In an interview with gameindustry.biz, Crytek shows off more excitement regarding the upcoming Wii U with their main praises revolving around the processing and graphical power of the system.
The company revealed they already have one of their branches working with the current Wii U dev kits and while they are only testing around with stuff on the kits and not actual game development, the development team said they were happy with all the stuff they could do and be possible with the early kits.
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Considering the huge emphasis that Crytek puts on the graphical presentation of its games (IE needing super computers to process its PC games), for the development team to praise the Wii U’s processing power is in a sense, Nintendo getting praise from Caesar.
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Crytek in the past had said the Crysis engine worked well on the earlier versions of the Wii U kits and was the basis for their praise and potential future support of the system. The company also hinted in the past they wanted to branch out to other consoles with Free Radical initially rumored to be working on a TimeSplitters 4 for the Wii and other consoles until that project was cancelled.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/cryt...l-capabilities
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