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Soundwave on 02 February 2015
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zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:


The launch title sales for games like Zombi U, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Batman: Arkham City, Assassin's Creed III were relatively dissapointing. 

Nintendo had a poor launch in general. I'm actually surprised they got another COD and AC and Batman game still. 

The system was doomed with the audience that buys the big gun third party games from day 1 because of Nintendo's design choice to make a system only roughly as powerful as a PS3/360 and not a full on generational leap ahead. 

In said scenario they're basically asking people who buy third party games (those who pretty much 100% own a PS3/360 already) to buy another similar system with fewer games at a higher price for no good reason other than "Mario". It was a plan that predictably failed miserably. Would anyone have bought a SNES/Genesis level system just as the Playstation/N64/Saturn were launching with a library starting at 0?

It's not just a "Nintendo thing". If Sony or MS tried the same stupid concept, they would find zero audience for such a system and would get minimal to no third party support. Sony can't get big third party support for the Vita, developers are simply looking at the install base and potential sales for their product. 

That's kinda irrelevant tho, oniyide said 3rd parties stopped supporting Wii U because of low sales, which is not true, the majority of 3rd parties gave little to no support from the start.

U are correct that Wii U was not a system designed for 3rd party success but that's a completely different conversation altogether.

Actually COD, AC, Batman, FIFA, and Madden are probably 5 of the top 8-9 third party IP on the market today. And Zombi U was a fairly decent launch game to go with that. 

It had decent support at launch. Yeah FIFA and Madden weren't quite up to date but the others were decent enough. The launch just was extremely poor and the games did not sell. It had better third party games at launch than the Wii, Vita, or 3DS did. 

Why should third parties continue to support a system that doesn't have a good outlook for third party sales? This is like the single guy blaming the girl at the bar for not picking on his half-assed advances at the bar and not giving him more time to get to know the real him. After 10 minutes of listening to the guy, can you blame the girl for wanting to go back to the table to sit with her friends? 

The onus was on Nintendo here to come out swinging and show from day 1 that they had changed their stripes, they failed miserably, in this business other companies don't have time to sit around and wait for one company to get their sh*t together.