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teigaga on 11 October 2012
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CCFanboy said:
teigaga said:You miss my point completely. By not offering such titles Nintendo wouldn't really be in competition with the other platform, in such a situation those who seek the best of the best 3rd party titles will either have to pick up PS4 or 720 (similar to how this gen panned out). I don't doubt their ability to move their own software but without a wii sports, or wii fit quality title on the horizon to draw in a new audience and with the core gamer arguably satisfied with their current systems or at least content, I don't see the Wii U fairing as well if they fail to get Next Gen-3rd party support. Thats not to say they'll fail, just underperform.


I want to see your source. Do we even know who is supporting the other two systems yet? Do we know everybody who is on board with wii u? I know bethesda aren't on board with anything yet.

You seem to think because developers are on board with ps3 and 360 now they have some level of allegiance to them. That they would stand by them no matter what. Well if wii u sells like hot cakes and continues to after the others get here there is no way third parties would make the same move they did with wii. Especially if they see a healthy number of sales the first year.

Third parties are loyal to money. It really depends how the public react. If any of the new systems (and this includes wii u) get off to a slow start we would see the same thing that happened with ps3, 3ds and vita.

Nothings concrete, we are all just speculating here but my thinking is as follows: So many developers have confirmed they're working on Next Gen/Unnannounced systems, go look at any of their job vacancies and its written everywhere. Starwars 1313 is confirmed for an announced platform. Developers like Square are showing of their nex gen engines, showcasing visuals beyond what most people believe the wii U is capable of. When you have developers showcasing non  pc-centric games on very Hi-end PC's it seems pretty evident to me they're indending them for future, more powerfull platforms.

In terms of Wii U support, developers have had the dev kits in their hand for a year and a half, so it does worry me that none of the above have been announced for the system. I agree 3rd parties are loyal to money but that didn't garuntee support for the wii, if the wii U system can't easily support their games, yet they've got 2 combined platforms which will (720/ps4), they may not feel the need to port games down to the wii U. And the perception of the userbase nintendo attracts is also against them as proven by Bethesda. 

To date the Wii U doesn't have a single big (commercially big) 3rd party title announced for it next year. Some may have complete confidence that developers will one by one announcea wii U versions to launch day and date as on the other platforms, but I'm not so sure. The ps3 and 3DS have had strong 3rd party support from the get go,  games began development on the systems long before sales could be judged. I believe the exact same applies to the both 720/PS4 and I believe developers will treat them as a combined market similar to how they have this gen, meaning support is garunteed.

Of course if the Next Gen systems are announced and they're only marginly more powerfull then the Wii U then it'll be a different story.

This is obviously just speculation/opinion, so do yourself doubt that the ps4/720 have a ton load of 3rd games in devlopment right now, games which are being developed with one of the 2 being the lead paltform?