epic games wont ever make games for the wii

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jake_the_fake1 on 20 April 2008

the man's got a point, cuz that's what happened to me and one of my friends.

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Soriku said:

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you honestly think their gonna lose money with GEOW 2 coming up??

No. I wasn't talking about GeoW2 though :3 They'll make money off of that. I meant their...other games. They can't make HD game after HD game forever you know.

Why? Gears of War only cost them $10 million to make. They can do their HD games very cheaply by virtue of owning UE3.

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--OkeyDokey-- on 20 April 2008

Seems fair to me. Wii isn't really the kind of console for online/graphics intensive games.

I'd rather they continue to make games for PC/ps3/360. What he's saying is fine. The way he says it makes him sound like a complete knob though.

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Sherlock99 said:

http://www.megatonik.com/2008/04/20/mike-capps-says-epic-games-wont-ever-make-a-game-for-the-wii-we-go-forward-not-back/

Epic Games' president, Mike Capps, reiterated what Epic has previously said in an interview with IGN, stating that Epic won't ever be developing games for the Wii. It's not about the success of the platform to him, but what can be done on it. When asked whether there would ever be a time when Epic would be forced to give in and create a game for the Wii, Capps said, "no, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech."

As for why he believes the Wii has become so popular, he says it's like a virus that just keeps spreading:

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a large number of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it.

If they didn't want to go backwards, why did they bother making games on consoles, and not just exclusively on the PC?

And the Wii is a virus! Holy crap.

And also anecdotal evidence for the win...

But if they don't want to make Wii games, that's ok. More power to them.

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twilit on 20 April 2008

Seriously. Epic needs to get real. All developers should at least try to develope for the Wii IMO as with every other console.

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Kyros on 20 April 2008

Pretty unsurprising. I mean Epic is known for making the visually most opulent best looking games. They really have no place on the Wii.

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Soriku said:

darthdevidem01 said:
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you honestly think their gonna lose money with GEOW 2 coming up??

No. I wasn't talking about GeoW2 though :3 They'll make money off of that. I meant their...other games. They can't make HD game after HD game forever you know.

Sure they can. When your epic and originality and innovation means nothing to you and your stupid fans continually want to buy the same old crap all the fucking time then you can pretty much make the same game every single time with a new name and people will buy it. Must be quite a luxury.

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Kyros said:
Pretty unsurprising. I mean Epic is known for making the visually most opulent best looking games. They really have no place on the Wii.

Well by that logic they have no place on the PS3 or 360 as well and should be sticking to high end PC's.