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DerNebel on 14 April 2014
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spemanig said:
DerNebel said:

And that's how the Wii U would lose its last bit of third party support, what Nintendo needs to do is entice third parties to support the Wii U not drive them even farther away by setting ridiculous requirements for the third parties to release on the system.

No offense but this is a really bad idea.


How is demanding quality in any way a bad idea? And on losing 3rd party support, Nintendo doesn't have enough 3rd party support to miss what it would lose. The idea that Nintendo "needs" 3rd party support anymore is antiquated. Even if Nintendo had every multiplat that the PS4 and XBO has, it wouldn't matter because the Wii U will always be the last place you'd want play 3rd party games. There's always a better option. With the new Nintendo Seal, it would at least make that last option not as bad. The Wii U is past the point were losing more 3rd party games will hurt it's sales more. What Nintendo needs is a way to ensure consumers that the few it has left are of the utmost quality, because even if they managed to get all of the 3rd party support in the world, which realistically won't happen, the majority of them would still sell like shit compared to the competition.

You people may be used to and enjoy games that run and look like shit, but I'm not and it's got to stop. No offense, but if you seriously think that more games that reinforce how much more inferior the Wii U's hardware is to it's competitors is a better idea, then you're missing some screws upstares. 

You do realize that you just explained in your own post why this would be a horrible idea? The other versions will always be better and the Wii U version will always sell like shit compared to them, this is why your idea doesn't work. This plan of yours would not ensure higher quality of third party games, it would only ensure that the last few third party games disappear. No developer in his right mind would sign a contract like this for a version of his game, that he knows will sell vastly worse than all other versions, when he's not even sure that this will make sales of that version better, cause as you said the Wii U is the last place people play third party on (that and most people don't even care for the stuff you mentioned very much).

If Nintendo wants higher quality ports for their console then they have to make that console sell better, make it a more viable platform for developers, not demand that developers make better ports, they're in no position to do that and btw. one important part of achieving better hardware sales would be better third party support, cause believe it or not the only reason third party games do so bad on Wii U is because only hardcore Nintendo fans bought the system and one of the reasons for that is that there are hardly any games outside of Nintendos stuff.

Regarding your last paragraph, I will just ignore this petty jab at my sanity and say that every game that releases on Wii U reinforces how much inferior the hardware is. Why? Because the hardware just is tha inferior and it's not third parties job to somehow hide that power difference.