BioWare: Mass Effect 3 Wii U being ported by external third-party developer

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

lilbroex said:

Nintendo is not a classification of hardware. That statement alone is when I called BS on what they were saying.

The finalised dev kits just came out. There is no one really more skilled in the hardware than anyone else at the moment besides Nintendo.

 

This is like the Wii all over again. NFS Hot Pursuit was given to a 3rd party dev because they were too lazy to put in the effort and what came out was abyssmal. It was the same with the Sims. They didn't even bother to beta test the games.

Same with Activision and the call of duty games for the Wii.

 

This shows one thing and one thing only. They do not care anywhere near as much about the Nintendo customers. You can make as many exsuses for them, as you wish but they aren't doing this to the Sony and Microsoft customers.

Shinen seemed to indicate that prior experience on the Wii helps on the Wii U, but that, honestly, is neither here nor there.

This is not an independently developed game like the ones you mentioned. This is a port. This news - that BioWare would continue to focus on making new content - should be expected. You are overreacting.

I'm siding with lilbroex on this one. Outsourcing porting is usually a bad sign, it's only done if the developer no longer exists or is affiliated with you (as in Okami on Wii), or because the company really doesn't care about port quality (as in Orange Box PS3)

Of course, i'm actively in the process of re-evaluating my opinion of BioWare, but this makes me more wary of them than that damn torture droid with the flamethrower