Soundwave on 18 January 2014
| StarOcean said: In this hypothetical situation would the Wii U still be supported? Because would Nintendo really want to port their Wii U games into another device that can run the games the same way? If so Nintendo would be doing a bad job at convincing people to buy a Wii U if they can buy a similar device for much cheaper. Though I could see Nintendo making a tablet if they wanted to |
Yes, Wii U would be supported at least through 2016. It would probably actually help the Wii U because Nintendo could go ahead and make high budget games like X and Zelda U without having to compromise or cut the budget of those games, knowing they'll be able to get extra sales from those games with a Nintablet port later. So they're not just stuck with the small Wii U userbase.
Projects like Animal Crossing U for example could also be developed in unison for both the Wii U + Nintablet at the same time, saving dev costs and giving Nintendo two userbases to sell the game to instead of just one.
