Rockstar says Wii U version of Grand Theft Auto 5 ‘up for consideration’

There’s never been a mainline Grand Theft Auto game on a Nintendo console, it just doesn’t happen. Well that could be about to change.

Recently IGN sat down with Dan Houser from Rockstar Games and asked them a bunch of questions about the upcoming game, including whether or not a Wii U version (and a PC version) could be happening.

“Everything else is up for consideration. That’s all I can give you. The main thing is we are not… we are a third-party publisher. We’re not Nintendo, we’re not Sony, we’re not Microsoft. We love all of them in different ways.”

Grand Theft Auto IV and its subsequent expansion titles hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and of course the PC version some time later. If Grand Theft Auto V didn’t come to the PC we’d be really  surprised, if it doesn’t come to the Wii U then we wouldn’t be surprised.

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo America president is hopeful though telling MTV that “The folks there [Rockstar] have said very nice public comments about the Wii U. In the end, it is Nintendo’s responsibility to have a large installed base, to have development tools that help the developers and publishers create great content, and essentially create an environment where teams like Rockstar can bring their very best content to our platform, and if we do that hopefully the very best content throughout the entire industry will show up on Wii U.”

Whatever will be, will be.