Humour you? Bore off.
For the benefit of lazy ignorants, antis, hit-and-run trolls and deluded souls who still believe that it's not an 8th Gen console, everything about those engines has been confirmed. Of course, it's easy to laugh with the sheeple, cry 'damage control' or 'fanboy' at the positive news... **Sigh and Roll Eyes**.
All one needs to do is Google 'Wii U Havok' - the second entry even links to a NeoGAF thread discussing it, but maybe some eyeballs with removed with an ice-pick and shoved into their ears. Ah, ignorance and its false sense of bliss!! The fifth entry links to
CVG, and a few pages in, there are links from
Develop Online and
GameSpot
As for UE4, when Geoff Keighley said that it wouldn't in a tweet, Epic were quick to shut all that talk down, saying that no plans for Nintendo were confirmed at the time. On 12th July, Mark Rein of Epic told the
VideoGamer website that developers could port a UE4 game to the Wii U. Although he says UE3 would be a better fit (he would say that, as he's a salesman, too - games are still using it), the point is that the Wii U is capable, so there is no excuse to ignore it when other consoles are out. There are articles on
Nintendo Life,
Cubed3 and
CVG.
Luminous is scalable, from PCs, to possible PS3, to mobiles, the iPad and other tablets - Hashimoto's words...
CVG and
GameTrailers are the first two entries on a Google search of "Luminous Engine scalable". Didn't even have to add "Wii U" to that.
On Frostbite 2 - Battlefield 3 was coming to Wii U at one time, confirming that it's capable. Medal of Honor: Warfighter is on the list of games mentioned, and the reels played on the streaming of the Wii U conferences and events on 13th September - It uses Frostbite 2. See it for yourselves.
Not my words, but the Crytek CEO - "Cry Engine 3 runs beautifully on the Wii U"; Among other sites,
IGN and
Joystiq also reporting that a respected developer was making a game running on it and it looked great.
A Google search of "Wii U Unity Engine" shows a link from
Engadget as the first entry, stating news of a partnership which would enable 1.2 million Unity licensees to develop games for the Wii U - Links from EuroGamer, GameSpot and Escapist Magazine can be found on the first page alone. At the top of the second page, an
IGN article is there, and it is followed by articles from Nintendo Gamer, CVG, GamesRadar, Examiner and Gamasutra.
So, Yeah, I had quotes, and I don't give credence to NeoGAF threads and its vocal Internet minority bubble. You know what else? If developers can get The Witcher 2 on the XBox 360, or Crysis 2 on 7th Gen consoles, then they can find a way to get later 8th Gen games onto the Wii U - At least, Nintendo fans can take heart from such achievements. Still, the XBox 360 was released in 2005 - If Batman: AC, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, The Witcher 2 and Skyrim were revealed in early 2010, or people were told at the time of its launch that it would see such games on there, then nobody would've believed it, and thought that all those games were a taste of the 8th Generation. Halo 4, too - We had a longer generation than usual, and it's taken 6-7 years to reach that point on consoles, and those games have pushed it and the PS3 to their limits. In the case of the XBox 360, there's an argument which says that its successor should've been released in 2010, if not 2011 or certainly in 2012. Even Lost Planet was 13 months old when it was ported to the PS3, and that game is regarded as a horrible port job - Yet NOBODY ever used that as a stick to measure the full capabilities of the PS3... and it had been out for over a year by then. Or Bayonetta on the PS3, which was regarded by Platinum Games as their biggest failure (I still played and adore this game, but thought that the XBox 360 version was better). Yes, the PS3, the successor to the winnner of the 6th Generation. By the same token, COD2 NEVER, EVER reflected the true capabilities of the XBox 360. Yet, people here believe that the Wii U has reached, or is close to its full potential on DAY ONE/LAUNCH WINDOW PORT JOBS... and some ask ME to 'humour them', as if I'm the delusional one!? What Gall!! No, that's just sections of NeoGAF being dumb.