Its a question to start the Topic's comments ...not a interpretation of mine (my opinion about it was not given there)

Only something for people to opine about.

 

WOOOT-WOOOT
HERE COMES THE PAINFULLY MASSIVE AMOUNT OF iOS AND ANDROID PORTS TRAIN.

 

First angry birds re-released as an over-priced "retail" game now this? Here comes the flood of casual games marked up cause of Nintendo's greed.

 

Complete with bullshit built in items to purchase with real $ to speed up your crops or buildings being built

 

Because it makes it easier to put massive amounts of shovelware on the platform like the Wii had.

 

I swear, on first glance, I saw this as "heavy petting" and "sexy time".

What's happening to me?

ONTOPIC: How about a multiplayer Slender? Say, four players, all being chased by Slenderman. The anticipation and eventual getting-caught-by-Slenderman kicks the anxiety and scare factor up by a few notches for the players remaining, building up to a jittery mess for the last man standing.

 

Wait, what? How could the addition of an engine not mean more of a type of game?
There's a reason why unity is used for moblies so often: it's built around mobile hardware, it runs with just 300 MB (in fact I think it can use even less if you cut certain features) and it features things other engines on the platform lack. On a console it's a whole new game.. tons more competition with dramatically higher capability. What could one expect more companies to release shovelware on, an engine like Unreal, or a cheap engine that's known for its mobile games?

 

You say that Zantigo but the amount of dross I see stuck on top of the unreal engine (see many film cash in games) and the amount of dross I see elsewhere does not make it as clear cut as it might be. Equally I think I am of the opinion that complaining about shovelware is akin to complaining about someone wasting space on the internet- you can just look past it.

Anyway I am all for rapid development and similar such options and if this allows the Wii U to rock up with a serious collection of card games, puzzle games, electronic versions of board games and other staples the Wii U can "emulate" in terms of features I am definitely all for it- I would argue this might be more akin to Microsoft's XNA and few would argue it alone was a negative in an of itself (Microsoft's treatment of the community, their long terms views of the API/framework and similar such things are a different matter).

 

Unity coming doesn't necessarily mean more shovelware. It's a game engine, not a shovelware creator. Shovelware will come regardless of engine support.

And there is no one or the other situation. You're not forced to use either Unreal Engine or Unity Engine.