Ars Technica response to Epic's Wii is a Virus comments

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superchunk said:

d21lewis said:
Like the post said "Epic is in the Unreal 3 buisness".

Why would they endorse a console that can't buy what they're selling? If I was a Fried Chicken dealer, I'd put down McDonald's every chance I could. Buisness is buisness. Wanna buy some chicken?

 Agreed. But, that doesn't mean you can't make a great chicken burger.

Epic knows how to make, arguably, great middleware, and since last gen's main middle ware was focused on PS2 hardware there are really none that focus on the commonalities of GC/Wii chipsets. So Epic could use their knowledge to make a Unreal3: Wii Edition that could push the little box to the extreme and possibly making it much much easier to develop a cross platform game for all current gen systems. Instead they are choosing to completely ignore the obviously winning console.

To me they re not looking outside the box and I think they are leaving a lot of money on the table. 

A 3rd party licensee is already developing UE3 for Wii to do exactly that.