Will good holiday 2013 sales from the Wii U help bring 3rd party games to the system next year?

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ryuzaki57 said:

spemanig said:

It's no surprise that the Wii U is currently missing out on some amazing 3rd party multiplats that the next gen and even current gen consoles are getting. That being said, the Wii U's third party line up, at least compared to next gen consoles, is surprisingly saturated this holiday. More specifucally, the Wii U is getting every third party multiplat being released this holiday on next gen consoles (1) except for anything published by EA.

I think it's very clear that the Wii U will have a successful holiday from a hardware and first party sales perspective (2). However, how 3rd party games will sell is far more dubious. Of course many Wii U owners here on VGC will be purchasing multiplats on the Wii U, but will the masses?

Basically, my question is this: How well do you think 3rd party multiplats will sell on the Wii U this holiday, and how do you see this changing the Wii U's 2014 third party line up? (3) Will it get better, or will it get worse? Will third parties begin to flock, or will they flee?

(1) Wrong. It lacks Lord of Shadows 2, Lightning Returns, Murdered, Yaiba Z, Dark Souls 2, Dead or Alive 5U, SoulCalibur II HD and I might forget some.

(2) It's actually getting less and less likely if you look at the preorders. WiiU games aren't pre-ordered at all.

(3) 3rd party games sales have little chance to turn out satisfying. Current WiiU onwers will always prefer Nintendo games, and Nintendo has 4 or 5 of them until Christmas versus 2 last year. Non-WiiU owners will either purchase the games on the console they have or upgrade to next-gen if they want the best experience. In any case, it means that the audience for 3rd party games is not there and publishers are well aware of that now.

Go back and look at the first bolded section. It says next gen multiplats this holiday, which is true, the only ones skipping Wii U are EA games. U listed a bunch of PS360 games and not all of those are even coming this year.