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id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead believes the Wii U looks interesting, but needs to talk to id co-founder and lead programmer John Carmack to see how Rage’s id Tech 5 would run on the new console.
“I haven’t really had a chance to sit down with [John] Carmack about it, because it’s his opinion that matters,” Hollenshead told IGN. “From what Nintendo is saying, [the Wii U] looks interesting, but it still remains to be seen how it fits within how id Tech 5 would run on it, is the audience right for us to develop games on that platform.”
As for why Rage isn’t coming to the Wii, it’s a simple matter of id not wanting to put out a crippled version of the game.
“For Rage, as much as Nintendo might not like to hear this, id Tech 5 is too much tech for the Wii,” added Hollenshead. “We’re not doing a crappy version of Rage on the Wii. If you play the PC, the PS3, the 360 version, you get all of it. All the media’s the same. We didn’t make the crippled version that somebody wishes they had some other platform to play on.”
John Carmack recently expressed his frustration at PC driver overheads, which result in modern PCs struggling to deliver the performance they’re really capable of.
Rage is due for release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 7.
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Rage
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter
