in the ass.    But the Wii U has the same architecture as the PS3/PS4/X360 and Next X.   Multiple cores and programmable shaders.  All modern game engines are based on those 2 facets.   And with UE4 being able to scale games in-engine, ports would be very simple making a ROI very likely even with low sales.