News: Techland contests Deep Silver's Dead Island: Riptide Wii U comments

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News: Techland contests Deep Silver's Dead Island: Riptide Wii U comments

Added: 19.03.2013 16:13 | 3 views | 0 comments

Developer claims that Chrome Engine is ready for Wii U, despite publisher suggesting otherwise.

News: Techland contests Deep Silver's Dead Island: Riptide Wii U comments news

Speaking to GameSpot in response to Deep Silver's claims, which suggested that the developer would have had to re-engineer its engine specifically for Wii U, a Techland spokesperson revealed that "Wii U compatibility was coded, created, and tested months ago, back in 2012.

"There's no 'rewriting' needed to make it work on Nintendo's latest console. So the bottom line is that there were no plans to create a Wii U version but that decision had nothing to do with Chrome Engine's inability to run on that platform."

Techland's comments conflict with those made by Deep...