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Nintendo had another stellar E3 event. Announced some awesome game and features for them. Now with all this good comes the bad. We really had no third party support. 

All we have coming out this year is:

Activision  - Skylanders Trap Team  - Oct. 5

Activision – Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark – June 24

BANDAI NAMCO – PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – October

Disney – Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition) – Fall

Little Orbit – Falling Skies: The Game – Sept. 23

Little Orbit – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – June 10

Midnight City – Costume Quest 2 – October

SEGA – Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric – November

Ubisoft – Just Dance 2015 – October

Ubisoft – Watch Dogs – 2014

Warner Bros. -LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham - Fall

Nintendo needs to sell a lot of consoles. Without third party support Nintendo is in bad shape. Most people would just buy an xbox one or ps4. how can anyone justify paying over $500 for two systems just to play Nintendo games? Also without third party support we end up getting delays on when Nintendo releases games. That is not going to help sell system at all waiting 3 months between releases. Look at right now. Mario Kart is out but what is next? We have to wait almost 5 month before the next Nintendo game comes out. Finally people would be more willing to buy a Wii U if they knew that big AAA titles would be coming to the system. Just Nintendo games alone are not going to help the Wii U.



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Still a good chance some other 3rd party games like COD will be revealed, and also some eShop games.

Regardless, yeah it's a poor scenario but it's still better than what the Wii faced. People who buy Nintendo consoles know that you're not going to have the best third party support, after all. It's why a lot of people get them as a "second console" for Nintendo games; something I expect to see happen more and more as a lot of the games shown this E3 release.



 

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What about Call of Duty and Hyrule Warriors?



 

okay..... ?? this thread tells us nothing new.



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This is like making a thread about the PSVita failing to sell. Come on guys, can we get some new creative threads? :(



OP lost me with the sentence "Nintendo had another stellar E3 event"

 



 

Wii U has been in trouble since day one, and it was going to take a near miracle to change that. E3 will do very little to change the commercial reality for Wii U, but when the titles that will be available, are exclusive, interesting, and unlike anything else on the market? It doesn't concern me. Wii U will carve out a niche and turn a profit eventually. With some luck, and some help from these announcements, it may avoid becoming Nintendo's worst selling console. As Conegamer said, it'll become a secondary console for quite a few Xbox/PS/PC gamers, and for multiple format owners like myself, it's an ideal machine to have.



We already knew Wii U had lost the 3rd party support. First, because of its design decisions (it's a piece of 7th gen tech). Then, because of the miserable 3rd party sales. That was a given already before E3.

But, on this E3, Nintendo made important steps to turn the tide and it really surprised me (which is not an easy task). They presented many new games, several new genres (which I don't remember Nintendo working on), bold game concepts (such as the non-linear gameplay on Zelda) and overall quality. Nintendo is definitely making a great effort to save Wii U.

The low sales produced a healthy impact on their attitude. Like the not so successful PS3 made Sony to brilliantly design the PS4. Now it's Sony relaxing and showing very little work at E3. All the work has been done by AAA 3rd parties and indies.

Anyway, Nintendo is now finally doing the right thing. Maybe in the short-term there will be no results. But, if they continue this effort and right attitude, they will certainly get them in the long-term.

Honestly, I don't know why people became so worried about Nintendo after this E3. With me it was the opposite and I think there's hope now for Nintendo to succeed. They haven't won anything yet, maybe the success won't come in time to save Wii U, but it will come (if Nintendo continues to do what they're doing).



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

Nintendo should spend some of that cash they're sitting on, It seems like WiiU owners aren't happy with the lack of support the consoles been getting.