Dev says companies talked about canned Wii U games rather than new ones at DICE, more

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RolStoppable said:
In order to cancel games, they need to exist in the first place. What we've seen between E3 2012 and the Wii U's launch was a clear statement from every important publisher that they won't commit to the platform. There was a list of 2013's multiplatform games floating around, showing that around 75 % of those games would skip the Wii U. The Wii U's fate was decided upon before the system launched, therefore it's hard to believe in any of the hearsay from the article in the original post.

Also, the big budget third party game that was expected to sell millions and has only sold tens of thousands so far is an unrealistic claim for anyone who uses common sense. No game in the Wii U's library fits this description.

People who think that Japanese third parties will give the Wii U better support than Western third parties are delusional. If anything, you should expect even less from Japan. Remember that the Wii held a market share of over 66 % among seventh generation home consoles at the end of 2007. That is dominance, but it didn't lead to any worthwile support. Neither from the big publishers who sell worldwide nor the small ones who are strongly focused on the Japanese market.

Sales don't matter. Since the Wii U started badly, everyone who had hopes for good third party support can bury them. Just know that the situation wouldn't be any different, if the Wii U had sold above 4m units by now. Good third party support was never going to materialize and everyone who remembers the whole test game strategy on the Wii knew that.

Waiting for japanese third part support will be a suicide. But collaborating or promising a western launch with better marketing could push some of them to develop for Wii U. With that I mean devs like Atlus, Namco Bandai or Level 5, or games from established franchises like DQ or MH and try to increase th appeal to the west.