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Soundwave on 15 December 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

The Wii U wasn't designed for third parties.

No third party asked for another PS3/360 level machine to be their go to console for the next 5-6 years, after already sapping that market for the last seven years. No third party asked for that game pad either. 

That would be like saying third parties for clamouring for another SNES level system by the late 1990s.

The Wii U as a hardware system was yet again designed for Nintendo's own needs. They are the ones who over fetishize the concept of a tiny home console and lower electricity consumption, no one else cares. But the entire hardware itself is basically hamstrung by those restrictions and probably made more expensive as a result because it requires a lot of R&D to create such a custom, power efficient chip.

Yet Nintendo games neither use the processing power or Gamepad. A Nintendo console that was designed for Nintendo would be reflected by their games, just like it has been in the past.

And of course what Nintendo does is never good enough for third parties. Meanwhile they gladly did put up with the nightmare to program for that was the PS3. There's a blatant double standard, but unfortunately not everyone is able to see it.

It's not a double standard, Nintendo simply keeps making hardware that third parties don't care for or flat out can't work with. 

Their best bet was the GameCube but Nintendo self sabotaged that console by shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly and crippling the poor console before it had a chance. No one put a gun to Nintendo's head and forced them to make it a purple lunchbox and make bizarre development choices with virtually all their core franchises or conceed the FPS market to Microsoft when they had a good thing going on the N64. For every good decision they made with the GameCube, they inexplibly decided to make 1-2 bad ones. 

If Sony made the Playstation 4 into what the Wii U is (same chip, same emphasis on controller) third parties would pretty much uniformily embrace XBox One as their go to console and drop Sony support after a few years. 

The Wii U isn't powerful to anyone but Nintendo which is living in a time warp 7 years behind everyone else, the main difference now is the "casual" audience is no longer blue ocean either, it's a red ocean where their thunder has been stolen by other, faster moving and more sophisticated (marketing wise) corporations.