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oniyide on 26 September 2013
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burninmylight said:
oniyide said:
burninmylight said:
oniyide said:

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.

I should have been more clear in expressing that very last sentence. Even if they don't bring over the AAA's like AssCreed and Mass Effect in the future, then they should at least make some of the games that were successful on Wii and see if the audience is still there. I'd personally prefer the former, but I'm not your typical introverted brat of a hardcore gamer that thinks every single game is supposed to appeal only to my personal interests.  I think the whole "all the casuals completely abandoned Nintendo" mantra is way overblown, and those games that brought Ubi/EA a ton of money before can still be profitable for them now, albeit more modestly.

See i agree with this. But the i also believe that they do believe that the casuals have left the system. ANd IMHO they are not that off the mark. If you look at the sales for the Wii series like Deca Sports, Carnival games, even Ninty's own WiiPlay you'll notice that every subsequent release has sold less than the one before, so can you really blame these guys for not wanting to make anymore of them? Especially on a new console that is selling at a much worst pace than the more popular console? I dont. Its not about appeal or not its about numbers and these types of games have gone down in sales. Even JD has peaked and i dont even wanna look at the WIi U sales for JD4. Yes they can make money but people bought those games because of they had the system, not a lot of people have WIi U.