The sequel to the critically acclaimed Beyond Good and Evil has been in the making for a good number of years, but its chances of appearing on the Wii U has slipped somewhat.  Ubisoft’s game designer Michael Ancel admitted in a recent interview that although developing for current-gen platforms would be “possible”, in the long-run it would be “painful”. Although many consider the Wii U to be a next-generation console, in terms of its general power, the Wii U appears to have been sidelined – on this occasion – to current-gen.

“I think [on current platforms] Beyond Good & Evil 2 was possible, but it’d be painful. It’s always possible to do anything on any kind of console, but sometimes you need to spend your energy not on the optimizations or things like that. Now that we have the [new] consoles around the corner we’re working on them. We’re trying to see how we can get the power out of those consoles because there are still things we need to understand on those consoles, but yes, Beyond Good & Evil is a project I always have in mind and I hope good things will come for this project very soon.” – Michael Ancel

Source:http://mynintendonews.com/2013/07/02/beyond-good-and-evil-2s-chances-on-wii-u-appear-to-be-slipping/

Wii-U needs this!

I hope they just make a solid game. The first game had great ideas, but poorly executed.

I didn't even know they were actually making this game anymore. I thought it was in development for current gen for ages, but scrapped it. I guess it's moving to ps4/xbox one now.

Not sure if it will ever come out.
I'm also pretty sure that it won't make them any money. It's been in development for too long already and now they seem to be switching consoles ?

What are its chances on any system? I swear this along with Last Guardian and Versus XIII (I mean XV) have been this past generations biggest teases.

        Ancel never frickin mentioned the Wii U. I hate it when MNN does this kind of crap just to get attention and hits.

Erm...where does it mention the Wii U exactly? That is...if the game ever comes out of course!

There would be a power issue if it Beyond Good and Evil 2 came out on current gen platforms. So their could be some issues if the game was being developed on the Wii U because we don't know if it's powerful enough to handle the game. That's what I got from it.

So Wii U can't be compared to GameCube then?