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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii U Only 5 Percent Of Developers Making Games For Nintendo

hsrob on 28 February 2013
think-man said:
hsrob said:
Several unanswered questions.

Are we talking teams or individuals? If individuals then the presence of the GTA V staff alone at the conference could bias the numbers against Nintendo :p

Is the 11% for PS4/Xbox combined or each?

Anyway it amounts to just less half the development resources of the current-gen consoles but I'm more concerned with the quality of developers rather than absolute numbers. i.e. i wouldn't be concerned if their 5% is the best 5%, but it's horrible if it's only the worst 5%.

I would imagine this survey is going to include 1st party developers too which is going to bias things in favour of MS (and Sony?) due to their North American base and large number of North American developers. Nintendo to my knowledge only has a couple of studios in North American.


Spose I should put source, but I included everything from the post so im unsure on your questions.

I didn't mean you failed to address those questions. I'm assuming you included the entire text, it's just the article left those points unanswered.

If the 11% is combined for PS4/ Xbox then all that tells you is that it is taking developers a while to move over to the new consoles.  I know the Wii U dev kits have been around longer but it's not unreasonable to assume the some developers would only start looking to new consoles when all three are ready.

If these numbers do include 1st party I would be very curious to see what the numbers would look like if first party was excluded.

Anyway, I guess I will just have to continue to wonder.



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kitler53 on 28 February 2013

lulz, headline looks way worse than it is.

5% vs. 13% vs. 11%. so wiiU misses by half-ish.



Billjw on 28 February 2013

That's over 125 developers from America only. I would have guessed lower than that. Japan makes the best games anyways



Conegamer on 28 February 2013

Not a huge shock when you consider it's a new system. I'd imagine figures for the PS4 would be much lower.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

wfz on 28 February 2013
pokoko said:
"GDC tends to skew toward smaller developers"

Yeah, this doesn't mean a lot.

And no mention of the PC?


You don't ask something that you know is universal.  Did you want the poll to ask how many of the developers breathe air as well? 

 

/trololol



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Pavolink on 28 February 2013

Are those real developers making real games for real gamers?



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Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

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noname2200 on 28 February 2013
Pavolink said:
Are those real developers making real games for real gamers?

Well over half of them are making mobile and tablet games so yes.



Player2 on 28 February 2013
kitler53 said:
lulz, headline looks way worse than it is.

5% vs. 13% vs. 11%. so wiiU misses by half-ish.

Actually it is Wii U 5%, X360 13.2%, PS3 13%, X720+PS4 11% (42.2% so far). Add ~58% working on mobiles for a total of 100%. So Wii U is getting almost the same western support as PS4 or X720 if that 11% is split 50-50.



noname2200 on 28 February 2013
Player2 said:
kitler53 said:
lulz, headline looks way worse than it is.

5% vs. 13% vs. 11%. so wiiU misses by half-ish.

Actually it is Wii U 5%, X360 13.2%, PS3 13%, X720+PS4 11% (42.2% so far). Add ~58% working on mobiles for a total of 100%. So Wii U is getting almost the same western support as PS4 or X720 if that 11% is split 50-50.

Poor Vita/3DS/PC. They get, based on your numbers, -0.2% of developer love.



Player2 on 28 February 2013
noname2200 said:
Player2 said:
kitler53 said:
lulz, headline looks way worse than it is.

5% vs. 13% vs. 11%. so wiiU misses by half-ish.

Actually it is Wii U 5%, X360 13.2%, PS3 13%, X720+PS4 11% (42.2% so far). Add ~58% working on mobiles for a total of 100%. So Wii U is getting almost the same western support as PS4 or X720 if that 11% is split 50-50.

Poor Vita/3DS/PC. They get, based on your numbers, -0.2% of developer love.

Well, I missed that Wii U gets 4.6%, not 5%. So they get 0.2% instead of -0.2%.