Bethesda wary of Wii U: ‘it doesn’t support our games’

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twesterm said:

melbye said:
Ugh, third parties never have a backbone when it comes to Nintendo-consoles. Always the wait and see approach and when they are ready to make games for it, it is already too late.

Can you blame them?

Making a AAA game is a huge risk with often little payoff.  Add onto that the fact that third party core games that aren't Nintendo properties typically don't sell well on Nintendo consoles.

Only because typically they've been garbage since N64, with a few exceptions.  Seriously, how many AAA quality 3rd party games can you name on the N64 or GC platform?  I can count them on 1 hand.  The good 3rd party devs left Nintendo for the PS1 due to game capacity and cartridge fees (cheaper to make games on PS1, with more gameplay options).  PS2 was already well entrenched by the time GC came out, so 3rd parties didn't make anything for it (much).  Things can be different this time around if devs get on board soon enough.  The game I'm most looking forward to on WiiU is a 3rd party game.  So is the game I"m looking forward to second.