Bethesda Open To Possibility of Bringing Skyrim To Wii U

Nintendo intends for its upcoming console Wii U to have better support from third-party publishers. In an article in the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine, Bethesda's Pete Hines says that bringing its epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to the Wii U is a "possibility." While he stops far short of stating that it will happen, any interest from Bethesda in Wii U is certainly good news for Nintendo.

After being asked about bringing Skyrim to Wii U, Hines responded, "It's definitely a possibility for the future. We'll look at any platform that will support that games we're trying to make, but that's the key thing -- the console has to support the game as it is designed."

However, don't get too excited. He also seemed to take pains to stress that porting a game as huge as Skyrim is no easy task: "The more changes we have to make to a game the less and less palatable it becomes because making a game is an enormous process. Just doing 360, PS3 and PC - I don't think people understand the amount of work that goes into that. All of the localization you have to do... all of the testing you have to do... on every platform in every language... It's a pretty huge undertaking."

Our take? A Wii U port of Skyrim is still a long shot. Still, it's encouraging that a Bethesda's is open to the possibility.