Betrayed by EA and Ubi? Its not EA's and Ubisoft's job to lose money on a platform to help that platform
Funny, cause they took up that job for the PS360.
The ps360 sales justified the development
And before that the Ps2 SW sales and 360s user base justified their development as well.
Wiis SW sales? Sucked for 3rd parties. Wii Us user base? Terrible for 3rd parties.
Contradictions, contradictions everywhere.
I seem to recall Ubi making a bankload of cash off of Wii titles (Raving Rabbids, Just Dance, Michael Jackson Experience). Those titles counted for about 40 million copies sold. I'd say that justifies Wii U development.
Even EA can't claim it didn't profit off of the Wii. EA Sports Active sold almost four million units, and the Tiger Woods games kept selling around a million units year after year. The MySims franchise sold about 1.5 million units the first two years and one million units with the third entry, but I guess gamers quickly got tired of that series getting overmilked. Either way, EA banked off of the Wii too.
So if PS360 sales justify Ubi/EA taking losses on their predecessors, then EA's support really should be "unprecedented" like it was promised. I'll give Ubisoft credit for sticking with the Wii U thus far, though not releasing Rayman Legends in the Spring was stupid.
this is all true but here's the thing, are those type of games going to sell on the WIi U? Just Dance hasnt done anything, Raving Rabbids, dont think they are gonna do another one of those. ANd i think EA is simply done making those types of games. Those were the types of games that they made money on for Wii. I dont see that happing again for WIi U at least not right now.
But my point is that if you use the argument that PS360 sales for EA and Ubisoft justifies gambling on PS4 and X1, then the Wii U deserves a fair shot based on the money it made for those publishers too. Would they have the same success? Probably not, or at least not yet until more WU's find more homes, but like with all young consoles, it's a chicken/egg sort of thing.
Wii had a very different audience than PS360 did, the types of games that did sell on those consoles were not the type of games that sold on WIi and vice versa. They dont seem to be making those WIi type of games anymore, but i do see what you are saying. Hell maybe they should just start making those types of games.
