July 14th, 2011

Crytek talks about the Wii U

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It was revealed a while back that CryEngine, a stunning video game engine from Crytek is well on its way to supporting the Wii U. Carl Jones has said that, in regards to the Wii U:

It’s something we’re really interested in. There are a load of Nintendo fans at Crytek, right up to the top of the company. We were unfortunately unable to support the last generation of Wii because it would have been quite an engineering effort to take the engine down to that level of hardware.


He added that “we were quite excited to see a new level of hardware come out that we think we can support, do some good stuff with, and it’s something we’re currently experimenting with.”

Even so, Jones is wary of the “hardcore” market moving to the Wii U:

I don’t know if we’ll see flagship core titles on that platform – as a fan of Nintendo I’d love to see it personally, but I also enjoy playing the non-core titles a great deal. Whether or not we need core titles as well, we’ll see. That’ll be up to the consumer. But if you can get the same visual quality from Wii U as from other platforms, then why not?


Either way, it’s great to have the support of Crytek. They’re great developers who, at the very least, will be able to show off how powerful the Wii U is.

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    PASS. Crytek can keep their games. We know for a fact that the Wii U is vastly more powerful than the PS3 and 360 so their no reason to even mention the system’s power as being something they ‘think’ they can support? Huh? C’mon.

    I wouldn’t be surprised that some of these companies that are still on the fence about the Wii U are shocked at just how powerful the system really is and are forced for the first time to actually THINK and use CREATIVITY instead of more hardcore shovel-ware.

    Add 1-part FPS
    Add 3-parts violence
    Add 2-parts pretty graphics

    Stir and serve.

  • Braeden

    wooot

  • lizzie1238

    There are a load of Nintendo fans at Crytek, right up to the top of the company
    Because of this quote, I am now a fan of Crytek :)

  • superdk35

    I want some kind of timesplitters game rather than crysis believe it or not.

  • Neoxon

    In other words, they’ll make core titles for the Wii U if the consumers want it. Well…we want core titles on the Wii U. Hit us with your best shot, Crytek.

  • http://MSN Brandon Matthews

    Don’t hold anything back, Crytek!
    My body is ready for Timesplitters 4! :D

  • btj

    They better bring their best, the wii u needs all the core support it can get!

  • Jmaster720

    OMG OMG I LOVE Timesplitters come on bring on the 4th one although I have to say… the 3rd one was horribly ported over to the Gamecube :P

  • stratisfire

    this news almost made me cry. get it? CRY.. like Crytek??

  • The Video Gamer

    Crysis 3 and Timesplitters 4 please. Wouldn’t mind an exclusive hardcore game on the Wii U as well.

  • theguythatlikespie

    :D

  • Tails the Foxhound

    If he likes the non-core titles they should try developing a non-core title themselves. Honestly though, I’d like to try a Crysis to see what all the fuss is about.

  • Nelenatonin

    whooop

  • Nelenatonin

    Imagine one of the ads for the Wii U being the Dalai Lama vs. The Pope in Crysis!

  • raedjhn

    me to XD

  • wide awake

    im going to go into the garden and look for mythical core gamers il also look for fairys and goblins and unicores whilst im at the bottom of my garden

    big difference between a so called core and a ms or sony fanboy not coming across has zero to do with being core..

  • Andy

    Your joke almost made me want to strangle you. Get it? STRAngle… like STRAtisfire. Sorry, another bad joke…

  • chinomanila

    Sweet.

  • Chinomanila
  • The One Who Wrote This

    That stinks!! Also, one of the guys who was in the comments said something about the Assassins Creed 3ds game being pulled. Is that true?

  • bananna man

    getting fast tired of the 3rd party MONG hurp durp core BS

  • The One Who Wrote This

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/operationmoogle/signatures

    Go here for the Operation Moogle Petition and help us get Square Enix make an HD Final Fantasy Game!!

  • chinomanila

    Yes, that is true. They put all there ideas from the 3DS game into Assassin’s creed revaluations…

  • stratisfire

    i better hANDY it to you. that was worse than my joke. lul

  • stratisfire

    meh. i can get farcry 3 on the pc

  • GameCollector44

    …Why isn’t there a petition for this instead of Chrono Trigger 3…there already is a HD FF game…it’s called Final Fantasy XIII. I hate FF in all honesty…it used to mean something, now it’s like every other game they make. :/

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    Probably better that way anyway.

  • The One Who Wrote This

    That stinks!!

  • lazygoron16

    I’m with you gamecollector44, why the hell there not doing chrono trigger 3, I mean the could just port over xenoblade and all these other jrpg to the wii u, I dont now what the problem is. square enix should of done this years ago, I don’t care if its another dev team, as long as its true to the original I will buy, not even, I would buy the collectors addition if they made one.

  • lazygoron16

    agreed

  • lazygoron16

    its nintendo, theres a reason why dev arent too sure to go with them, they mest up this gen (well not really mest up but went another way) so they are still thining about it.

  • donzaloog

    Hardcore shovel-ware is right. A lot of these companies just put out the same shitty FPS all the time and people keep buying it.

    That’s the major reason some people don’t like Nintendo, it doesn’t have enough games to satisfy their bloodlust.

  • donzaloog

    Farcry would be a great addition to the Wii U library. Come on people you have no excuse get it done, PLEASE!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    I forgot to add something REALLY important. When I said “HD Final Fantasy Game”, I really meant “HD Final Fantasy Collection”. Sorry about that!

    Anyways, if you want to start the petition for Chrono Trigger 3, just go to this link, scroll down to the bottom, and start a new petition.
    http://www.ipetitions.com/

  • Joseph

    I just find out the Wii U controller isn’t multi-touch… seriously Nintendo? cheap bastards.

  • Symbol de Au

    You JUST found out?

  • zxride64

    Is multi touch really that important? Especially for gaming, and from what i heard those screens tend to go bad kinda quickly.

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    I’ve also heard the same thing. It’s strange that people complained about the controller possibility being to expensive as it is already. Now we’ve got someone saying that Nintendo is ‘cheap’ because they decided against putting technology into the controller which would have made it even MORE expensive? o_O

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Does single touch have more precision than multi-touch? If that’s the case, then I would keep single touch.

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Was the 2nd one the game that had a chicken as a playable character in the multiplayer mode?

  • The One Who Wrote This

    “hardcore shovel-ware.”

    Great use of words! I should use that more often!!

  • Neoxon

    The thing is, multi-touch doesn’t really play nice with normal styluses (they need to be heated to work). Though multi-touch has more uses, single-touch is more precise at the end of the day.

  • Andy

    lol, good one, mate.

  • stratisfire

    its probably for the best because multi-touch isnt nearly as accurate as single touch. thats why they havent integrated it into the ds

  • Andy

    ‘.. see how it goes’?!! Ubisoft is supposed to be one of the main 3rd party supporting Wii U, and now this? They better be careful on their interviews/press releases/conferences, or it’s gonna start to look REAL bad, I’m afraid…

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    True that. Good point!!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Yeah!! I even resorted to calling them “Ubisofties” and I don’t call companies bad names like that OFTEN (though I did type Micro$oft and $ony)! These news reports have helped me see the light of day on that company.

  • The One Who Wrote This

    You guys make me have a good chuckle!! ^_^

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Ubisoft cancelled AC3DS.
    It looks like Ubisoft
    *Puts on Sunglasses*
    has killed our respect.
    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!­!!

  • http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian L.

    “I don’t know if we’ll see flagship core titles on that platform – as a fan of Nintendo I’d love to see it personally, but I also enjoy playing the non-core titles a great deal.”

    Five reasons why the Wii U will see flagship “core” titles:

    1. The Wii U has lower development costs than other systems. (With game development costs rising, that’s a major factor to consider.)

    2. The Wii U is easier to develop games for than other systems. (Easier development on a more powerful console? That should gain a lot of “core” developers attention after a while. Easier development = faster development = sooner released games.)

    3. The Wii U has perhaps the smartest console controller we’ve seen in several years. (It balances traditional controls with peripheral controls, in a way where they complement each other well. It’s probably the closest thing we can call a universal controller, and I think every kind of gamer will grow to love it.)

    4. Nintendo’s adamant on gaining strong third-party support and are working closely with developers to make Wii U a strong choice for their support.

    5. Wii U has the best potential to appealing to every kind of gamer out there. (If Wii U has the potential of catering to the widest audience possible in gaming–everybody. The controller has universal appeal, and even has the potential for developing many “lighter” gamers into more “core” gamers.)

    I think developers just need to see the Wii U in action to get rid of any doubts about it. Give it a year after the Wii U’s launch, and they will be no doubts about if Wii U can really carry the “core” market’s support. And if the Wii U launches at $350 (as I suspect it will), consider it the leader in the gaming market.

    Nintendo has already said that they will not stop being Nintendo, and that they’ll continue to do what games they do best. But it’s up to 3rd-party developers to be the Wii U’s success with 3rd-party games. I think developers shouldn’t be so skeptical about the Wii U’s success, because THEY’RE the Wii U’s success, if they’d just confidently embrace it.

    My two cents.

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    No arguments from me. Pretty much covered everything. I think the Wii U is the ‘excuse eliminator’. Both for developers and for gamers. A lot over people are going to be exposed with this system. We truly will find out which companies have true creativity and which companies have been on auto-pilot for the past 10 years.

  • Selladoor88

    Not to mention Nintendo are known the world over for not getting along with the third party game makers.

  • Selladoor88

    I’m sick of reading “we are thinking about it” I want to see them say “yes we are making games for the Wii U” (=

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    Agreed.

  • http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian L.

    Thanks, The One Who Wrote This!

  • http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian L.

    Well, that’s changing. Nintendo’s adamant about gaining third-party support, and they’re including them in the development process of their online service. Wii U is a FAR different beast than Wii.

  • http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian L.

    LOL

  • Tails the Foxhound

    Don’t forget the fact that it supports the Wii’s main controllers so that they can even add motion controls. With proper third party support, I’d have no qualms calling the Wii U the bedt system in the world, ever.

  • Joseph

    SAME HERE.

  • Joseph

    WIN.

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Glad to help!!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Well, your two cents are AWESOME!! Great points!!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Ditto.

  • zxride64

    You said exactly what everybody who wants this console has in there head.

  • Dude

    The WiiU will die as fast as the Dreamcast. Don’t get your hopes up fanboys.

    PS4 and XBOX 720 will over powered the WiiU once it is released, leaving the WiiU in the dust as a worthless console.

    Nintendo will experience a huge bankruptcy. Don’t trust the creating fags of Shitentndo.

  • http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian L.

    Yep. Me, too.

  • hungryhippo247

    Game developers have a lot of respect for Nintendo.
    Because Nintendo is the reason why they are able to be game developers to begin with! :D

  • hungryhippo247

    Me too mate!

  • Joseph
  • Symbol de Au

    Aww man I was about to post that…well whatever I’ll post it anyway.

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-18-assassins-creed-wii-u-isnt-revelations

    But this is sort of the same kind of news as the “We’re thinking about it” since it’s Ubisoft and Assassin’s creed.

  • chinomanila

    I guess that is good news.

  • Timmy Stevens

    Hmm taking place after Assassin Creed revelation could be something like Assassin Creed New World and takes place in the Americas .

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    Preach it!

  • Andy

    For Wii U, yes. For 3DS, I fear it might just gradually be dying. Less and less games are being developed from 3rd parties, it seems.

  • CrazyJ

    Tritto

  • http://www.wix.com/destroyah/broknrhytm2 D2K

    It’s too early to think that. A lot of games are still in development stage for 3DS. A lot of the third-party 3DS games are games that probably were in development for the DS and when 3DS was announced they just ported them over with 3D effects tacked-on.

    Nintendo made the same mistake with 3DS as they did with N64. They promised us the world at launch and only gave us a ‘state.’ But things have started to pick up for 3DS. By next year, it’ll be fine.

  • Andy

    Quadritto.

  • stratisfire

    AWESOME!? now i can get revelations on the pc and then the wiiu assasins creed :O

  • Nia

    Respecting Nintendo and wanting to make games with Nintendo are two different things.

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Interesting idea!!

  • The One Who Wrote This

    Dude, please give me the source that shows Sony and/or Microsoft releasing the Xbox 720 and PS4. Also, you don’t have a time machine, so you don’t know what will happen. Lastly, you were probably expecting someone to retaliate to you, so I guess that I am that person. Well, please go back to the underside of the bridge: the 3 goats are waiting for you. ;-)

  • jay

    no no no the wii u needs frostbite 2