Gamerace said:
We've yet to see how 3rd parties respond. Frankly aside from Ubisoft, I think the launch support was tiped at best. A lot of games, but all ports of old games or uninspired affairs. Nintendo has had to buy games from TT (Lego City) and Platinium (101/Bayenetta). EA and Activision - the two biggest 3rd parties have been particularly poor in their support of WiiU. And this is launch window when support is usually best. There's little announced from 3rd parties going forward and I expect few downports from MS/Sony's new systems. WiiU will probably get most of it's ports from iOS after support for 360/PS3 dries up - that would make the $99 Ouya a direct competitor. I think the WiiU is an abandonment of both core and mass market. It's basically back to GC audience - kids and Nintendo core. I'm giving it 50% more sales for Wii spillover effect and expanded audience but it'll also be hindered by Android tablet/gaming systems coming onto the market - often for less than half the WiiU price. |
tiped? Well, we can only judge off of what we have seen. As of now, they have more support than what they did at the start of last gen. As i mentioned in an earlier post, Nintendo will probably receive ports from whichever console is the lead console. I mean Sony in most cases was receiving ports from the 360. I'm not advocating by any means that Nintendo will get a port from all the 3rd party games, but I do think that they will get all the major ones, COD, Battlefield and the like. I don't see the other 2 consoles being so much superior to the Wii U that the U can't handle a downgraded port unlike the Wii and HD twins. Also, I don't see any reasons for a port not to be put on the U by the time the other consoles launch given the install base. Were all working off conjecture here, especially not having any real info the other two consoles yet.