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

[routsounmanman]

jake_the_fake1 said:

routsounmanman said:
I certainly agree that Epic will be just fine without the Wii and that the Wii shouldn't be their primary target, but they are certainly losing a TON of money. Imagine if they'd built a ground-up impressive Wii engine and licensed to all big third parties...

it took them many years to develop UE3, and you want them just to make wii version just like that?

seems rathe unresonable doesn't it?

In anycase, I rather Epic spend their time and resources improving their UE3 for the PS3/360/PC, than waist resources and time making a wii engine that will never look as good as their PS3/360/PC UE3 engine counterpart.

Developing a new engine that'd push the Wii would cost far less than UE3; HD costs apply to engines MOST OF ALL. Also, they'd be playing in an open field on the Wii with practically no competition. You can make more money if you have 10 buyers and no competition than having 50 buyers and tons of it ( obviously the buyers are the licensees ).