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

[zorg1000]

oniyide said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

so because Wii U didnt get THOSE games you claim that it got no support? No thats not how it works. Just because it didnt get the games YOU wanted doesnt mean it didnt get games. that is factual wrong. And outside of TR and DS none of those games were on a Ninty console prior so you and I know they were never coming.

Its funny its not like the Wii got that much great launch games either. It was the same for hte most part ports of last gen games and if they werent ports they were crap versions (looking at you Dead Rising and Tomb Raider) but no one cared because Wii was winning.

I didn't say I wanted those games, but it's just a fact that Wii U got a tiny fraction of 3rd party games that released in its first year. Wii U had decent day 1 3rd party support but clearly none of them had any long term goals with Wii U otherwise they would have had games planned beyond day 1.

Game development takes more than a few months, if 3rd parties ever had any plans to support Wii U beyond day 1 then games would have been in development for it, to my knowledge pretty much none of the major 3rd party games of 2013 outside of a few in the final months were ever planned to release on Wii U meaning that the majority of 3rd parties never had any intention of releasing their games on it.