Safe To Say 3rd Party Support From Wii U Is Pretty Much Gone?

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KungKras said:

ICStats said:

KungKras said:
Of course it's gone.

The industry will jump at any opportunity to not support Nintendo consoles. They were looking eagerly for any sign of weakness from Nintendo to drop support, and they got it in spades with the Wii U.

Nothing forces them to make games for Nintendo in the first place.

If they wanted it to fail they had the opportunity to just release no games from the start.  Nothing would flop faster than Nintendo launching Wii U with no 3rd party.

Nothing forces them to support the PS4/Xbone like they do either. They could have given all platforms equal support and then seen what happened. Does it look like the Wii U get equal support to you? They gave it some bones so they wouldn't miss a large market if it suceeded.

They were afraid that the Wii U would carry Wii momentum and be successful.

Wii got close to jack shit for support because the industry bet (and hoped) that it would flop. People tend to forget just how much the industry had to get dragged kicking and screaming into supporting the Wii.

Nintendo won't get equal support because they don't make equal consoles.

Being something in between generations in terms of power, Wii & Wii U really need games that are optimized just for them.  Devs can't just port their PS4/XB1 games straight to Wii U, and at the same time nobody is going to rush to buy PS3/360 ports on Wii U either.  To be appealing, devs need to take a risk to make something unique to the Wii/Wii U.

Wii built a market, and incentivized devs to make some unique content for it, different from PS3/360.  Wii U market is way too small; not even Nintendo can make good money on Wii U.