| Mythmaker1 said: Nintendo-published on Wii, January-September: 8 (Released in February, April, April, June, June, June, August, September, respectively) Nintendo-published on WiiU, January-September: 6 (Released in March, March, July, July, August, September, respectively) As you can see, while the Wii did have 2 more titles released, it hardly had an overwhelming advantage to account for its massively better sales. So, I think, we can safely say that the slack there was picked up by Wii Sports, no? Also, 3DS sold at a loss when the price dropped to $170, US, while the DSi sold for a profit at $125. So the difference in hardware pricing was at least $50. And I doubt the circle-pad or the minor increase in system capability led to that. We can assume, then, that the 3D accounted for a good deal of that. And no, you can actually look at the charts and see that 3DS sales jumped after the price cut, well before the games you're talking about arrived. And let's compare again: 3rd-party games published on Wii, January-September: 56 3rd-party games published on WiiU, January-September: 10 As you can see, third-parties did embrace the Wii to a far greater degree than they did the Wii U. |
You're just looking at number of games and not what games. Wii's launch window and the months following had, besides WiiSports, Wii Play, LOZ TP, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime Corruption in NA, supported by some smaller titles. It wasn't like Wii which launched with two real system movers, NSMBU and NL. There wasn't a steady release of the kind of games to keep up momentum, like Wii had.
DSI was a DS version which released years after DS' launch though.
The 3DS sales increased after the price cut, but the games were still not really there. Once the 3DLand and Mk8 released, it really exploded.
3rd party support one the Wii U is not how it is because of the gamepad. I haven't seen any devs give the gamepad as a reason why they are not supporting it. In fact, I tried to find the Gearbox interview where they said they couldn't think of what to do with the gamepad, Like you said, and all I could find was articles of them saying they liked it.
That comment came from Ubisoft, I found, Wii u's biggest 3rd party supporter and when they said it, it wasn't in a negative way.
