Why is this a surprise? I think its been assumed by most people who aren't doomsaying the Wii U that it wouldn't have Unreal 4 support. I assumed that, like the Wii before it, power wasn't going to be the Wii U's focus and, as such, automatically assumed that the Wii U wouldn't have access to Unreal 4. It should have been assumed that Unreal 4 was going to be for PS4, XBox 3 and PC, not the Wii U. Hell, he pretty much spells out what I just said when he pointed out that the Wii U has Unreal 3 support because Unreal 4 is focused on more powerful hardware. tl;dr: Expecting the Wii U to have Unreal 4 support is like expecting the Wii to have Unreal 3 support.
don't really know what engines are or what their significance is, but i saw this from IGN's website. http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/29/unreal-engine-4-frostbite-3-will-not-support-wii-u
Interesting. From what he's saying, it sounds like Epic themselves don't find it worth the money to make games for the Wii U, but the engine can still be used by others.
