Insomniac on why Fuse isn’t coming to Wii U, not ruling anything out for the future
Insomniac CEO and founder Ted Price recently said that he considers the Wii U to be more of a current-gen console. That doesn’t mean that he and his studio have no interest in the console, however.
In fact, Price himself is a fan of the Wii U, and believes high-quality Nintendo games will give a much-needed boost to the system:
“As a player what I would love to see is more of those games that I grew up with. Zeldas, Marios, Metroid – those are the games I look for from Nintendo, and I hope more of them come out for the Wii U.”
As far as why Insomniac’s latest game Fuse isn’t coming to Wii U, Price explained that the decision was made based on “bandwidth”. Fuse is the studio’s first multiplatform game, so the team wanted to avoid the problem of lacking resources.
“We have to be selective because it’s easy to start to stretch yourself too thin. So we’re careful about where we go. One of the questions I got a lot of early on was ‘why aren’t you developing for the Wii U?’ and the answer was simply bandwidth. We had to focus on delivering a great game on multiple platforms, but there’s a point where we had to make hard choices, and for us we needed to limit the number of platforms for FUSE.”
What about the future? Could we seen a Fuse port on Wii U down the line or any of Insomniac’s titles on the system?
“But we’re not ruling out anything in the future. We are a content creator and we want to reach as large of an audience as we can.”
