{"id":12874,"date":"2011-07-12T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioshock-dev-has-no-plans-to-develop-for-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12874-bioshock-dev-has-no-plans-to-develop-for-wii-u","title":{"rendered":"BioShock dev has \u201cno plans\u201d to develop for Wii U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve been spending your nights dreaming of playing the next BioShock game on the Wii U, I have some bad news for you &ndash; Irrational Games&rsquo; Ken Levine has officially nixed that idea.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just to be clear, there are no plans. I&rsquo;m not saying it can&rsquo;t happen, but we have no plans to do any games for that platform,&rdquo; he tells<a href=\"http:\/\/wii.ign.com\/articles\/118\/1181645p3.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> IGN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re now getting to a place with Vita and what Nintendo&rsquo;s doing where that&rsquo;s not necessarily going to be the case, where you can play full-on hardcore games in bed with the lights out while your wife&rsquo;s asleep. I like that a lot. That means a lot to me,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;On the airplane? That means a lot to me as a core gamer, that you&rsquo;ve got two sticks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s so important to me. The fact that the Wii U has got two sticks&hellip; I feel it&rsquo;s like&hellip; It&rsquo;s a great year for the core coming back and saying, &lsquo;okay, have your touch screens, have your motion control, we&rsquo;ll try to make that work, and if you can pull that off it&rsquo;ll be really good.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But just not good enough for Levine, apparently.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15584-Bioshock-developers-not-interested-in-Wii-U-right-now?p=474006#post474006\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Bioshock dev&#8217;s thoughts on Wii U <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look Mr Bubbles, it\u2019s a core gamer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}