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oniyide on 01 June 2014
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padib said:
oniyide said:
padib said:

What's your opinion on ZombiU, and to a lesser extent W101 and Lego City Stories,  by the way?

As for effects we would see, what are you refering to (the topic is a hypothetical, I'm not sure how we'd see the effects on something that hasn't happened)?

I think they have terrible sales. its quite jarring. Especially since 2 of those games had bundles, how much less would they have sold without it i wonder. Esepcially in the case of Lego where the much inferior and much less advertised 3ds version sold more.

Even if they some how come back, it wont make much of a difference. I thought at first thats all they needed. But lets look at last years COD and AC games. THey sold terrible on Wii U but great on PS4 and One. Which is kinda sad since those were launch consoles with pratically no userbase. Hell you cant even say there wasnt an established base on Wii U since it had previous versions of those series. I would be surprised if they can even catch AC3 or CODBLOPS2 numbers.

At first you said it was unlikely Nintendo would get exclusives for the U, do you still think that, after being reminded Zombi U and Lego City Stories came out for it already. Or do you think their sales were so terrible that it won't happen again?

What do the multiplats explain about exclusives though, that there is no market for Nintendo exclusives?  Do you believe that there is a genre that can do well on the U that isn't either violent or a party game?

Thats exactly what im saying to answer your first question.

 As for the 2nd and 3rd? IMHO yes and no. Yes there is a market but it would have to be a modest game, modestly budgeted i mean to say. IMO the WIi U userbase is too small for 3rd parties to jump in and start making exclusives.  I think the genres that do well are the ones that NInty make, but the thing is even if 3rd parties tried to replicate that they wont gain much because why not just buy the actual Ninty game? Hell its not even like 3rd parties are making the same types of games Ninty are making in the first place. And the they ones they have been making have done mediocore to terrible.