Bethesda/Gearbox point out why they don't support Wii U

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curl-6 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

ironmanDX said:

Nem said:
The online on Nintendo is just as good as the others. The onlie persistant worlds they are trying to do on ps4/x1 will flop hard. There arent enough players to populate all those games.

Wow, that's a good point... Will there be enough players? I mean, for the start of the gen no way. Will it change the further we go? It looks like a lot of Wii people may pick up the PSONE though but how many can't be guaranteed. The casual/core user base line on the Wii is unknown really...

Looking at the sales of the Wii the core base was extremely small, but because of the size of the marketshare first party sold better. Third parties lost out worse than ever.

Core games that were well made and not highly limited in appeal did well on Wii; Monster Hunter Tri, COD World at War /Modern Warfare/Black Ops, Goldeneye 007, Resident Evil 4/Umbrella Chronicles/Darkside Chronicles.

The audience didn't tolerate half-assed "test" games like Dead Space Extraction, that's all.

All of the call of duties sold on the Wii dont even amount to one sold on one of the HD twins. Thats how badly COD sells on a Nintendo platform with a majorly casual community. Monster Hunter is made for that audience, think Pokemon...just more mature. Your standards for sales are low for Resident Evil, especially on a platform that sold 100 million. The original Playstation sold a little over that over the Wii in Sonys first year in gaming and the first Resident Evil sold more than all of the Resident Evil games released on the Wii.

The audience was comprised of mostly non-gamers. The true gamers were extremely minor. This is what people found out about the Wii.