superchunk said:
EA at two previous E3s (2011 and 2012) stated on stage that they were going all in with Wii U with unprecedented support. (Ubisoft said similar) PS3 got a late ME2 port. It was heavily advertised. Sold well. Madden13 and FIFA13 on all other consoles launched on same date with same upgraded features for 2013. NFSMW on all other consoels same date with marketing. Special note. All four of EAs games on WiiU were late ports with ZERO extra content. No other publisher did that with their late ports for WiiUs launch. They all provided free DLC or exclusive features. EA in early 2013 has blatantly stated (this was even before NFSMW released) that WiiU will not be getting future support from them. Now lets compare the other publishers/games you listed. Ubisoft released: Ubisoft said they had hoped Wii U (the console) would have sold more, but the sales of the games were as expected based on the console's sell through. The only negative to come of this was the obvious timed-exclusive Rayman was delayed to match its Ps360 release. Yet, Wii U still has exclusive features and even a badass online portion for free out now. Ubisoft 2013 support is strong with same next-gen titles and already same marketing. How about BatmanAC? Was a normal late port launch which actually included improvements of the older version (unlike any late ports from EA). Full DLC content along with a few new special features including solid marketing. WB is obviously happy with WiiU overall as we got Injustice on same day. Sure its lacking DLC at first, but that is obviously tied to other timing issues as they probably were barely able to get the game itself caught up to speed with others. DLC will come later. Then WB is still having same date and support for all its future games as well. Activision. Additionally, other Activision games with future releases all have WiiU support as well.
So yes, many launch games, including Nintendo ones, did not sell millions yet. But every publisher except EA has strong future support or even publically stated they know its due to Wii U's slower hardware sell through. They are all betting on the next iterations of games to be profitable as Wii U hardware rebounds with the release of plentiful software during 2nd half of year. Anyone who can look at the stark contrasts between EA and every other publisher and still say its not EA just being a rabid fanboy towards Nintendo... is clearly good at ignoring blatant facts. Now, this does not mean Nintendo didn't break a promise to EA to cause all this... but I think that by 2014 it will be solely EAs loss and they'll return as a result. |
Well all right then. If Ubisoft is so supportive why did they delay Rayman Legends for 6 months to make it multiplat. Why not just release it as exclusive give those other consoles a late port?
And you shold not forget EA tried to bring some of their franchises to the Wii back in the day, just like Sega and Ubistoft. But most of them failed. And yes Ubisoft was/is supportive, but when the next generation of consoles arrive the will have to cut Nintendo out for the most part eventually.
And what about Bethesda, Square Enix and Take Two? None of their major releases got Wii U ports. No Bioshock, Dishonored (which could have utilized the Upad really good) Tomb Raider, GTA V etc. for the Wii U. I mean why does no Nintendo "fan" bitches about them?