The Unreal Engine 3, the tech behind games like Gears of War, is available to anyone with a big enough bank account. That said, it looks like a Wii developer has decided to write that check and try to cram all the power behind one of the newest and most graphically impressive game engines out there into that little ‘ol Wii. Epic VP Mark Rein says one of the company’s engine licensees is currently attempting to port the Unreal Engine 3 onto Nintendo’s Wii. “I know one of our licensees who’s giving it a shot. It’s their own port, in the same way Ubisoft brought Unreal Engine 2 to the Wii,” Rein said at the Unreal Tournament III launch event in Birmingham.

I’m sorry but while the Wii can’t exactly compete on the same level as the other two big boys, it can look better than the first Xbox and Gamecube. Look at games like ‘Black’ on regular Xbox, that looks better than anything on the Wii so far, and that’s Last Gen!

It all comes down to time and money. Publisher’s and developer’s just don’t seem to want to put any of either of those things into development of Wii titles. Then there’s the fact that most of the audience for the Wii seems to be old people and small children at the moment. The problem with that is that audience really doesn’t seem to care what the graphics look like and how amazing or crappy a game looks.

If developers don’t start putting better teams on making Wii games than we’ll never get the technology push you see on the Xbox 360 and PS3. When a developer can spend half the time and budget, or less, on a game for Wii and sell it to five times more people than they don’t see any reason to actually take pride in their work and produce something worth looking at.

So, basically, if you don’t like the looks, don’t buy the game. It would be nice if it were that easy, but unfortunetly, there’s always going to be those Grandparents and children that have no taste and continue the cycle of crap. Oh well.

Boom!