Irrational Games Has No Plans for Wii U Titles

We may not be seeing Bioshock Infinite on the Wii U after all if the words of Ken Levine are anything to go by.

Despite appearing on a video marketing the Nintendo's upcoming Wii U console at E3 2011, Ken Levine says that Irrational Games has no plans to develop any games on it.

"Just to be clear, there are no plans," he said in an interview with IGN. "I'm not saying it can't happen, but we have no plans to do any games for that platform."

"We're now getting to a place with Vita and what Nintendo's doing where that'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's asleep. I like that a lot. That means a lot to me. On the airplane? That means a lot to me as a core gamer, that you've got two sticks.

"That's so important to me. The fact that the Wii U has got two sticks… I feel it's like… It's a great year for the core coming back and saying, 'okay, have your touch screens, have your motion control, we'll try to make that work, and if you can pull that off it'll be really good."

Levine says he has no interest in bringing Bioshock to the iOS, or creating any sort of casual title for the Apple devices.

"That's not the kind of game I'm going to make," said Levine.

"It's a core game. I love my iPad. The games that I play—Civ Revolution on my iPad, I play 100 Rogues on my iPad—I tend to play core games. I'm not a huge Fruit Ninja guy, it doesn't interest me.

"I respect what those guys do, and obviously they're able to tap into a kind of zeitgeist that is outside what I do, and I respect that a lot, but it's just not me. I'm a core gamer. If you're looking at me to make a game like that, you're probably hiring the wrong dude."