Astral Dog
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Nice of them, regardless of who uses it.
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Armature to release UE4 to all Wii U/Vita developers for free
- Thread starter Red Arremer
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Fitting that it's former Retro employees, too.
Father_Brain
Banned
This is a nice idea, but will even indie devs be greenlighting new Wii U and Vita projects in 2017?
Oh, cool! Didn't realize that's where the Metroid Prime guys ended up. In that case, a collaboration between Armature and Playtonic
and whatever Factor 5 employees became
John Bender
Banned
Wow, that's amazing! Way to go, Armature.
Maybe. If the devs are already certified for Wii U or Vita, I could see this helping some of the smaller Unreal 4 projects find their way to more platforms.
Witness me
Actually, the original tech guys from Retro are at Bluepoint!
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I expect the Vita to live for a long time(niche japanese support) so maybe some dev will use it eventually.
protomouse
Member
Thank you based Armature!
StarCreator
Member
What? No, Bloodstained's source code is not going to be made available anytime soon.
megabytecr
Member
Props to them, thanks!
For the ones saying for what, remember UE4 was released for indie development, so we could have some 2D and 3D UE4 indie games by then, that could have a Wii U version because of this.
For the ones saying for what, remember UE4 was released for indie development, so we could have some 2D and 3D UE4 indie games by then, that could have a Wii U version because of this.
M1ch04c4n0
Banned
Well, that's actually great.
I don't get the "but-but-but, platforms will be DEAD!" people. It's like they get upset when developers don't do exactly as they want.
I think someone made a thread like that somewhere.... mmmm.
I don't get the "but-but-but, platforms will be DEAD!" people. It's like they get upset when developers don't do exactly as they want.
I think someone made a thread like that somewhere.... mmmm.
KratosEnergyDrink
Member
Outside of Japan the Vita is already dead, even Sony abonded the system (and this even before some third parties).
The Wii U gets a steady flow of new games and just had a success with Splatoon worldwide. But 2017 will likely see a new Nintendo console because Nintendo's normal console life cycle is ending than.
ThatStupidLion
Member
Lots of late ports inbound....vita legacy life support lives on.
Currently, the three best selling eighth generation platforms there are the 3DS, the Vita, and the Wii U, none of which support UE4, but two are going to given Armature's statement. Because of this, we could theoretically get cross-platform Vita/Wii U/PS4 games that use UE4. This can naturally help the Japanese market stabilize because the Japanese could make Vita and/or Wii U games for their home market and a PS4 port for the rest of the world using one of the established middleware engine standards.
Of course, the best hope for dedicated systems in Japan as far as the international audience for dedicated systems goes is getting UE4 on Nintendo's next handheld since that would mean easy porting between Nintendo's next handheld and the PS4, which would mean that Japan can get both the largest chunk of the domestic audience for dedicated platforms with the version for Nintendo's next handheld and the largest chunk for the international audience for dedicated platforms with the version for PS4 while using one of the established middleware engine standards.
I love that Armature is doing this. I can't see it really amounting to a whole lot but if they find some magic bullets for either system, there might be a few quick-and-dirty ports around 2017 because of this.
The issue is everyone is thinking this will be great for indies, but how many indies are out there using UE4?
The issue is everyone is thinking this will be great for indies, but how many indies are out there using UE4?
Yes it's a huge stretch. Anyone in Japan who is already developing on the Vita will continue to do so if the low margins make sense for them. They don't need UE4 to convince them to keep doing it, and having UE4 doesn't make it any easier for them. Anyone in Japan who isn't already developing on the Vita is clearly not interested in the low margins and having access to some custom UE4 codebase that works on it is not going to convince them.
It's not going to add "years" to the platform, it's not going to add "months" to the platform. Armature is not some super developer who are the only ones capable of the magic feat of getting UE4 to run on Vita. They're just the only ones who are interested at all because they're being paid to do so by another company which isn't interested in doing it themselves.
Wow that's great, they or someone else should ask epic and/or nintendo and/or sony(lol) to help them!
The likely lack of a vita successor(
) ironically could extend vita's lifespan and i can see indies and some japanese developers supporting vita for a long while, the ue4 could be used to port games released even before 2017, but we have to see how many of those games could run on vita though.
The likely lack of a vita successor(
) ironically could extend vita's lifespan and i can see indies and some japanese developers supporting vita for a long while, the ue4 could be used to port games released even before 2017, but we have to see how many of those games could run on vita though.Red Arremer
Member
Update, about, well, there being no update after that initial release of code.
So it 'll be more of a reference for people interested in using UE4 on the platforms too. For others to take a peek at how Armature handled certain issues?
Does anybody know, since they're porting to both Vita and WiiU, if they are starting from the portable engine?