Soleron said:
Obvious rebuttals
- Nothing first-party that takes advantage of its power has been announced except maybe Pikmin 3.
- Then announce games with those possibilities in. The Wii/Kinect/Move showed you can get burned by waiting for potential to be realised.
- Those weren't the mistakes costing it sales, except possibly stable online matchmaking. And the state of that on Wii U looks the same as Wii, reading between the lines. We know Nintendo will abandon Wii U development in a few years in favour of 3DS+1 just like they did for Wii->3DS->Wii U in that order.
- There is no evidence that third parties are choosing to support Wii U, or that cross-platform titles with /next/-gen will arrive at the same time or same condition on Wii U as they will on PS4/X720.
- ZombiU is the best example of a third party game? Bayonetta is paid for, no one else is voluntarily bringing AAA-style Wii U exclusives. "We'll have many games that use GamePad" - then please announce them first.
All in all the article wants us to buy on promises which the Wii and 3DS also had plenty of. Rational customers will wait for games they want to buy to come out before actually purchasing. Hating on Wii U is also irrational, but making an informed choice not to buy just yet is sensible.
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If you buy it and use it for ZombiU and such games... there will be more of that kind of software. If you buy it and just use Nintendo Land and Just Dance 4, then it will soon be very similar to Wii.
The launch of each console tries to be diverse attracting both core and casual players and covering as many popular genre as possible. Beyond the launch the support starts to get dependend on the reliability of certain types of games having audience/selling on that console. You can expect Nintendo to keep making their games on it... but 3rd party support will depend on your choices.
Also, if you only care about 3rd party games, then why buy a new console when Steam/X360/PS3 will be able to play the bulk of them for a good while longer... unless you really want 1080p native, Gamepad for map/inventory, and a switch/change from Steam/PSN/XboxLive to MiiVerse.
