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Seece on 03 August 2013
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Cobretti2 said:
Seece said:
Cobretti2 said:
Seece said:

I wasn't talking about userbase size, I doubt you would have got a much better reaction from Nintendo fans on the Wii's 100 mill userbase. It's not up to third parties to build WiiU's userbase, remotely.

None of those games did ok and your reasoning is so poor "EA kicked Nintendo fans in the guy" dude the majority don't even know what EA is. It's all excuses as always.

It absolutely is up to them to grow their franchises on all mediums possible if they want to increase budgets to make a profit. 

Do you think the playsation would still be around if it wasn't for 3rd party support? The fact is 3rd parties hellped the userbase grown on plastation as it did on xbox this gen.

To call Nintendo fans stupid for not knowing what EA is is ignorant at best as the core woudl be adults that have disposable income and own multiple consoles. 

You're spot on, point out where I said differently?

I didn't say Nintendo fans were stupid for not knowing who EA were, I said outside of the forums (and we're not as large a group as you think compared to the hundreds of millions who have bought gaming consoles) nobody is likely to know anything about EA or their antics.

Evidently if they don't see opportunity on a platform they're not going to bother, given take two seem to know what they're doing lately with their franchises I think they know better.

What I find amuzing is that you talk about 100s of missions of people yet the Wii U hasn't even sold 100s of millions of units. The people who own the WIi U atm are most likely 90% NIntendo core, these are the people we are talking about. Most of them know EA's antics hence why they got fuck all sales.

How will they know what the opportunities are if they do not try? Why did developers back the original playstation over N64 (apart form moneyhatting)? many franchises jumped ship that were stellar hits on the SNES and the fanbase would have been there if the games come to the N64.


Because they're not impressed with what they've seen (regarding sales?) and that relations between third parties and Nintendo are poor (Nintendo don't try remotely here, they and fans just expect third parties to support the system) you realise Sony and MS have huge evangelism teams that exist soley to woo third parties right? They make an effort. Lastly, you're just spouting out a load of 'what if's' 'how will we know unless they try'. Yeah, not good enough, third parties shouldn't take such risks.

GTAV is gonna sell 25 mill plus on PS360 (and PC, X1/PS4 should they come) even if they could make a small profit on Wiiu, it's not worth the time and effort when they're selling so much elsewhere.

At the end of the day though this is all just discussion. It's evident third parties for the most part have already made up their mind, and that is that WiiU is not a viable platform for them, end of.

@ Zero - WiiU had an exclusive  third party zombie game and it sold poorly. Now imagine how it would have done if it was on PS360 and PS4/X1