Battlefield 4 skipping Wii U

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KungKras said:

kupomogli said:

Suke said:
This sucks for the gamers, which is why I recommend Wii U owners to buy Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Show devs that you care about multiplats. The main reason you never see multiplats on Nintendo consoles is because comsumers only buy them for the first party exclusives.

Wii U owners, if you really want this game, show it, show Nintendo you want multiplats. Sign petitions, do what ever it take to get the word out. I may not be the biggest Nintendo fan, but I don't want to see Nintendo to be ignore like this.

This. 

Most people who own Nintendo consoles don't buy third party on them and they're the reason that the support on the consoles have been so poor and there's next to no support for the Wii U.

The Wii U has sold around three million consoles with Zombie U being the third highest selling game on the console with 380,000.  Only 11 games have sold 100,000 or more. 

Nintendo gamers bought a lot of third party games when their consoles were treated in an acceptable manner by third parties. When they started getting treated like shit, post SNES/N64, they bought less.

On the handhelds, where they haven't been given the middle finger, third party sales have always been healthy.

The NES and SNES sold well because they were the dominant consoles on the market.  Nintendo strong armed developers with threats that if they didn't remain Nintendo exclusive they wouldn't be allowed to develop future titles on Nintendo consoles.  This is the reason Sega licensed many games from developers like Capcom and ported the games themselves.

The Playstation was released and while it wasn't supported much in the start, it sold very well.  Developers jumped ship from Nintendo's monopoly on the market and went with Sony.  That's where the third party support faltered and Nintendo really only has themselves to blame.  Because Squaresoft wanted to develop Final Fantasy 7 on the Playstation, Nintendo tried their strong arm tactic on them and that's the reason that Squaresoft didn't release games on Nintendo consoles for such a long time and why you saw them give good support to Bandai's Wonderswan.    

Developers started to support Nintendo again late that gen or during the following gen.  The Gamecube received a lot of console exclusives, but none of them sold very well.  The Wii had a lot of console support from developers like Sega, EA, and Activision, and a little bit of support from everyone else.  A few good exclusives from multiple companies that also didn't sell well.

So regardless if developers gave Nintendo the middle finger, there was still support of good Gamecube exclusives and good Wii U exclusives which didn't get sales from the fanbase.  As Nintendo fans if you're telling the developers that you're not going to buy their games, what do you expect them to do?  You still expect them to release games in the future for you continue not buying them?

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I forgot to add this, but Nintendo fans barely support third party developers on the handhelds as well.  There's more third party support so you would come across that assumption, but the fact of the matter is that across all current Nintendo consoles, there's very little third party support, especially compared to how much support first party titles get. 

Here are the sales of games from the original DS.  I'll point out first off that New Super Mario Bros sold just over 29 million copies, but look at how many games until the sales drop below a million?  The DS has 130 games that broke a million while the Wii has 141.  The 360 has 173 games and the PS3 has 171 games.  Without even going through the list, I can guarantee that there are far more first party titles in the DS and Wii lists than there are in the PS360 lists.  The PS360 games cost more at launch as well.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/