Epic still not supporting wii! ):<

[Theherolink_1]

Not everyone is planning on riding Nintendo's money-printing coattails. In an interview with GameTrailers (embedded above), Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein stated that, as he has on multiple occasions before, that the Unreal and Gears of War developer has no intention on providing middleware support for the Wii.

Rein cited resource concerns, saying that the company is more focused on pushing the limits of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Interestingly, Rein also commented how making Wii graphics engines is not that profitable. "I think unless you're going to sell your engine to Nintendo, you're going for scraps on that platform," he said.

That point has been brought up before, how developers are not interested, and possibly lazy, in developing for the Wii platform and that their budgets for that platform are pretty low. However, from the perspective of a game developer, perhaps Epic could find a way to convert Unreal Tournament 2004 onto Nintendo's platform. The software alone would be profitable, we imagine, and then they'd have Unreal Engine 2 to license out.


more of it is here....or the link whatever:http://wii.joystiq.com/

Those sons of a bi***!

Comments....

 

[Danny]

How about a better link huh?
Besides I Don't really care about Epic.

 

[metroidprime3rules]

Not everyone is planning on riding Nintendo's money-printing coattails. In an interview with GameTrailers (embedded above), Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein stated that, as he has on multiple occasions before, that the Unreal and Gears of War developer has no intention on providing middleware support for the Wii.

Rein cited resource concerns, saying that the company is more focused on pushing the limits of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Interestingly, Rein also commented how making Wii graphics engines is not that profitable. "I think unless you're going to sell your engine to Nintendo, you're going for scraps on that platform," he said.

That point has been brought up before, how developers are not interested, and possibly lazy, in developing for the Wii platform and that their budgets for that platform are pretty low. However, from the perspective of a game developer, perhaps Epic could find a way to convert Unreal Tournament 2004 onto Nintendo's platform. The software alone would be profitable, we imagine, and then they'd have Unreal Engine 2 to license out.


more of it is here....or the link whatever:http://wii.joystiq.com/

Those sons of a bi***!

Comments....

They dont know what there missing :blum:

 

[Phillysoul11]

yeah...forget epic...who needs em?

 

[wiipointsmaster]

can you make a link that we can click on. and who cares about epic.

 

[Ryano]

Couldn't give a crap to be honest, who cares about them...

 

[kaitora]

well it's their loss. even though i like some of their games... they only seem to be bothered about having to do a lot of work to port games over...

 

[Pythorne]

The only game i actually like from epic waas gears of war and its not coming out for the wii. SO to hell with EPic.
(Fine MEanies.... We dont care either)

 

[Squiddy]

Good for them - it's their decision and no one can change it.

Please don't quote me.

 

[Ryano]

Good for them - it's their decision and no one can change it.

Please don't quote me.

You've just been quoted XD

Anyway my post was really about why would you expect them to support Wii, most companies that make big games for a console (Gears of War) will stay loyal to that console...

 

[Squiddy]

Good for them - it's their decision and no one can change it.

Please don't quote me.

You've just been quoted XD

Anyway my post was really about why would you expect them to support Wii, most companies that make big games for a console (Gears of War) will stay loyal to that console...

Not really, Rareware, Factor5, Clover Studios being examples.

Plus, Bungie split up with Microsoft.

 

[Ryano]

Good for them - it's their decision and no one can change it.

Please don't quote me.

You've just been quoted XD

Anyway my post was really about why would you expect them to support Wii, most companies that make big games for a console (Gears of War) will stay loyal to that console...

Not really, Rareware, Factor5, Clover Studios being examples.

Plus, Bungie split up with Microsoft.

ok, I stand corrected....

 

[Jailbreak]

Bungie didnt actualy split with microsoft did they? I heard that was just a rumour, and on topic, iv never heard of them before gears of war so i cant really comment, doesnt seem liek to greater losss, but i suppose twood have been nice to have a wii version of gears of war.

 

[Theherolink_1]

Sorry guys here is a good link for you

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/10/05/epic-we-arent-planning-on-any-wii-projects/

 

[Ryano]

Bungie didnt actualy split with microsoft did they? I heard that was just a rumour, and on topic, iv never heard of them before gears of war so i cant really comment, doesnt seem liek to greater losss, but i suppose twood have been nice to have a wii version of gears of war.

Yeah would've been cool, although the wii could've never handled the graphics.