| SunofKratos said: I must disagree z101: Pikmin 3: Will drive some systems but will not have a mario like effekt. Monster Hunter: Big in Japan but not so in the rest of the world. Plus its a port from Monster Hunter 3. Lego City Stories: New IP: Will it drive many systems or will only Wii U existing Wii u owenmers buy that game. Aliens: Multiplat. You cant get it for X360 and pS3 plus its no system seller. Rayman Legends: Greast game but not a big game. The onyl game i can see selling some systems right now is Wii U Fit but how will this work with that fat controller? |
I would say you have to look at it from a different perspective ...
Since before the Wii launched, Nintendo has been trying to only release information about upcomming games that are likely going to be released in the next 6 months; while there have been some cases where games have been delayed, it has been more common to have games (like Mario Kart Wii) get announced a handful of months before release.
These are probably not close to the biggest games that are being released for the Wii U in 2013, these are the big games that will be released in the first 9 months of the Wii U's life. As anyone who has watched console launches before knows, this is a time period associated with the "post-launch game drought" were few good games are released because the platform hasn't developed a userbase and it is outside of the holiday shopping season.
Obviously, some of these games will be delayed and some may not be great games, but the Wii U seems to have 6 to 18 strong titles releasing in their "drought" period; which is actually very good compared to most systems. I don't want to hype up any titles in particular but Pikmin 3, Lego City Undercover, Rayman Legends, The Wonderful 101, Wii Fit U, Game & Wario and Bayonetta 2 are all strong titles being published by Nintendo and it is likely that Nintendo will add a Mario Kart, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, or Mario game (along with other series) to the line-up next year; and I think it is difficult to say that is a weak line-up that will sell poorly.
The third party support is more questionable, but I think it is likely that a large portion of third party HD console games released in the second half of next year will have a Wii U version.
