Viper1 said:
Tachikoma said:
That's where working in the industry would give you more of an insight into things, many of the studios that would potentially use UE4 for games would rather release a non UE game on the platform first, to 'test the waters' for sales, no company is going to go all out and port the engine to release several titles on the same engine without any idea how well even one of those games will perform.
Additionally, studios don't pick one engine and stick with it for all games unless they only make a certain selection of games, and in most cases on their own engine, most non-epic games released using the UE are one offs or major studios milking a series (some harry potter games used UE for example).
but again its down to money, and even if a studio was going to release several games on the WiiU, and had a crystal ball that could see into the future and see a good return on investment for the series, chances are 95%+ that they would use UE3 and *not* UE4.
Your point is that UE4 could be made to run on the WiiU, i don't see the point in arguing this as mark rein has said this himself, my point is that, having over a decades worth of experience working in different studios, i can tell you without any doubt, nobody is going to port UE4 when UE3 would suit them just fine, and nobody is going to port UE4 with a view to use it for more than just one game, because right now the WiiU is a ROI minefield and without that assurance that a large profit could be made, nobody will bite the bullet, which in turn results in lagging third party support and no real end to the situation.
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Well, like you, I'm in the industry...just on the media side of things (several members here have long known this). And I already know of a studio considering UE4 for Wii U. Naturally I can't give any details nor can I be certain they'll even go that route but they certainly aren't just shrugging it off and going with UE3. Certainly that's no validation or proof of anything but it suggests that your 95% figure may be off. Unless I happen to be in good with that 5%.
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That's nice, but i don't see why you couldn't give a developer name, in all the years i have been working in the industry unless the engine was proprietory the NDA never extended to not being able to mention the 3rd party engine it was running on.
Additionally, even if the NDA *had* covers that, the very fact a member of the media knew about it would suggest that the NDA had already been broken - So the only conclusion i can draw from this is that you've either been lied to, or worried that in giving the studio name your claim could easilly be debunked.
