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DerNebel on 05 March 2014
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Zero999 said:
DerNebel said:
Zero999 said:

it's an issue of stupid companies not releasing games on my system for no reason. I wouldn't buy another console even if I had the money because that would mean accepting the spit on the face those companies try to give me.

Fixed that for you. Seriously what do you know about the cost of AAA development? What it would cost to downport a game from the PS4 to the Wii U? How much it would need to sell on the Wii U to make money? How much it would sell?

Get out of your bubble Zero, third parties don't shun the Wii U because its the new cool thing to do, they analyze the market, assess the development costs and from that decide which platfroms their games would be viable on and for most developers a Wii U version of their games just doesn't make any sense.

Also, really? Companies are trying to spit in your face by not releasing a port on your console of choice even though that port would probably lose them money? Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous.

why do you even try to come up with all of this? we both know it's not true.

Right, I'm coming up with things, sure.

Cause naturally it is completely illogical to suggest that game companies assess before starting a project how they plan to make money with it and that part of that is looking into what porting/developing for each platform is going to cost them and how much they expect to sell on each platform. It is completely outlandish to suggest that a company would decide based on this, which platforms will be viable for its game.

The more realistic scenario is that game publishers just ask their magic 8-ball when it comes to deciding which platform their games should release on and it just so coincidentally happens that almost every publisher on the planet got a "My sources say no" as an answer to the question if they should release on Wii U.

Thanks Zero, your business insight is truly impeccable, I don't even know why I'm studying business at all when all I need to learn I can just ask you about.