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oniyide on 14 July 2013
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Soundwave said:
zippy said:
oniyide said:
zippy said:
100 million install base, weak specs = no third party support.
Higher specs, small install base = no third party support.
Nintendo..damned if you do, damned if you dont.

OT-I will be buying Watch dogs, Arkham and maybe splinter cell for my Wii U. Gotta snap up the good third party games that are here.


wrong, Wii got alot of 3rd party support, ALOT or do you think all those games on the WIi were made by Ninty, WIi had more games than either PS3 or 360

Your right Wii did get a lot of 3rd party support, but what ratio of it was actually decent? A lot of 3rd parties released sub par efforts to cash in on its success, and games like Red Steel 2 and Goldeneye were few and far between.

Many 3rd parties used the "weak hardware" excuse to not bring certain franchises out on Wii, or even build an exclusive from the ground up to suit the hardware. I mean the sales were there, so they could have reaped the rewards. Now Ninty has the tools to create these HD experiences 3rd parties now bang on about low sales of the hardware. Nintendo cant win sometimes


Well I think it's kinda like a guy going on a date without his pants on, then realizing that was a bad idea, so he makes sure to wear pants on your second date, but you forget to wear a shirt on that one.

The Wii U is a new set of mistakes that Nintendo made, so it's not so much that they "can't win". Honestly I don't think Nintendo really cares to win this audience anyway, for them it's kind of a "nice to have", not a "must have", they design their hardware with philosophies tailored to their own company whims, and make a few minor concessions to the needs of third parties here or there.

For Nintendo to honestly compete for a lot of third party support, they'd have to provide hardware that's roughly equivalent to what the other companies are providing *and* then have a userbase to back that up. The GameCube got one of those right, the Wii got one of those right, but neither got both of them right.

The only third party multi-plat that honestly interests me on the Wii U is Batman and if there's no PS4/XB1 version, I'll probably get it for Wii U if I do buy it at all. I'm getting Wonderful 101, Super Mario 3D World, and Donkey Kong Country: TF this fall for sure.

This and in the case of GC I still hold that it got decent 3rd party support. Lot of multis that didnt run like crap and even some exclusives here and there.