Epic Games have said in the past that they would never consider bringing Unreal Engine 3 to Wii. And guess what? They aren’t, but someone else is! Speaking in an interview with gaming site Kikizo, Epic VP Mark Rein once again reiterated the fact that Epic has no interest in porting the engine over, but revealed that an unnamed developer does.

I just don’t see a big market there to bring this big hulking memory intensive engine over to a much smaller system. I mean, I’m sure some of our licensees, just as a commercial exercise, will probably do it. I know one of our licensee who’s giving it a shot; it’s their own port, in the same way Ubisoft brought Unreal Engine 2 to the Wii – I mean Splinter Cell and Red Steel – Unreal Engine 2, and there’s a few others… but it’s just, we won’t don’t do it ourselves. Look, there’s so many things we can do and are already doing, to improve our engine, on the platforms we’re aiming it at, that going back and working on that [for Wii] just doesn’t make sense.

I tend to agree with Rein… a Wii port is certainly doable but is it worth it?

Making Epic Games: Mark Rein Interview [Kikizo]

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