THQ clarifies the comment made by Oles Shishkovtsov, 'Wii U is horible, slow CPU" that made rounds on the Internet.
Shishkovtsov, chief technical officer at 4A Games, developers of Metro: Last Light made the comment Nov. 20, implying that their game will not be arriving for Wii U.
The game's publisher THQ went on to clarify, "It's a very CPU intensive game. I think it's been verified by plenty of other sources... that the CPU on Wii U on the face of it isn't as fast as some of the other consoles out there. Lots of developers are finding ways to get around that because of other interesting parts of the platform," said Huw Beynon, global communications manager THQ, to Eurogamer.
THQ does admit that the CPU is not exactly as mighty and powerful, but many developers have found a work-around, Gameranx reported.
"I think that what frustrates me about the way the story's been spun out is that there's been no opportunity to say, 'Well, yes, on that one individual piece maybe it's not as... maybe his opinion is that it's not as easy for the way that the 4A engine's been built as is the others."
"What it doesn't go on to look at is to say that, you know, we could probably get around that. We could probably get Metro to run on an iPad if we wanted, or on pretty much anything. Just as in the same way that between PC and current console versions there are some compromises that need to be made in certain places and we strive to get the very best performance that we can from any platform we release on."
He goes on to add, "But I understand that there's a real appetite in the media at the moment because the Wii U is a hot topic to spam some stories that are going to attract a lot of links if they present it in a certain way."
Metro: Last Light is slated to be released in March 2013 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.