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jake_the_fake1 on 22 April 2008
ToastyJaguar said:
jake_the_fake1 said:
ToastyJaguar said:
Epic can't learn how to make better video games on the Wii. What does truly mastering the Wii mean?

Epic use cutting edge technology which is not found on the Wii, why would they try and master the Wii when they can achieve more in trying to master the PS3 and 360 and make the kind of games they always do. Cutting edge games.

I know games aren't all about graphics, it's all about being fun and using ingenuity...blah blah blah

But Epic is trying to push what is possible in a game. In terms of exploiting the hardware capabilities of powerful games consoles which they can't do on the Wii.

They have already created so much in terms of additions to the U3 engine which the Wii can't handle so if they were to create for the Wii, they would have to go backwards! ( I know one of Epics licensees is trying to port the U3 engine to Wii but it just isn't possible to run it properly due to the Wii's hardware.)

The porting of the engine is not to make games that look like the PS3/360/PC counter parts, it's so that the great dev tools that come with UE3 can also be used on the Wii for ease of development, and that's the real aim.

I'm just going by this

"It's their own port, in the same way Ubisoft brought Unreal Engine 2 to the Wii [for Red Steel]," he said, noting prior to that response, "I just don't see a big market there to bring this big hulking memory intensive engine over to a much smaller system."

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/23/unreal-engine-3-coming-to-wii-but-not-by-epic/

 

And that makes sense to me.

 


 yep, I totally agree with you in that regard



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mesoteto on 22 April 2008

right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money



 

ToastyJaguar on 22 April 2008
mesoteto said:
right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money

 

I can only see Nintendo making big money on the Wii, everyone else looks like their getting scraps.


Rock_on_2008 on 22 April 2008

Epic don't need to humiliate the whole Nintendo community by making such childish remarks that generally gamers already know what the Wii is capable of doing. No need for Epic to just bash up the Wii.



Chadius on 22 April 2008
mesoteto said:
right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money

Roughly, yeah.

 

Epic's business is

1) Make Unreal Engine

2) Sell Unreal Tournament (insert year)

3) Get licensing fees for Unreal Engine

 

This relies on graphics, not social interactions. Not new interfaces.

 

The Wii doesn't concentrate on BESTEREST GFX EVAR. Of course Epic is uninterested in the Wii.

 

The moment someone makes an engine that is built for social interaction and interfaces instead of "pushing the graphics envelope," Epic is in trouble.



There is no such thing as a console war. This is the first step to game design.

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jake_the_fake1 on 22 April 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:
Epic don't need to humiliate the whole Nintendo community by making such childish remarks that generally gamers already know what the Wii is capable of doing. No need for Epic to just bash up the Wii.

 Epic dude didn't bash the wii because he felt like it, the IGN interviewer kept pushing him and well he just gave him his honest opinion on the matter, I honestly think this whole thing was blown out of proportion, but such things are typical with fanboy's.



Viper1 on 22 April 2008
ToastyJaguar said:
mesoteto said:
right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money

 

I can only see Nintendo making big money on the Wii, everyone else looks like their getting scraps.

 Are you on the same sales site as the rest of us?



The rEVOLution is not being televised

MANUELF on 22 April 2008
ToastyJaguar said:
mesoteto said:
right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money

 

I can only see Nintendo making big money on the Wii, everyone else looks like their getting scraps.

 

O RLY?

KohlyKohl on 22 April 2008

5 Months later and still no promised Linux version of Unreal Tournament 3.



mesoteto on 22 April 2008
ToastyJaguar said:
mesoteto said:
right now the only people that are going to write off the wii are the ones that dont want to make money

 

I can only see Nintendo making big money on the Wii, everyone else looks like their getting scraps.
 yeah that is your opinion and while i think its pure poopy you are entitled to it