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snyps on 11 January 2014
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chris_wing said:
snyps said:

I watched the video just now and can see your point.  That's an unusual case it seems.  Not most cases.  I would still not say it has trouble running it.  I play the game everyday on Wii U and it's glorious.  In the video i can't see the difference except numerically.

The game does look nice across the board, but the Wii U version runs the worst & I'm guessing sold the worst.  Couple that with the alleged SDK problems/headachs & you can see why most 3rd parties are backing away and leaving the Wii U.

off topic:  It's starting to feel like Nintendo requiring their own hardware to play their games is kind of like if Disney stuck with HDDVD and forced people to buy an HDDVD player if they want to watch their movies.  It just seems kind of anti-consumer to hold your games hostage on hardware that doesn't have any other real support.

This isn't the position Nintendo wanted to be in, you remember all the talk about the Wii U being a system designed for 3rd parties and all the promises Nintendo made about great 3rd party support.  This isn't how they wanted it to be.

It's not like it runs poorly.  It's not like it was a mess and gave devs headaches trying to fix.  Infact it's easy as hell to port 7th gen games to Wii U.  The "alleged" comments are just that.  We know nothing about the purported situation regarding dev size or scope of the project.

 

pertaining to your offtopic: to me, anti-consumer would be having to give up my touchscreen feature, lagless portability around the house, free online, a workable internet browser, and i'll stop there to not become tiresome and petty about all that Nintendo bring to hardware that others don't.