Something that a lot of gamers and blogs fail to realise is that this gen has been a real blood bath and how many studios and publishers don´t exist anymore or have really been hit hard (Atari/Infogrames). Just take a look at Sony, in 2013 they shut down 3 of their own studios. We have also to consider how some attempts have really lead to nowhere like EAs Dead Space series, a series that really flopped with it´s third installment, the same goes for Lost Planet 3.
The point is while in the beginning of this gen (360/PS3/Wii) there was a huge enthusiasm across the board including studios and publishers this time around there are far less studios and publishers around and the remaining ones mostly stick to their old guns. While blogs and fanboys really try hard to convince people that there actually is a lot of enthusiasm all I can see is that most publishers are very vary about the new gen this is confirmed by their concentration on sequels and most of the time their unwillingless to take more risks. The most obvious reason is the unprecedent amount of cross-gen titles which makes clear that they actually don´t have such a great confidence regarding next-gen systems for the immediate future.
The result is many sequels and concentration on established franchises and ironically despite all the complains WiiU actually is getting the most important ones like CoD, Batman, Splinter Cell and AsCreed. At this point only UbiSoft is trying to establish a considerably amount of new IPs and surprise games like Watch Dogs will be also available on WiiU. Of course there is EA with there weird stance but this has more to do with their cooperation with Microsoft and launch of the Xone than anything else. I would be really surprised if there won´t be another Fifa and Madden on WiiU starting next year.
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