Epic: Unreal Engine 4 games could be ported to Wii U

[garyopa]

UE4 not 'intended' for Wii U, but could be ported.



According to Mark Rein, it is not the firm's 'intention' to bring Unreal Engine 4 to Nintendo's platform, however, the engine is very scalable...

According to Epic Games vice-president Mark Rein, the company doesn't intend "to bring Unreal Engine 4 to Wii U", however, the engine could run on Nintendo's upcoming console if "a customer decides they want to port an Unreal Engine 4 game" to it.

"We have Unreal Engine 3 running on Wii U," Rein told VideoGamer at Develop yesterday.

"You saw games at the Nintendo press conference again this year - a fantastic demo by our friends at Warner Bros. showing Arkham City running on Wii U. And Aliens: Colonial Marines is coming on Wii U, that's also Unreal. There's, I'm sure, several others. Mass Effect was announced for it as well. So we're certainly playing a role there with Unreal Engine 3.

"I'll state that I don't think it's our intention to bring Unreal Engine 4 to Wii U, but Unreal Engine 4 is going to be supremely scalable.

"We'll run on mobile phones and on a wide variety of things, so if a customer decides they want to port an Unreal Engine 4 game to Wii U, they could. But Unreal Engine 3 is a really good fit for that platform."

PR manager Dana Cowley added that -again-, "beyond the PC, we haven't confirmed any other platforms for Unreal Engine 4."

So, it looks like Epic won't be 'directly' supporting Wii U with Unreal Engine 4, but at least there's confirmation that it runs on Nintendo's next console.

What do you think?

NEWS SOURCE: Unreal Engine 4 games could be ported to Wii U Epic (via) VideoGamer

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[Diztructor]

again wuppee doo, the wii you can run a last gen system, but ?? saying unreal engine 4 "Could be" if gamers wanted, or do they really mean it could be ported aka a dumbed down version in order for the wii u to run it, not the actaull full UR4 engine.

think wii u gamers want to hear devs saying it is runnings UR4 engine, bragging about a last gen engine is a joke, who cares, MS and Sony have been running this already so your point is what exactly o_O

[billysastard]

again wuppee doo, the wii you can run a last gen system, but ?? saying unreal engine 4 "Could be" if gamers wanted, or do they really mean it could be ported aka a dumbed down version in order for the wii u to run it, not the actaull full UR4 engine.

think wii u gamers want to hear devs saying it is runnings UR4 engine, bragging about a last gen engine is a joke, who cares, MS and Sony have been running this already so your point is what exactly o_O

since as it stands ue4 runs only on pc, the answer is that no one knows what other platforms it will run on, but the Samaritan demo runs on ue3.5 and that does run on pc and wii u but is unconfirmed on 360 / ps3