The first new console of the next generation the Wii U will not receive one of 2013's biggest games, Crysis 3.
In an interview with Digital Spy, CEO and founder of Crytek Cevat Yerli said that there would be no Wii U version of the shooter due the business relationship between publisher EA and Nintendo.
"There has been discussions between Nintendo and EA and Crytek, but the bottom line is that there is that there's not enough business drive in it," Yerli told Digital Spy. "It's a purely business decision. I'd love to see it on Wii U, but what I love to see and what gets done at the end of the day are two different things. Even so, I could initiate it but someone has to sell it, right?"
Yerli said that it's a business decision between EA and Nintendo and that Crytek can't publish the game on its own.
"It's a business decision between EA and Nintendo," Yerli told Digital Spy. "If that business decision doesn't make sense, or seems to not make sense for them, it's... not possible for us to make it. We can't publish ourselves, and that's the bottom line."
The article also mentions that a Wii U game is under development using CryEngine 3, but that it is not from Crytek.
In an earlier interview with Videogamer, Yerli said Crysis 3, the finale in the sci-fi first-person shooter series, is utilizing the current generation of consoles to their maximum capabilities.
"No game will ever look technically better than Crysis 3 on these consoles, flat out," Yerli told The Videogamer. "Most games are not even anywhere near Crysis 2 technically. I'm not talking about art style - art is subjective - but the pure fact of what we have been cramming in with Crysis 2 on Xbox [360] and PlayStation [3], I've yet to see a game do that still today."
Unfortunately, the Crysis 3 not get to use Wii U's added power when it releases on Feb. 19 in North America and Feb. 22 in Europe. The game will release for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Here is the game's official synopsis from publisher Electronic Arts:
"New York City lies in ruin. Skyscrapers once thought to be timeless monuments crumble and give way to vines. Clamoring streets that filled with rush-hour traffic now host the banks of a river. An underground system designed to support millions has rotted into caverns as deep and dark as anywhere on Earth. A nanodome looms overhead, keeping the eye of the outside world out and an untold danger in. This is where you strike.
Nature has reclaimed what was once the world's most iconic city and you'll have to adapt if you want to survive. Stalk your prey through a shadowy 5th avenue rainforest or wade waist-high through an urban swamp. Cover ground quickly over the midtown grasslands or seek cover in a deep, etched Wall Street canyon. You'll need to plan for any situation in the wreckage of the city. With the dome overhead and alien technology on the loose there's no telling what challenges you'll face.
So, you better be ready to use every situation and environment to your advantage, because you won't get a second chance. It's a jungle out there."
Check out gameplay footage from Crysis 3 below and read about its PC requirements here.