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S.T.A.G.E. on 24 November 2012
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RolStoppable said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Um....after this year is over it will affect their relationships with third parties. They are wasting their headstart pandering to an all ready s atisfied audience, the Nintendo fanatics will sellout the Wii for the rest of the year, but when next gen comes out everyone else will be up for grabs, thats when we'll see what else the Wii U has got.

If you take development costs into consideration, it's very unlikely that the Nextbox and PS4 will have many exclusive multiplats in their first year on the market. Most of the games are going to be on the 360 and PS3 as well, so likely on the Wii U too.

Also, if you truly believe that the Nextbox and PS4 will be really powerful, then you should also expect slow starts for both consoles. $500 consoles aren't going to fly off the shelves and people aren't interested in gimped $400 models.


Don't get me wrong, but lets face it the Wii U is going to be praised for its exclusives. When the other consoles next gen begins the majority of the third parties will be siding with them, because you can push the limits of the new engines and everything will be more powerful and fluid. You're right most of the multiplats will be on the PS3 and 360, but the 360 is pretty much spent when you look at first party and we havent heard a peep from Microsofts new studios. The PS4 is sounding like its pretty much half way there and almost ready to come out of the oven at this same time next year. Nintendo needs to get people behind what the Wii U truly stands for and a launch full of current gen multiplats will not get people ready for that. For those on the fence because they already have a current gen console, that will keep them on the fence. As I said the majority of the people buying the Wii U will be Nintendo fanatics, so its smart for Nintendo to keep the console count limited to keep demand up. 

People expected the PS3 to sell very, very slowly after they heard about its price, but it outsold the 360's first year didnt it? Yes, it did. The PS4 and 720 will be expected to smoothly run the new engines that we've seen tech demos for. They know the consoles are expected to be high in power but we also know they will also have to accept launching at a loss and eventually break even after a couple of years. Again, the Wii U will need to be sold off of exclusives, because as everyone knows Nintendos first party is always king when it comes to their consoles, not third parties. On the other consoles, its always free reign, first party or third. When Cliff Bleszinski spoke about the next gen consoles running the new engines he never uttered a word about the Wii U because he knew it wouldnt be powerful enough, his words were meant solely for the PS4 and 720.

Ubisoft, themselves even admitted that making casual games for the Wii helped them afford developing more powerful games for the PS3 and 360. That should tell you something. When Nintendo heard that they definitely must've felt it.