zorg1000 on 27 January 2015
| Shadow1980 said: If third parties were actively shunning Nintendo, they wouldn't have even bothered with the minimal support they gave the Wii U in the first place. Third parties have a spotty track record when it comes to supporting Nintendo ever since the fifth generation, but there has been support nonetheless. If the system is conducive to making the kind of games they want and they can make money from releasing on the system, then they will support the system. They don't neglect Nintendo on principle alone, but rather for more practical reasons. Formats with limited space kept many games from showing up on the N64 and GameCube. Almost nobody bothered porting any major AAA 360 & PS3 games to Wii despite the latter's large install base because the ports would have to be severely downgraded due to the Wii's inferior specs and would thus lack any real commercial viability (it did get a few half-assed COD ports, which predictably sold poorly). And the Wii U is stuck in this limbo between the seventh and eighth generations. Few were going to buy a system for games they could get on their PS3 or 360, and the system wasn't going to get "true" eighth-gen games because it's not powerful enough to run them without severe downgrades, thus making it entirely reliant on first-party games. |
Can u honestly say they gave Wii U a shot before abandoning it? What relevant 3rd party games did Wii U get between holiday 2012 & holiday 2013? They basically threw out a few late or inferior ports that were destined to sell poorly then claim their games don't sell on Nintendo consoles so they could cut off support entirely for not making the console they wanted.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
