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

hinch on 29 March 2013

I can't say I'm surprised.

Still.. That's harsh :/



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Otakumegane on 29 March 2013
BenVTrigger said:
Square Enix
Ubisoft
Activision
2K

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


That one worries me.



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walsufnir on 29 March 2013

Only additional proof that Nintendo targets other gamers and they are not really intentionally in any competition with ps4nextbox. Doesn't mean that there will be no good games ahead.



Osc89 on 29 March 2013

Shame he had to be so harsh, but it makes sense. If you want to sell a next-gen engine right now, you would want to distance yourself from the Wii U, even if that means mocking it.

Hopefully they come back to it in a year or so.



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Otakumegane on 29 March 2013
KungKras said:
JakDaSnack said:

What game on a Nintendo platform, that launched side by side with other versions (NOT CoD BLOPS2) and wasn't gimped in any way didn't sell well? Soul Calibur 2 on GC outsold the PS2 version. CoD 3 on Wii, despite being gimped outsold the PS3 version. People learned their lession about CoD on Wii after that though...

Link sold that one.



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hunter_alien on 29 March 2013
KungKras said:
JakDaSnack said:
KungKras said:
JakDaSnack said:
Birimbau said:

Nindendo fans, good luck with Nintendo exclusives only again.


Is there any other reason to buy Nintendo Consoles?  

If Nintendo gets 3rd party games they don't sell and all of the haters laugh and say that the game is on every other platform.

if Nintendo doesn't get 3rd party games, nothing changes and haters laugh and say that the game is not on the Nintendo platform.

It's the exact same cycle. 

Except for when games do sell like Epic Mickey 1 or Goldeneye or Resident Evil 4.

Epic Mickey was an exclusive, Goldeneye was made by Rare and was an exclusive, and Resident Evil 4 was originally an exclusive but later ported to the ps2.  I guessed you missed the part I bolded, if it's an exclusive then sure, it might sell pretty well, but if it's launched alongside everything else, the nintendo version rarely sells well.

What game on a Nintendo platform, that launched side by side with other versions (NOT CoD BLOPS2) and wasn't gimped in any way didn't sell well? Soul Calibur 2 on GC outsold the PS2 version. CoD 3 on Wii, despite being gimped outsold the PS3 version. People learned their lession about CoD on Wii after that though...


No they didnt... they simply accepeted that the Wii version will never have the AAA online component that is necesarry for CoD...

 

OT: why are people even surprised about this announcement? I mean the WiiU is an underpowered and underperforming system. If Nintendo doesnt get their act together fast, not even the ocasioanl japanese support will be enough for them #DQ10willbombontheU.



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Fusioncode on 29 March 2013

At least they still have Ubisoft, for now anyways.



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Salnax on 29 March 2013

Well, that makes me a wee bit upset with Epic. If only there were some karmic retribution.

(Notices that their latest Gears of War game had a fraction of the opening of their previous game.)

Ahh!

In all seriousness though, this is very bad news, and seems almost malicious considering how scalability was said to be a major goal of Unreal Engine 4. Especially because the Wii U is not THAT much weaker than the PS4. I mean, the Wii to Wii U jump was bigger than the PS3 to PS4 jump (roughly 20 or 25 times more RAM vs. 16 times more RAM).

Well, when the "real" 8th gen comes out and consoles begin at $500, we'll see how excited the public is for them then.



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UltimateUnknown on 29 March 2013

Oh man, Nintendo was getting slapped around as of late by consumers with poor sales, and then Epic had to come and punch them right in the testicles with no UE4 support.



 

ghost_of_fazz on 29 March 2013

Well, considering that the UE4 demo on the PS4 looks subpar, this is no surprise. UE4 on Wii U would look like UE3, even if it's more powerful than the 360/PS3.