Nintendo Enthusiats: No Mr. Adelman, You’re Wrong About Nintendo’s Third-Party Situation

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

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. 

Again most of that is irrelevant, like I said u are correct that Nintendo did not make a console with 3rd parties in mind, but that does not change the fact that oniyides claim is incorrect.

If 3rd parties supported Wii U then we would have seen 3rd party releases in the post launch as well. Where was Metal Gear Rising, Dead Island, Bioshock, Colonial Marines, Devil May Cry, Saints Row, Grand Theft Auto, Metro, Tomb Raider, Dead Space, XCOM? These were all 3rd party games that released during Wii U's first year that were never planned to release on Wii U. Sales were not the reason Wii U didn't get these games like Oniyide claimed.