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Cevat Yerli of Crytek, the developer behind the Far Cry franchise and the hotly anticipated first person shooter Crysis, mentioned in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that they are currently developing a non-FPS title for the 360, and that they are “going deeper than many people assume right now” with the PS3. They also had the following to say regarding the Nintendo Wii:

Do you have a room for Wii R&D?

We have Wii development but it’s very small, it’s more like testing ideas. We don’t have a project at this stage… Nintendo Wii is certainly on the radar. We will do something for Nintendo Wii – the question is when. I think some time maybe in three or four years, but nobody knows when.

I would take this to mean that the Wii’s strong sales, not only of hardware but of third party software, are not going unnoticed by western developers. It’s further illustration, though, of how little these developers thought of Nintendo’s chances in the market with the Wii. Among Ubisoft’s pile of shovelware at Wii’s launch was an incompetent port of the Xbox game Far Cry. It would be nice to see these developers bring some really intensive FPS titles on the system, considering the obvious advantages of having an IR pointing device integrated into the controller.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz, via Cubed3