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curl-6 on 12 February 2015
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Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

They're fundamentally responsbile for the failure of Wii U.

Sony and MS don't just want 3rd party support, getting support is arguably their primary focus. Its gotten to the point they compete for advertising of multiplat games. They've been doing bundling of 3rd party games as well.

Nintendo's strategy has been a Mario game in every box and they get a niche exclusive on occasion. Nintendo did go to Sega for exclusive Sonic games and that was ultimately a terrible idea.

They are not solely reponsible for the failure of third parties on the system though. The third parties did a great job of messing that up themselves.

But Wii U has 3rd party games that were well reviewed. Maybe you're giving them less credit then they deserve?

And again, Nintendo didn't do enough to encourage 3rd party support. They left and Nintendo didn't seem to mind.

Well reviewed perhaps, but still almost all late (meaning people already had them on other systems) or gimped somehow. (So there was no reason to get them on Wii U if you had other options)

Did Nintendo give them an ideal platform to succeed on? No. But they didn't give them an impossible one either. Third parties can't entirely escape the blame for their own products underperforming.