| Fusioncode said: So I've been seeing a lot of comments lately about how the WiiU has been steadily outselling the XBO worldwide for the last few weeks. Some even think the WiiU will end up outselling it lifetime. For the sake of argument let's say the WiiU does end up beating XBO and takes 2nd place this gen. Will this fix the 3rd party situation for the WiiU? No. Because it does not matter. 3rd parties only care about one thing, how many people buy their games. We have enough data and hard evidence to show us that WiiU owners buy very few games that aren't exclusive to the platform. Despite how the XBO is selling people are still buying games from EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc. And that's ultimately all that matters. Even if the WiiU magically ends up second this gen it won't get anymore support than it currently has. Because people still won't be buying any games not published by Nintendo. If you need anymore proof of this then just look at the Wii. Excellent sales but nonexistant 3rd party support. |
This is a sort of Catch 22. Ubisoft burned its own bridges with WiiU owners with the whole Rayman debacle. Others have not actually released genuine new games on the system, just dated ports that were never going to sell anyway. To top it off, system owners of Nintendo will usually not buy third party unless its a genuinely good game which introduces even more pressure on developers as derivative garbage like W_D won't sell on HYPE and nothing more.
Moreover, many WiiU owners also own a fully functioning gaming PC... at which point they have even less reason to buy anything but Nintendo brand on their console unless its a game that really makes good use of the pad or cannot be played just as well with a 360 controller hooked into your computer.
