Mark Rein says that Nintendo's new handheld just doesn't have the technical capabilities to support Unreal technology.



Joystiq had a conversation with Epic's Mark Rein recently in which he made abundantly clear how Unreal will work on the 3DS. The short answer? It won't.



"The second Nintendo releases a piece of hardware that can run our engine well, we'll be on it like water on fish...If we felt it could run [Unreal Engine] and deliver the kind of experience people license our technology to build, we'd be on [the 3DS]," Rein says. Check it his full comments from Joystiq's interview.



There's no two ways about it. Looks like all those Marcus Fenix/Samus Aran fan-fic writers will have to keep their strange obsession in writing. Star-crossed lovers, indeed.



For more of our recent 3DS coverage, you can learn about the history of the handheld's development, downloadable games coming to the system, and the recent news of Netflix arriving on 3DS.