Next generation could have waited.

[zorg1000]

SvennoJ said:

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.

i didnt say that the hardware would be better or that developers should have waited a year to release those games, all im saying is that from a software point of view this gen could have waited a year or so.

i know that all generations have cross-gen titles in the early going but i can literally only think of one retail PS4 or Xbox One game to release so far this year thats not also on PS3 or 360, Infamous Second Son. At least 360 had Saints Row, Dead Rising, Elder Scrolls 4, Advanced Warfighter and a few other titles that werent cross-gen back in 2006. Obviously people dont mind since they are buying plenty of consoles to play these games.

As for Wii U, like i said, in terms of software it clearly was not ready to release in 2012 and had one of the worst post launch droughts of all time with Lego City being the biggest game fo release in the first half of 2013. They should have supported Wii longer with NSMBU+Pikmin 3(originally in development for Wii) as the holiday 2012 titles and had Lego City, Rayman Legends and Game & Wario as 2013 titles.

Wii U should have launched holiday 2013 when they had more software ready for it. Super Mario 3D World+Wind Waker HD+Nintendo Land(with more minigames)+ZombiU(seemed rushed and could have used more polish) at launch with Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze as a post launch title and Mario Kart 8 in the spring. This would have helped with all the negative publicity Wii U faced in the early going.