JEMC said:
The 90something % of the Fatal Frame IP belongs to Nintendo, I don't think it will count as a Third Party game.
OT: The "small number" bit is saddening. Ghosts is probably one of them, the other(s) will probably come from japanese devs which may or may not get launched outside of Japan. Maybe a Tales game or something. |
I don't find it saddening, hearing "small number of key" is what I really want to hear. Well actually, in a perfect world the system you own gets pretty much all games, like PS2 or SNES. But for Wii U right now in its life what I want is for it to get a small number of really good AAA titles, and for those titles to do well. The userbase is small. If it is flooded with titles, then many will be missed or forgotten. The system had about 30 titles at launch, but with only a couple million systems they can't all make money.
For me, my ideal scenario for Wii U right now is that it has strong 1st party titles and a solid group of high-end 3rd party multiplats from the key franchises. I look at the second half of the year and I see:
Pikmin3
W101
ZeldaWWHD
DKC: TF
SM3DW
Wii Fit U
Wii Party U
...and from 3rd Parties we have:
Watch_Dogs
AC4
Batman:AO
Splinter Cell
Rayman Legends
Scribblenauts Unmasked
Disney Infinity
Sonic: The Lost World
Just Dance 2014
These games are not shovelware. These are top titles from top franchises, and they span several genres, age groups, interests and styles. Personally Zelda WWHD, SM3DW, Watch_Dogs and Batman:AO are day 1 purchases for me. That's 4 titles... quite a few to buy. I also have several maybes in W101, AC4 and Sonic. I don't have any room in my time budget for more titles. The only thing I'll be able to consider are high-end AAA titles or maybe some cheap download time wasters. So what I want is exactly what was said. A few key 3rd parties. COD: Ghosts is a must-have for me, so if that's revealed as expected I'll have 5 games to buy and no room for anything else. I'd like to see 2 or 3 other key franchises land on Wii U this fall to help move systems, but anything else will fail because of the 1st and 3rd party heavyweights already taking up market space. If Nintendo can get the install base to 10 million this time next year, then there will be space for niche titles and lesser franchises.
