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Blinker on 05 March 2014
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TornadoCreator said:
Blinker said:
TornadoCreator said:
noname2200 said:
If Watchdogs fails, third parties are done with Wii U.

 

Seriously, you don't get to decide if you're done with third party on a Nintendo console, the third parties decide if you're worth bothering with and most of them are questioning whether you're worth their time, largely because we, as a collective, never give them a chance. Look at the N64 and Gamecube sales, (Wii is hard to compare), Nintendo console owners buy first party and ONLY first party. If Watch_Dogs doesn't see at least comparable sales on Wii U as on other systems based on user base; (ie. similar sales to the PS4/Xbone, or approx 15% of the sale on Xbox 360/PS3), you can expect to see third parties disreguarding the Wii U entirely as nothing more than "another Dreamcast" and that will be a major shame.

Yeah, and I see several third party titles that sold well, especially on the N64.

If Nintendo owners didn't buy third party titles at all (specifically on the N64 and Gamecube), then games like Resident Evil, Sonic, Star Wars, Turok and so forth don't excist.

Resident Evil was ported to everything that would have it and has PS2 to thank for it's success. Sonic wasn't on the N64 and the games that appeared on Gamecube we're also on either Dreamcast or PS2, Star Wars moved wholesale to Xbox so clearly Gamecube wasn't good enough, and Turok hasn't be relevent... ever.

If it wasn't made by either Nintendo or Rare it didn't matter on N64, and on Gamecube nothing third party sold even half as well as it should except Soul Caliber, and even then it only sold well because Link was in it.

Apparently Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube was successful enough that they repackaged it along with the Resident Evil remake and Resident Evil Zero (both of which also sold a million copies), in a box set. Yes it sold somewhat better on the PS2, but there were more people who owned that console than the gamecube (they also ported the game to the Wii, so obviously Capcom wasn't that disappointed with the gamecube sales).

I never said Sonic was on the N64, but one of his biggest 3D success is still on the gamecube (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle).

Also Turok for the N64 actually saved acclaim from bankruptcy at the time (until they went of business in 2004). It wouldn't have had a sequel, had it not sold well.

And if your including Soul Caliber as selling well, then your excluding the other successful third party titles for the Gamecube like Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2, and the second Star Wars Rogue Squadron (though I imagine the third one selling poorly lead the series to becoming part of Xbox systems primarily). Not to mention other games on the N64 like Tony Hawk Pro Skater (didn't sell as much as the PS1 version, but that had more systems sold than the N64 anyway), and WCW/nWo World Tour and Revenge, heck the poorly received 1998 South Park sold a million copies on that system.

Don't even get me started on Wii. That systems sold a lot of third party titles, despite what you claim (over a hundred titles that sold a million copies on the Wii were third party).

You (like so many other people) claim that Nintendo owners buy Nintendo games and Nintendo games only, which as I have shown is technically false. Yes the primary games bought are Nintendo games, but until the Wii-U, some third party titles (gasp) actually did sell well on the N64 and Gamecube.