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teigaga on 11 October 2012
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Viper1 said:
teigaga said:
richardhutnik said:
teigaga said:
They'll need to get the Big 3rd party Games current/next gen bridge titles like Starwars 1313, Metal Gear: Ground Zero, Watchdogs and Bungie's "Desitny" before I believe this.

Which of those titles isn't planned for this generation?  If they are coming out for this generation, I am pretty sure that the WiiU can handle them.

my concern isn't that the Wii U can't handle it, more the fact that Wii U dev kits have been n devlopers hands well over a year before any of these games were announced and yet none have been announced for the system. 

Far too many reasons why a Wii U version hasn't been announced to conclude anything.

1. Do they have dev kits yet?
2. Do they have enough dev kits to actually develop the game or just R&D?
3. Is the game engine ported to Wii U yet?
4. Do they have the resources and budget to include another console SKU?

You picked for games recently announced that could have any number of reasons why a Wii U version was not listed and you come to the conclusion the Wii U won't have good 3rd party suspport.  

When Batman: Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Darksiders 2, 007 Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Ninja Gaiden 3 and Tekken Tag Torunament 2 were first announced, they didn't include a Wii U version either.

Specially regarding Black Ops 2, we didn't learn about it for Wii U until way, way after the game was announced.


I havn't concluded anything, I simply said that until such titles are announced for the system I have absolute no reason to believe the system will have strong 3rd party support. Emphasis on the word "strong 3rd party support" having 6 month old ports will not suffice, upgraded or not. The wii had similar support at launch with ps2 ports with tacked on motion controls. As I said in my post, my concern is whether the system will recieve the next big thing, the games I mentioned are the ones recieving the hype. As of right now the system has none of these. 

Also don't forget that Treyach also supported the wii with their COD titles (Infinity Ward did not), so Black Ops 2 coming to the wii U doesn't mean much in regards to the system being strongly supported by 3rd party's.

In Regards to your 4 points, realise I'm talking about very big 3rd Party Devs. If they wanted Dev kits,  they would 100% have them, if they needed more, they would have more. This Wii U is no longer in prototype stage, its coming out next month and Nintendo have been handing our dev kits since spring 2011. The only reason why Wii U versions of bespoke titles have not been announced are:

1. There is no intention to bring it to thw Wii U (bad news)

2. Developers are trying to work out whethe to bring it to the Wii U (bad news)

3. They're hoping to suprise people (Not a smart move)

The Wii U's future in terms of 3rd party support is at the very least, unclear. So to rephrase my initial point, I will wait till the stance of 3rd party becomes clear before I believe the Wii U will fend off the 720/ps4.