| zorg1000 said: ya i agree, Wii U had a horrible post launch drought with almost every exclusive getting delayed. They should have supported Wii a little longer by having New Super Mario Bros U (renamed NSMB Wii 2), Pikmin 3 and Lego City Undercover as late life Wii titles and delayed Wii U to Fall 2013. Major launch exclusive could have been Super Mario 3D World, Wind Waker HD and Nintendo Land, this would also have allowed them to release the Deluxe bundle at $299 from the start. The majority of PS4/One games are either remastered ports or cross-gen titles, if they waited until this fall to release then we could have seen more exclusives and 8th gen only games hit these consoles. |
The hardware wouldn't have been any better by delaying the launch.
Devs would be bleeding money for a year sitting on titles.
Most people don't buy a game every month, or more than a couple in fall.
Too many launch titles means nobody makes a profit.
Sales would start at 0 this fall, shifting 10 million in a month is not realistic.
Selling any faster than it has this gen is unrealistic, why wait?
Cross-gen titles have and will always happen, porting is a good way to get to understand a new system.
Anyway you're free to wait until the 2nd year, it's not like this transition period is different from any other.
The new consoles were overdue, people were starting to lose interest. The hardcore started moving to PC, the casuals to mobile gaming. The WiiU might have done better coming out a year earlier with Skyward sword as a cross gen title.
