Wii U is now 1 month old and has sold 1.8 million units. How is it doing?

[DanneSandin]

theARTIST0017 said:

DanneSandin said:

theARTIST0017 said:

DanneSandin said:

theARTIST0017 said:
Nintendo needs games. They need to win 3rd party support and over the years we've seen Nintendo slowly gain back support they've lost (Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter, etc) but we need more. Imagine FF XV on Wii U! The next Metal Gear game. Nintendo needs to do some serious thinking because if they don't, PS3 and Xbox 360 are going to continue getting the games, and PS4 and Nextbox are going to continue where those left off. So its on Nintendo now. Its easier to knock down a tower than build it, but they better build fast cause its a short time frame, and games take 1 1/2 - 2 years to make.

Man, I hear ya! They need that 3rd party support! But I think they did the right thing publishing Bayo2 - I think that gives a lot of good faith. What they need is Western studios to back them up; I think Japan will be in their pockets this gen...

Exactly. Nintendo does fairly well in Japan but they need to do more there. Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Resident Evil, Tales of, Dark Souls, Street Fighter, Sleeping Dogs, etc I can go on and I agree they need to figure out what to do with the Western devs. Let me ask you a question, should Ninty shell out $ for support?

Well, they won't be able to outbid MS for an exclusive, but perhaps it wouldn't be such a dumb idea to pay SE to port Sleeping Dogs, or Ubisoft to port Watch Dogs... But I guess it would be cheaper, and easier, just to swoop up other projects the way they did with Bayo2. What's your take on the whole situation?

They wouldn't have to outbid them! If Mircrosoft and Nintendo both went to SE for exclusive rights to a game, I'm very confident that Nintendo would win the rights everytime because rpgs generally sell better on their systems anyway (of course Nintendo would offer some money too as I'm sure M$ would). 

And I totally agree that they should pay for those games. It wouldn't be dumb but smart at all. Nintendo for one should know that games like sleeping dogs and watchdogs don't generally sell well on Nintendo consoles, so with a little financial support Nintendo could get almost any 3rd party games the HD twins have.

As for the next statement on if it would be cheaper, well maybe you're right, it probably would be cheaper to do that. I mean they still have to oay for dev costs and publishing duties, but its to their benefit kind of win/win situation. 

 

Finally I believe Nintendo should do both, pay a little bit for 3rd party games, AND pull a bayo on other games. The only problem with the bayo idea is I can't think of any other game they could do that on.....

(Oh and Nintendo should open more in house dev studios. They apparently always find good talent :P

Yeah, I agree they should do both things, but as far as I know it's not the "Nintendo way"... And I agree that they should open more in house studios, but I read something Miyamoto said that there's a reason why they don't do it. They don't want to risk lowering their quality by flooding their studios with new people; That would mean learning all the new folks the way of Nintendo, and that would take up a lot of Miyamoto's time, when his time is already limited as it is...

What they really should do is to buy studios, and create "2nd parties" in the same way they already ahve got Monolith and/or Retro.