What went wrong with the Wii U Version?

It's not the AAA teams which are suffering, it's the Western mid tier developers which have almost died out. The West is now being increasingly left with a polarised industry; a healthy indie scene and a healthy, albeit very risky, 'AAA' high profile sector, with not much being left inbetween.

What has Sony ever done to you?

Rockstar, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Bioware, 2K, EA and many more are all continuing to make massive AAA titles.

Despite the newer hardware, the Wii U version has the worst graphics. That's pretty ridiculous in my opinion, given this massive development team :/

I guess they're the last ones to make the simpler AAA games, rest has moved on to AAAA games. Maybe we'll see some AAAAA games too next gen.

Nintendos games are generally cheaper than most AAA titles dude. Zelda and Metroid are the only real standout pricey titles. Nintendo is one of the more frugal companies. It's Sony and Microsoft who spent shit tons on risky projects. Microsoft eventually gave up but Sony is still going at it.

its a good thing you told me cuz I didn't know that >_>

as for risky project well Wii and WiiU are far riskier than the "just add more power" safe risky

the AAA games are not dying just the studios

Resident Evil
Assassins creed
COD
those are like the only games I can now think of that really need such big teams

Uncharted
TheLastOfUs
Tomb Raider
Deus Ex
Killzone
Infamous
Little Big Planet
Resistance
Heavy Rain
Borderlands
Darksiders
Hitman

you know what I want to say
ALL those teams are like 100people at most.

so yeah, big teams seem to be dying out. but the AAA games keep coming

Nintendo takes risk, but mostly on hardware. They haven't taken risk on games in a good long while.