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Soundwave on 09 December 2012
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CCFanboy said:
Soundwave said:


I stick by my statements. Nintendo has stated and implied several times that they are trying to get a more core audience on the Wii U and having games like CoD and AC3 are "checking that box". 

The problem with this philosophy (sorry Reggie) is that no one cares that the Wii U finally got franchises that everyone has been playing on other platforms for like several years already. 

In effect having ports of these games are nice, but they're about as effective as a knife in a gun fight. Would I rather have a knife than nothing at all? Sure? But I'd rather have a gun too, lol. 

That's Nintendo's problem is they have no gun in this fight. 

If they strategy is to appeal to only Nintendo fans ... great. We've seen how that story goes with the GameCube. 


The major hole you don't account for is that you can make the same argument against the others. All they will have on launch is late ports of multiplatform games. So why is it any different with them? What exactly is the incentive for picking up the games on other consoles?

The problem with your logic is you're operating in a fantasy land where Nintendo has the same credibility with the audience games like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty and what not attract. 

That is Microsoft-Sony-country and Nintendo's basically let them have that audience all to themselves for the last 6-7 years. You may say "well that's not fair! what about Sony and MS". Sony and MS don't need to prove anything to that audience, they own that audience and get the benefit of the doubt. That's not fair, but guess what. Life isn't fair. 

So Nintendo showing up, even with day-and-date ports of a lot of these games isn't going to do much. 

Nintendo needs to have *clearly* better versions of these games to get people's attention and get them thinking "oh hey ... wow I guess this is a lot better on the Wii U". Which shouldn't be that hard for hardware that is 7 years younger, lol. 

Nintendo bent over backwards to make this system as small in size to the original Wii and as low of power consumption as they could, but in the process IMO they basically killed any chance of giving third parties a box that could easily provide an outlet for higher end ports (ie: 1080p, PC asset ports, etc.).