Reggie interview: Wii U will have a very long life period + good third party support

[DanneSandin]

Soundwave said:

My personal feeling is third parties especially Western ones are a lost cause for Nintendo.

They should focus on smaller Western devs like Frozenbyte (Trine) by really making Nintendo Network a premiere choice for indie houses and building up more exclusive content through Japanese alliances. Get that Itagaki game, get Ninja Gaiden, work out more alliances with Square-Enix and so on.

Even if the Wii U can run say Star Wars 1313 ... if all the versions are $60, who's going to pay $60 for the Wii U version that doesn't run at 1080p and is missing several graphical effects? The 720/PS4 versions are predictably going to sell better. Even as a Nintendo fan, when it comes to my own hard earned money, I'm not buying an inferior version of any game just to support Nintendo.

I think that if 3rd party games sell well on Wii U western studios will be on board. 2K said it themselves; they're taking a cautious approach to wait and see how it'll fare. If games like ZombiU, Rayman, Bayo2 and the likes do well WiiU will get more support. I'm very sure ZombiU will do quite well (at the very minimum 1m, but probably 2m and up).

And why Star Wars 1313 isn't coming to WiiU is a mystery; it's coming to PS360, which WILL be inferior consoles.

But I do agree with you; Nintendo should get some exclusive 3rd party indie support AND get 4-5 3rd party studios to make games for the WiiU, so that we don't have any droughts. Mistwalker and Premium would be a great start!