Nintendo Believes Third Party Developers Will Come Back To The Wii U If Sales Increase

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Mike_L said:

DerpSandwich said:
So it launched in 2012, now it's 2014 and the sales are starting to go up a little, if there's going to be a significant rise it will be holiday 2015, so at that point the third parties will deem it worthy and start development of games that will take two years, putting third part support incoming somewhere around 2017, or, the likely end of the Wii U's life.

That ship has sailed. This is a first-party Nintendo/indie machine. And I'm very okay with that.

But it's not. Only EA and Take 2 aren't supporting but if no one buys their games the other will follow. I'm a Wii U owner myself but I'm sick of people complaing about no 3rd party support and at the same time refusing to buy 3rd party games because "they're inferior to first party titles". :S

Putting crappy ports of games that are available on the other systems on the Wii U is not "support" in the way that the Wii U needs it.  If we're not buying the third party games that are there, it's because we haven't been given a reason to do so.  Any cross-platform game is just going to be better on PS4/Xbone, so the only real support it could use is exclusive games.  Ubisoft was the only publisher that actually was supporting it, and they stopped.  (Not that I can blame them.) 

There are a few good third party games.  But by the end of the geration they're not going to be what sold the system, because that's just the sort of system Nintendo made.  It's "develop exclusively or go home," and very few people want to do that.