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

megaman79 said:
But Cliff Bleszinski was fired, remind me again why UE4 is so important/relevant to next gen., especially considering most major companies are designing their own engines?

Batman Arkham series
Bioshock series
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series
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to name the important multiplatform games based on Unreal Engine.
Obviously you can scratch the EA games, but they will run on Frostbite so those will most likely not arrive on WiiU either.

UE3 and now UE4 are cheap and that's why developers use it. I think licensing UE3 for a game costed about $1m. Hilariously cheap compared to creating your own engine from the ground up.



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Somini said:
A lot of Nintendo fans usually say that third party games don't sell on Nintendo consoles because they're not up to the quality of Nintendo's first party's offerings. So why do people care if third parties won't bring any games to the Wii U!?


if i don't care (and i don't, pc) that doesn't mean the public doesn't



As long as there is MS AND Sony in the console business, Nintendo is simply not going to give a shit about 3rd party games, the business is just not dependable (see gamecube aka 3rd wheel). So Nintendo will passively allow 3rd parties to make unique versions for ninty if they choose, if not, oh well. This is why I root for one of MS or Sony to leave the console business (Sony leaving is more realistic, + i have to be pro American), so that we can get an all out competitive console from ninty.

As somewhat of a compensation, what we'll see from the big N is more of their own multiplats, ie 3DS/Wii U version of games.



megaman79 said:
But Cliff Bleszinski was fired, remind me again why UE4 is so important/relevant to next gen., especially considering most major companies are designing their own engines?


Cliffy B wasn't fired he resigned cause he need it a break and UE4 is important because its the leading engine most third parties will use unless you got the money to make one yourself like the big players Square, Capcom, Konami, EA.

This is a big blow to the WiiU.



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goddamn...

i will leave it at that



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Although sad, this bit of news is not unexpected as all the signs pointed in this direction.

But the way he said it, if true, is despicable.



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well Nintendo really messed up this time, not only WiiU is not revolutionary at all, but it lacks in graphics and games as well...

they knew they would face this with the 3rd parties and yet they chose the hard road



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pezus said:
Cheebee said:
So if the goal for UE4 is next-gen consoles, then that means it won't be coming to PC or mobiles/tablets. Contradicting their earlier 'very scalable' claim. Hm.

It's obviously for PC...that's what most of their tech demos have been running on. They've already got it up and running there though.

Yes I know, hence my point: he's full of it.



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Hopefully Nintendo is working on their real next gen console now, if not they are screwed.