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pokoko on 10 December 2013
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osed125 said:
pokoko said:
I'm not sure what people are mad at the OP about or why the PS4 and XO are being brought up.

The simple fact of the matter is that Nintendo is behind the 8-ball because they HAVE to make up for a lack of content from third-parties. Sony and Microsoft do not. That is an important consideration.

The situation right now is that potential customers for the Wii U (excepting multiple console owners) have to like Nintendo games more than Sony/Microsoft content COMBINED with third-party games. In more blunt terms, they have to like Nintendo games more than they like playing a wide variety of games or any of the (many) genres that are underrepresented on the Wii U.

It's become clear, I think, that a large number of people have decided to give up Nintendo games rather than give up on the diversity offered by the other consoles. Granted, it looks like 2014 is going to be MUCH more diverse for the Wii U but that's following a 2013 that brought very little to the table that would excite someone on the fence.

Personally, I'm curious to see if Nintendo is going to be able to pull another big (non-platforming) franchise out of the hat for now and the future. Unless they're comfortable with being niche, they're going to need to diversify.

Of course, the question now seems to be, are Wii U going to buy into any new IP or do they really just want more of the same?

You always talk like the Wii U is a purely console for platformers, and yet the system only has Rayman Legends, NSMBU, Sonic Lost worlds and 3D World as platformer games (you can count NSLU but in the end that's a DLC for NSMBU). What about Pikmin 3, Monster Hunter, Zelda WW HD, Wonderful 101, Lego City, NintendoLand, Wii Fit U, 3rd party games that are on the console (like AC III and IV, Darksiders II, Need for Speed, Call of Duty etc); are those platformers?No they aren't

If you want to include the known 2014 lineup, only Yarn Yoshi is a platformer, the rest are other genres.

That's not what I'm saying or what I said.  My point is that platforming is probably the only major genre that it will "win", where most of the fans of that genre will pick the Wii U over the others.  Those who hold another genre as the focal point of their gaming experience will probably look elsewhere first.  Those who want diversity will probably look elsewhere first.

I also pointed out that 2014 looks like a much better year in that regard, though we still have to see how some of the bigger third-party franchises will settle.

I think the Wii U would have benefited greatly had they been able to get some of that 2014 variety into this year.  Only ZombiU, in my opinion, really got the attention of consumers who fall outside the faithful Nintendo circle.  Bayonetta 2 or X would have been great marketing tools for the Wii U while it was still trying to forge an identity.