Infinity Blade might have been a slash-hit over on iStuff, but it won’t be coming to Android devices any time soon because Google apparently isn’t quite “evil” enough.
“When a consumer gets the phone and they wanna play a game that uses our technology, it’s got to be a consistent experience, and we can’t guarantee that,” Epic’s Mark Rein told GamesIndustry.biz in a recent interview. “That’s what held us off of Android.”
“If you took the underlying NGP hardware and shipped Android on it, you’d find far far less performance on Android,” added Tim Sweeney. “Let’s say you took an NGP phone and made four versions of it. Each one would give you a different amount of memory and performance based on the crap [networks] put on their phone. Google needs to be a little more evil. They need to be far more controlling.”
Another issue is the platform’s 50 MB size limit for apps. With Infinity Blade coming in at 850 MB, extra download fees would be incurred.
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