It Doesn't Look Like Bungie's Next Epic Is Coming To Wii U

No mention was made, but did they ask about a Wii U version specifically? Off to read the linked articles...

edit: They said the engine is designed for 'this gen, next gen and next next gen' and will have a mobile release. I'd guess it could release on the Wii U without much effort...
The game sounds interesting, but I'm not sure it's ten years (the planned length) interesting.

I'm not really surprised. They've played up how important the online component is all through development, and I'm not sure Nintendo's online infrastructure would be open enough for it.

Game was workers on six years for Dour platforms kind of hard to just throw on a fifth. Game isn't set for this year though and activation does like money.

We Nintendo gamers like to whip ourselves into unnecessary frenzy. Games like this tend not to come to a Nintendo system even at the height of the Wii boom (forget the causal console nonsense).

Well, I hope that the hubris being displayed will not come back to haunt them ala 38 studios. Well.......let us wait and see

There's some source code somewhere that suggest they ARE making it for the Wii U as well as BOTH the current gen and next gen Sony and XBox consoles. Vita too.

You know the biz anyway: once the platform will be booming, and especially if the next PS and Xbox fail to impress with all that pressure, devs will start reading Iwata Asks and make games for the Wii U.

@star-fox

38 studios had big troubles and wasn't the studio behind Halo backed by activison publishing.

This is a shame but I may get it on my Xbox...

They used the "My Body is Ready" meme in the reveal trailer. Wii U confirmed.

If it's Activision then it's coming to Wii U.

Well seems like no "epic games" will come to wii u...

Well that was a good commercial. Hopefully all this talk will be backed up with a good game..

I'm not surprised. Just disappointed as usual.

This wouldn't surprise me. Bungie has next to no experience in working with Nintendo or Nintendo platforms. Why go to the ADDITIONAL expense in training everyone up and working overtime to support a platform that barely sells?

hope it makes it to wiiu bungie started the fps boom(sadly) with halo and between the original and reach none of those other lame fps imitators have even came close to there majesty

No offence to Bungie fans, but meh....

This wouldn't bother me. Bungie are one of the most overrated developers around. They had a fluke with the original Halo (even though it was far from a perfect game) and the sequels got progressively worse. It's hardly the end of the world if they don't make games for Wii U.

Ya i honestly don't care. I don't really like First Person Shooters anyway. As far as FPSs go, Halo is definately not in my top 10, so for me no big loss.

@Bankai It's comments like that that make me wonder why you even post here!?!? Is it your goal to wild up Nintendo fans?!?! Let's look at how well PS3 sold its first year! Oh wait I did the work for you 5,552,000. I'm going to guess that Nintendo has a good shot at passing that!

@Tech101 what does Sony have to do with it?

Sony had a poor first couple of years for the same reason Nintendo has started off poorly - there's not enough consoles in people's hands to justify spending big money on it. If you don't like that, then go set up a studio and make a game that costs you $10 million to port to the Wii U.

You won't enjoy breaking the news to your hundreds of employees that they all are now out of work because the game failed to turn a profit, though.

I don't say it to be nasty, but to state a basic reality of business - you don't make stuff that can't possibly sell enough to turn a profit.

@Bankai My point was that if people had the same philosophy as your talking about in your first post the PS3 should've been dead years ago. Plus you're bashing the sales of the Wii U which is going along at about the same pace as the PS3. Would you have said the same thing about Sony's system in it first 4 months?

@Tech101 um, yes? I say the same thing about the Vita now.

Numbers don't really lie, see. Businesses don't really care about these console wars and such. They just want to make the most amount of money while spending as little as possible to do it.

Supporting consoles with irrelevant install bases is expensive and not typically profitable. I'm not 'bashing' anything. I am not even stating an opinion here. I am relaying a simple fact.

@Bankai Well with that philosophy its a wonder why any systems get off to a running start. Most systems don't sell well their first year sometimes second as well. If the game is good and is released on a system with little to choose from then it could be a mass hit.

If we take your approach then the gaming industry would've died off many years ago due to the fact nobody wanted to take a chance on a new system and just made games for the old ones. We should all be still playing Sega and Nintendo only then right?

Looks alright,but I'd rather have Remember Me on Wii U.

I guess I'll stop holding my breath, then.

@CDreams developers are staffed by people who have families to feed and run by people who have shareholders that give them huge amounts of money to be able to make amazing games.

I will never understand why people think that companies should stop acting like companies when it comes to the games industry. We are talking multi-million dollar projects and hundreds of lives. You would have to be a very selfish person to expect a company to bankrupt itself to suit you.

And frankly I have more sympathy for the people who actually understand business and work hard to keep their staff in gainful employment while giving me games to play, than some random dude with no clear understanding of the business consditions these games are being made under having a whinge on a Internet forum because he didn't get the proverbial lollipop from the supermarket.

Regarding launches. The trick to getting third party support for a launch when there isn't the economic reasons to support the new console is for the platform holder to offer incentives to the third parties. Whether that is co-marketing campaigns, or even taking over the distribution of the game (as Nintendo has done for numerous games in the Wii U launch window), the point is - that support for a new console by third parties? It's either paid for, or really cheap to achieve - such as a 'lazy' port.

I bet the working title for this game was "Sphere" as the Halo developers idea of something new.

They typed "My body is ready" on their phone... Isn't that a hint at Wii U?

@Tech101 @Bankai

Ichigo Kurosaki vs Kenshin Himura! Shinigami vs Battousai! Ready, fight!

Joking aside, I'm iffy when it comes to MMOs, so I'm not 100% sure I'd buy this even if it was coming to the Wii U.

"Meet U there? . . . My body is ready!"
No Wii U version? Really?

Eh, I can live without it...

bankai why cant you excepth tech's argument which makes sense the wiiu is in the ps3 position just after launch and that console is doing okay now your not a fanboy are ye?

@Bankai I do agree about the lazy port. It's more of a here you go you get to play that as well but I'm talking about good quality games here. If the game is good more times then not it will sell no matter what the system or console life. We lost some good companies over the past few years and from what I recall it wasn't because they were developing for a low installer base either!

If I'm a programmer and my boss tells me ok we are developing a game for the Wii U I'm not going to go oh crap I hope I have a job in a few months after release. I go in saying ok how do we make this the best game ever on any system! Yes the bottom line is always money not pleasing any specific system. You can do both and be successful!

Watched the trailer... so Halo meets Gears of War. Oh boy, so creative!

I looks like Halo with a different shell on it. If it comes to Wii U, great. If it doesn't, great. The chance of me paying any more than $5 for this on Steam, 1%. I don't need more than FPS in my life. Until you can top Left 4 Dead, just don't bother me with this repetitive junk.

I dont give a doodoo about this game, but for the WiiU to seem relavent it needs 3rd party support like this.

No big loss.

Possibly a pretty big loss for the Wii U, because the concept of this game looks amazing.

It will be great to see it on the Wii U, but ill most likely buy it for the PS3 anyway to play with more of muly friends.

@Bankai
The same could be said for the next Xbox and Playstation. The architectures would probably be different from the 360 and PS3, so they'd have to learn how to use those consoles as well. In addition to that, those new consoles could also "barely sell" when they launch. So why make a version for those two new consoles?

if they bring it to the wiiU i will buy it, if not then its their loss then i wont buy it lol.
i love the wiiU, the controller is just mindblowing, and i know that nintendo has something up their sleeves.

The Wii U definitely needs a big 3rd party game like this, but at the same time, I can't say I'm very excited about it, or that I would even buy it.

Yes the wii u need 3rd party support and not some garbage port that they thunk they could just label and look sumport.you make garbage don't make it for the wii u make it elsewhere.how many games they made that was good for the wii...never heard of them and until these so call developers trying something you have to try harder for my 65.00

There were numerous Nintendo references during the concept video, as well as the whole murmur about the source code reveal. I'd say the chances of this coming to the Wii U aren't to be written off yet at all.

Perhaps they're trying to resolve how to adapt this game to the Wii U's design mechanics before revealing it too soon. Maybe it'll be revealed in a gameplay video following not too long after.

More fail from Nintendo. I'll never buy another Nintendo product again.

I am adding the term "platform agnostic" to my vocabulary.

@SpaceApe Yet you log on to here, create an account because you...dont like Nintendo? Get a life dude

I really don't care, as long as it's on PC. I prefer my shooters and my MMOs on PC, and this seems to be like both, so I'd definitely go PC on this one. I loved Bungie's earlier work, so I'm quite excited about this game.

I really hope that whatever they were doing with that iPhone works with Windows Phone too, but I doubt it will.

@IxnayontheCK
LOL!!!

it'ld be nice if once coming on this site it said "this game IS coming to the system"

Third party games, especially those geared towards hardcore shooter fans, sell poorly on Nintendo's platforms. If the rumours are that Destiny will come along with a monthly online fee, I doubt Bungie would even break even releasing this on Wii U.

Don`t know why anyone is surprised by this.

Honestly, for Wii U's sake, this is the game that needs to come to Wii U. This game alone could shift perception of Nintendo from being kiddie and no 3rd party support. If this game came out on Wii U and was successful, then it could effectively shut 3rd parties up about how their games don't sell on Nintendo consoles. So yeah, I'm hoping that happens.

Oh thank God. Halo is really the steamiest pile of FPS garbage to ever come out. Please, Bungee, keep your junk away from Nintendo's systems.

A big multiplatform third-party title not being released on the Wii U? Geez, what a surprise that is.

I like the look of this game and the Bungie devs have to be itching to do something more creative and brave. I don't see the quotes as suggesting anything one way or the other on Wii U. Hope it comes. I also hope the heavy co-op focus gets the Wii U special: two players no split screen.

@aaronsullivan This is a MMO - not your average shooter. You can almost certainly rule out any local co-op. Instead, you'll most likely (or better yet, almost certainly) be paying a monthly fee to access the online servers.

I like the art style but that's about it. I'm not into FPS games or MMOs so it doesn't look like this game is for me.

It doesn't look like I care!

gimme metroid prime 4 anyday.

also I don't like co-op fps's, so this bothers me not

Does the game seem a little xenophobic to anybody else?

"Strange new life has taken place... You are the last beacon of civilsation". Not human civilisation, but civilisation period.

I mean, it looks just like another FPS and the storyline equates to 'shoot the evil aliens'... So why do we care that it might not be coming?

Oh, right, there is some myth of a golden age and some long gone super powerful god aliens.

OMG not this game too it would make sense nintendo network is light years behind psn xbl steam is there any good news for this failing box this thing came out 6 monthes ago and its already faded from the limelight