Emily Rogers: Ubisoft won't comment on Wii U version of Watch Dogs

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prayformojo said:

Fusioncode said:

superchunk said:
This means Nintendo needs to pay for it or its not happening. Forget it. I following Rol and only buying Nintendo published games.

And that's precisely the reason why 3rd parties are avoiding the WiiU like the plague. Why would they waste time and money porting a game over if nobody bothers to buy?

That is a bold face lie by them. You want to know the real reason why the Wii-U is struggling so hard to attract these huge third party publishers? It's because they can't release half games for full price and sell the other half via DLC due to Nintendo only throwing 32GB in the system. It's the same reason EA left. They wanted to screw people over with their microtransaction bullshit and cram Orgin down their throats. Nintendo doesn't allow for that sort of thing by choice, or design.

In a way, this is exposing the truth about modern AAA publishers. It's letting us see who's who. There use to be a time when the line of thinking was "come up with great original idea, make great game with as much content as humanly possible to entertain the gamer, profit". Now it's mostly "create product, market product, make as much profit as possible from product, repeat". The game industry has become the movie industry now.

It's basically Nintendo and indie devs that still do it the old way, the RIGHT way. Unfortunately, greed is taking over.

Its not a crime for publishers to want to make a profit and DLC is just an optional add on, you can be perfectly fine without it. I bought Skyrim for example and have no intention of getting its expansions. I have Steet Fighter IV AE and dont care about those stupid costumes, or this years update either. But DLC allows those who do to get them, to each their own, everyone wins.

DLC is optional and probably not even purchased by the majority of consumers so thats no Reason for EA or anyone else to skip the U. The platform just isnt economically viable for them yet, plain and simple.