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Forums - Gaming - Epic confirms: Unreal Engine 4 is NOT coming to Wii U

TrevDaRev on 29 March 2013

"Hahaha no." - Ice cold.



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AbbathTheGrim on 29 March 2013

Nintendoomination?



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

Barozi on 29 March 2013
pezus said:
osed125 said:

Wait, as far as I know UE 4 can even run on tablets, Epic said the engine was scalable, so Wii U can run UE 4 (just obviously not at the same level as the PS4 and next xbox). 

The reason is not because the Wii U can't run the engine, the reason is that it doesn't make sense financially.

Also, laughing at the question is extremely immature, is sad to see people like him working on the industry.

They probably don't see it as financially viable, just as scaling down to PS360 isn't financially viable. They have UE3 for that.

Yeah I guess Epic won't release tools for WiiU, so if developers want to make a game based on UE4 for WiiU they'd need to make the tools themselves and this would mean increased development costs so they probably won't even bother with that.



Moren on 29 March 2013
pezus said:
"Hahaha no." Rein said, with expert comedic timing. The room erupted with laughter.

His response is bad, but what about the entire room of devs (/journalists too?) laughing with him?

I don't buy that part, I'm not sure I buy the part of Rein laughing either. It is Kotaku, after all.



osed125 on 29 March 2013
ethomaz said:
osed125 said:

Wait, as far as I know UE 4 can even run on tablets, Epic said the engine was scalable, so Wii U can run UE 4 (just obviously not at the same level as the PS4 and next xbox).

The reason is not because the Wii U can't run the engine, the reason is that it doesn't make sense financially.

Also, laughing at the question is extremely immature, is sad to see people like him working on the industry.

"But our goal for Unreal Engine 4 console-wise is next-gen consoles."

No tablet, no old-gen... just next-gen consoles.

They said the engine was scalale. There are games on phones that use UE 3, so I don't see any reason for this one not to be. Epic can do it, they just don't want to throw money in doing it.



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Talal on 29 March 2013
zumnupy10 said:

UE4 not coming to WiiU is no surprise.  We already knew the console specs are close to PS360.

But the whole article is a terrible exercise of journalism from Kotaku IMO.  They could have avoided the ""Hahaha no"


It was an unprofessional response but Kotaku was just quoting so you can't fault them.



BenVTrigger on 29 March 2013

Square Enix
Ubisoft
Activision
2K

These are some of the publishers who have already purchased UE4 licenses. Ouch



ethomaz on 29 March 2013

osed125 said:

They said the engine was scalale. There are games on phones that use UE 3, so I don't see any reason for this one not to be. Epic can do it, they just don't want to throw money in doing it.

I know they can but the focus now (and for one year or two ahead) is the next-gen consoles only... after that the other low dispositives... tablets and smartphones will use the UE3 for sure in the next years.



zumnupy10 on 29 March 2013
pezus said:
zumnupy10 said:

UE4 not coming to WiiU is no surprise.  We already knew the console specs are close to PS360.

But the whole article is a terrible exercise of journalism from Kotaku IMO.  They could have avoided the ""Hahaha no"

But aren't they just reporting what he said? Why is that terrible?

Was the "Hahaha no" part necessary to say WiiU can't run UE4 ?

 I'd expect from a serious gaming website to ignore this. But I know Kotaku isn't that.



radiantshadow92 on 29 March 2013

buuuuurrrrrrn with that next gen statement lol