| Mazty said: Considering that 1/3rd of all Wii U's have been sold in Japan, what exact estimate do you think of Wii U owners will buy Metro for the Wii U? You also have to consider the extra costs for developing for a new platform, and specifically programming for the pad. In short, it's really not worth it when you consider the much wider and lucrative markets of the PC, 360 and PS3. Comparing the Wii to the Wii U is flawed as the Wii did not offer the same games as the PS3 and 360 and was being offered when all the consoles were relatively young. The Wii U is trying to directly compete against a market of over 140 million console sales, and that's ignoring the PC. State me the math to show otherwise plx. |
You are again completely ignoring the whole point of my post, which is to say that it's not about the current market. It's about where the market will be in 2-3 years.
Besides which, the game isn't slated to release until March. By then, it is expected to have an install base of 5.5 million or so, and even with Japan assumed to have 2 million of that, and that nobody in Japan will want Metro, that's still 3.5 million people to sell to.
Now consider that the extra costs for developing for a new platform will reduce costs for future titles developed for that platform, and is thus an investment. Experience with the pad will also help them to improve their future Wii U titles.
That you then referred to "lucrative markets of the PC, 360 and PS3" shows me that you really don't know what you're talking about. Why do you think that THQ is in a hole in the first place? Why are the tipped to be the next publisher to collapse? Well, let's look at their support for the Wii... other than a few select titles, their Wii games consist of low quality licensed games (like Ratatouille). Of those few exceptions, there were a couple of weak WWE games, Big Beach Sports (and similar), a forgettable racing title that was launched late (compared to other platform versions), de Blob, Deadly Creatures, Drawn to Life... and that's it. Oh, except for their uDraw thing. For the entire generation. And yet, they still saw a better net performance on Wii than on PS3, and comparable to 360.
Note that their best-rated game of all time on the Wii was "You Don't Know Jack", with de Blob at second place with 81.12% according to GameRankings.
The fact of the matter is, THQ didn't put in the effort with the Wii, and they're not really putting in the effort with the Wii U. And it'll only hurt them further.
