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Play4Fun on 07 September 2013
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Mythmaker1 said:
Play4Fun said:
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?

 


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.

Wii Play? A system seller? That's...highly questionable. The fact the game came free with stand-alone Wiimotes had a lot more to do with its "sales" than the game itself. And you've gone from "steady release of first-party titles" to "steady release of first-party system sellers." I'm not going to debate a point with someone who keeps moving the goalpost.

And, regarding the DSi, what does that have to do with anything?

For the 3DS sales, outside of the holiday season (which is completely inappropriate as a point of comparison with sales during the rest of the year) sales remained basically flat. After the holidays season, sales were right back where they were before.

And here. It took me all of ten seconds to find it. The point is, developers aren't able to easily integrate the Wii U gamepad with their current offerings, which discourages them from porting games. And because of the added expense, along with the notably smaller audience on the Wii U, there isn't much incentive to do so.

Wii play sold  28 million. Don't know what you're going on about. Something doesn't sell that much just because it was bundled with a controller.

I guess i should have pointed out to you that a steady release of first  games in a consoles' first year needs to include system sellers among them since it seems you actually couldn't figure that out yourself.

What does DSi being a DS version that released  after DS had been on the market for a while have to do with anything? Need I point out thatlater iteratio can be made cheaper because besides they can cut costs in certain areas? Look at the upcoming 2DS for example.

I'm not even going to bother wasting my time going on about 3DS sales with you.

Congratulations, you found an article where two devs said they couldn't figure out what to do with the gamepad. It surely shows that Wii U is not getting big third party support from a large number of devs  because of the gamepad. You even posted about how Wii had more support in the same timeframe than Wii. So apparently the Wii's totally new controller, was easier for devs to use than the gamepad whch is basically a standard controller with a screen. Wii U is getting the kind of support it's getting for the same reason as any past Nintendo consoles. Having a standard controller wouldn't have changed anything. 

But it's obvious you wont see sense regarding this issue, so hey, keep desperately pointing to the gamepad as the Wii's main problem like people who pointed to 3DS' 3D then sut up once that was proven not to really be the case.