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S.T.A.G.E. on 27 December 2013
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Cobretti2 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Mnementh said:
oniyide said:
 

the seeds have already begun to be planted. Outside of Watchdogs i cant think of any next gen multiplat game thats coming to WIi U and even Watchdogs is cross gen

What next gen multiplat games exist so far? All I know are cross-gen games like FIFA or COD.


When last gen consoles lose the majority of the major support the Wii U can kiss the support goodbye. As I told someone before its blindly be obvious Nintendo is going to bite the dust with third party for coming out with a subpar powered console. Its also an underpowered console with no massive following so the third party doesn't even have incentive to create tailor made games for the Wii U. 

Take heed that one of the lead developers of the Elder Scrolls online said the PS4 and Xbox One were not on the list of consoles to get the game. It was meant to be PC only, but when they found out that the consoles were up to snuff as far as power was concerned they were more than happy to make a console port of the game. The Wii U will NOT get anything because its power is not on par with next gen expectation but rather slightly above last gen and its Nintendos fault for not consulting with third parties when they developed the Wii U. Bethesda said it best I think despite the fact that they do make buggy games, but Skyrim was awesome. 


1. Wii had a massive following and yet fuck all was made tailored to the console. The best Wii games were actually PS2/GCN ports liek RE4 and Godfather. After that it was all waggle controls. 

2. They did consult 3rd parties. The problem here was they consulted EA only with their unprecedented support. EA were prasing the console at E3. Then somehting fell apart which we won't argue on why and what as it has been argued to death. 

 

Nintendo will never get the same third party support even if it had more powerful hardware without doing other things. They need to either expand their studios, buy out some 2nd parties and MONEY HAT 3rd parties to develop exclusives to try and bring people to their console to build up a bigger user base of gamers (not casuals). Basically they need to become what Microsoft was when it launched its console and wanted to establish itself in the market (without the huge losses obviously).  They need to start this now and work on building those relationships for next gen with ignoring EA;s input and listed to developers that matter. 

1. Unbisoft tried and Sega did their best and both failed. COD didn't sell great at all. Third party core games could not sell on a 100 million selling console even when it was destroying its competition. As I said before, the WIi was not a core third party stomping ground. It was good for first party and Ubisoft broke the casual market making hand over fist with Just Dance. Thats what they want.

2.No. After E3 2012 it was clear that they consulted 3rd Parties properly only after the device was made. The media warned them about the coming of the other consoles and the rumored graphics they would have and Nintendo passed it off as a rumor and said "lets see what happens". They will once again be the odd man out because of it.

Nintendo is forced to moneyhat third parties because they KNOW third parties will not downport to the Wii U once the last gen consoles stop getting support. They screwed the pooch for themselves. Nintendo would've had ports but they jumped the gun. Nintendo DID NOT KNOW how powerful next gen consoles were expected to be by most of the top developers and publishers. They went cheap again and tried to get the tablet market and shave off the core market which already existed on the 360 and PS3 not realizing those gamers are mostly tired of the current gen and want next gen things. The head of Ubisoft was telling all console developers to come out with newer and more powerful hardware but Nintendo was ten steps ahead of them and had their own plans.

Look up Reggie on CNN when he was talking about how powerful the Wii U was and the reporter told her about the rumored power of the coming Playstation and Xbox and Reggie shrugged it off and said " We'll see". Nintendo does their own thing and they will be treated like the antisocial child at the dance. Nintendo will be have the smallest library once of games and they will be forced having a lot of second party titles on their dime. Essentially speaking Wii U is going to be like the Genesis. Because of the fact that their competition had all the third parties they will be forced to make more first party and buy second party to buffer their third party. This is how the Genesis survived agained the NES and SNES.