It looks like Nintendo’s Wii U will have to miss out on another game as well. Dead Island: Riptide won’t launch on Nintendo’s newest.
The reason for this is that the developers would have to rebuilt or port the entire Riptide engine.
This is what they had to say:
“One of the opportunities we had for Riptide was to continue the development of the engine, and really improve it and make a lot of refinements,” he said. “The things that are required to bring something to a new platform, you need to either really get to be integrating it deep into the engine, or you’ve got to [do] a port.
“Neither one of those was a satisfactory outcome for us, so we decided to do what we got platform-wise and just make sure that we can deliver the best experience we can.”
The game will release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April.
