GDC 07: Mark Rein talks Unreal Engine 3 on the Wii (again)
by David Hinkle 
{ Mar 9th 2007 at 1:55PM }
He said as much last year (wow, seems like yesterday we were calling this thing the Revolution), but the hopes of seeing the Unreal Engine 3 on the Wii is still strong in the community. And this year at GDC, again the question came up and again Mark Rein took the time to take those hopes into a headlock and proceed to give them the Mark said "this is kinda a high definition engine. Designed for a certain level of graphics card and certain amount of CPU. You know, I'm sure one of our licensees will squeeze it down into the Wii. The way Ubisoft squeezed Unreal Engine 2 into the PSP," he explained in a little bit more detail exactly why the Wii and Unreal Engine 3 won't become best buddies, "Unreal Engine 3 is designed for a high level shader architecture and the Wii doesn't have that. I mean, you know, it's just not what we've been aiming for, so it's not something we're looking to do or support." Mark didn't go on to talk about specific companies that were already looking to license the engine, if there even are any, but apparently its fairly cheap to license as Mark said he "only saw a splinter of the money from Splinter Cell."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sonic @ Mar 9th 2007 3:16PM
We dont need the UT3 Engine. There are plenty of other good looking games that dont use it, why should we care if anyone else does. They think just cause they make a decent looking graphics model that everyone has to use it.
Quake was a better game anyway.
wiiboy101UK @ Mar 9th 2007 3:19PM
this guy is a total tool his imbasealing ways just get worse i meen look at the phat fooker anyone can se his as thick as pig shit.................
hd is resolution not graphics
wii is custom intergrated tech and not a pc or pc gpu plug in card this man talks total horse apples
a wii optermized version of unreal 3 is a 10000000000% possable mark anyone with more than one brain cell knows this YOUR A LYER
and since wen is HD NEXT GEN pcs have high resolutioned for years and years higher resolution screens is not new tech its very old tech as a pc developer you 100% allready know this you phat pork pie eating bull shitting bastaldo............
MARK STOP BEFORE YOUR A GLOBAL LAFFFING STOCK EVEN TO NON GAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ps3 has tredfull loadtimes 3 generation old controls
HOW IS THAT NEW OR NEXT GEN MARK IT CLEARLY IS NOT
take the hd out of a 360 game re mapp using sd textures presto a 360 game on wii minus hd res
IT DOSNT TAKE A COMPUTER GINIUS TO WORK THAT ONE OUT DOES IT MARK!!!!!!!!!!!
WII IS SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES ITS POWERFULL ITS NEW ITS EASIER TO PROGRAMME THAN THE COMPETITION
MARK YOU CAN SAY THE SAME ANTI NINTENDO SHIT OVER AND OVER IT WONT STOP MR AND MISSES CONSUMER BUYING THE WII
SO HERES A CLEVER AND INFORMATIVE IDEA
MAKE A WII OPTERMIZED UNREAL 3 ENGINE SO ALL THE PC WORK AND 360 WORK CAN BE PORTED TO WII OR A WII GAME CAN BE PORTED TO 360 ETC
ITS CALLED COMONSENCE MATE GO GET SOME AND WILST YOUR OUT GET SOME EXERCISE YOU PHAT NOOOOB!!!!!
wiiboy101uk @ Mar 9th 2007 3:32PM
patents for cube mapps/patents for 16 stage shader engines//ovious upgrades to the tev unit a texture colour shader blender mark your a asshole wii supports many things including shading and shadows and hdr lighting
it might not do them in a pc gpu card way no it does them in a wii custom hardware way your an idiot
i bet he hasnt even had a close look at wii dev kits the blatant lyer
Naruhodou @ Mar 9th 2007 4:52PM
Hi wiiboy. Nice to see you're still posting.
Mr Khan @ Mar 9th 2007 5:17PM
And he's posting all over the place, too, eww
Honestly though, i don't think interviewers should be allowed to ask such banal questions
They already know the answer, they knew the answer since the devs began recieving the kits, since E3 06
theLoneYoshi @ Mar 9th 2007 7:37PM
I don't get why not having the Unreal Engine 3 on the Wii is such a big deal. If the engine is meant for the HD consoles, then so be it. The Wii has around less than half of the Xbox 360's horsepower and around a 3rd of the PS3's horsepower, in terms of GPU clock speed at least. If they have to downgrade Unreal 3 to fit within the Wii's horsepower, it would kind of be like... not the Unreal 3 engine anymore anyway.
Seriously though, if he doesn't want to develop for the Wii, then let let him not develop for the Wii.
boot @ Mar 10th 2007 10:26AM
@wiiboy sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed
@topic-Unreal engine is important for the sole reason that most developers are using it to develop games. You have to ask yourself somthing. If you were a developer wouldn't you want to use the cheapest most high tech stuff possible?
boot @ Mar 10th 2007 12:03PM
Another thing...I am already about 75% sure that UE3 will show up on a game for the wii. Like he said "I'm sure one of our licensees will squeeze it down into the Wii." But even if they don't it won't really bother me because there are already engines that would work just fine on the wii like Vicious engine.