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Zero999 on 26 May 2013
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goopy20 said:
snowdog said:
Developers beliefs and opinions count for nothing. It's publishers who hold the purse strings, and shareholders and investors who have major influence on what titles are coming to what platform.

As things currently stand, going by the Nerd-Rage on various forums all over the place, the One is looking like it's going to flop. Hard.

If you were a major shareholder of a publisher would you want your company to ignore a console with a far superior installed userbase and concentrate on supporting two consoles with a ZERO installed userbase that are going to be considerably more expensive..? After 3D Mario and Mario Kart 8 boost sales even further..?

I'm telling you, Sony and Microsoft will be lucky to sell over 1.5m units each this year, and now Nerd-Rage is in full swing the One might not even do half that unless Microsoft backtrack like mental.

The thing with any game engine is that it's just a tool that needs to be pushed by hardware. If Epic wanted to, they could already build the Unreal 8 engine, designed to run pixar like processing effect, 20xAA and real time raytracing. However it's useless because the hardware isn't around to run such things yet. The UET4 is totally useless for current gen consoles as it's designed and optimized around the added processing power of next gen hardware, which allows them to do things that are not possible on current gen consoles.  

So when Epic says UET4 won't be coming to the Wii U, it simply means the hardware can't take advantage of the new next gen features that sets it apart from their current gen UET3. Going by your logic UET4 should also be coming to the ps3/ 360 since Epic would be ignoring a 150m installbase. It won't though because it's called a next-gen engine for a reason. Now off course you can send them an email where you explain to them that there is secret sauce in the Wii U that they don't know about, but as of now Epic believes UET4 is not ment to run on the Wii U without setting it on fire.

And yes, publishers decide whether or not a game, that runs on UET4 on ps4/ Xone, will also come to the Wii U (and ps3/360). But as Epic already stated, they will run on UET3. Not because they want to bully Nintendo, but because it probably looks and runs better that way. 

so that's why weaker than ps360 tablets are getting a UE 4 version? the wii u is a good leap above ps360, not only on raw power but modern architeture too. it will run the 8th gen engines.