Despite its worldwide success, Gears of War developer Epic Games has maintained a strong disinterest in Nintendo’s latest console platform, the Wii. Why is that? Will Epic ever develop a game for the console? Company president Mike Capps gave answers to those burning questions and more in an interview conducted during this year’s New York Comic Con.

No, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech. There have been shops that have done it. Red Steel was a launch title and that was on Unreal Engine. So it’s been done. How you take an engine that’s all based on shaders and materials and run it on hardware that doesn’t support shaders is just impossible. It’s about as easy as PSP for us. Maybe it would make sense, but it makes more sense to invest going forward.

Furthermore, Capps downplayed the Wii’s success, labeling the console as a so-called virus. “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,” he said. “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.”

No Wii lovin’ from Epic in the near future, that’s for sure.

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