So much for late ports being a good reason for low sales

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oniyide said:

Zkuq said:

oniyide said:

Zkuq said:
It's a new gen and the ports are late by what, a couple of weeks max? Pff, this is ridiculous.

thats fair, but that doesnt explain the sales of games like COD Ghost and AC4 on Wii U versus those of the PS4/xone. Despite the fact that Wii U was already on the market for a year

Third party games don't generally do very well on Nintendo platforms. The userbases are different, there's a lot more competition on Wii U already, and it's a reasonable assumption that the release of a new console so close to the launch of those games made a good number of people wait for the next-gen version when they were going to get a next-gen console anyway (in which case you have to remember that the audience for CoD/AC on PS3/X360 was huge, and not so much on Nintendo consoles).

I agree with just about everything but the bolded. their wasnt anything for most of the year but yet software still didnt move. Hell i would go so far that their isnt much in the way of competition NOW. until Mario comes out. We got Pikmin that didnt light the charts on fire, same with W101, Zelda was a remake and bundled, Sonic, which little people bought. But I guess its audience. People wont like this but maybe some of these 3rd parties would not be wrong to pull support

Agreed.  Games like Zombie U, Sonic, Rayman all shoudl have sold much better considering how they were built on the system from the ground up. 

The ports to a lesser extent I can accept bad sales.

At the same time as you mentioned if the Nintendo games did not light up the chart is is obvious why the 3rd party games didn't either. Kind of sad when some of them have been decent efforts and a few good ports too.