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

[zorg1000]

oniyide said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

why would they need to have plans beyond day 1? the smart thing to do was put their games on the system see what happens then move on, and then make plans. ANd please it was beyond day one. Wii U still got a COD and AC game the next year. IMHO it probably shouldnt have gotten COD.

Do u not realize games take more than a few months to make? If u wait to see how launch games sell then u basically aren't releasing anything for a year or more unless it's a late/gimped port, which is essentially all Wii U has gotten from 3rd parties outside a few exceptions.

Yes Wii U got COD, AC, Batman for holiday 2013 but like I already said, it got close to nothing between holiday 2012 & holiday 2013. Outside of a few publishers, 3rd parties never had any intention of supporting Wii U.

Like I already said to soundwave, Nintendo is largely to blame for lack of 3rd party support due to not making the hardware they wanted but sales were not the reason for lack of support because most gave little to no support from the beginning. 90%+ of big 3rd party releases in 2013 skipped Wii U, they would have had to been in development already if these 3rd parties ever had any intention of supporting Wii U, they weren't which means most 3rd parties chose not to support Wii U long before sales became an issue.