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captain carot on 01 June 2015
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Tachikoma said:
captain carot said:


Just one question, which promises?
I actually remember exactly two that where really broken.

Project CARS release and Rayman Legends being exclusive.

Nope. there are effectively publishers to blame (EA), to some degree. But at the same time there have been so many other things to blame. Assassins Creed 3 wasn't such a bad port except for loading time. AC 4 was. Yes. But after AC3 already doing bad. And after Zombi U at least not selling good, probably worse than VGC shows.

One to blame effectively is Nintendo. They've done it their way. Now they are in a position they have to handle the consequences. Not only the consequence of the weakest hardware but as well the consequence of not having features at all more and more people want.

I know guys who'd still only buy exclusives for Wii U if it was on par because they want their party chat and achievements/trophies. Just two examples. Maybe the Nintendo fanbase isn't that much interested in that. But other  gamers are.

Zombi U was a new ip on a new system, it was never destined to sell large numbers thus it's a bad example.

AC4 lagged consistently behind even the PS3 and 360 versions, with siginificantly lower framerates often between 6-8 fps slower, for a game that struggled to maintain 30 at the best of times on the PS3 and 360, 6-8fps is a huge difference, so let's not jump the gun and call AC4 a good port shall we.

Then there was Rayman which was ready for release but got delayed for WiiU because it wasnt ready for other systems, then there was watchdogs.

Then there were large numbers of third party publishers/developers that picked up devkits from Ninendo after voicing their intents to make WiiU software, then never actually did.

You don't win user trust by shoveling poor ports and mistreating your customers, especially not when they're already going through a rough time with the platform holder, it is simple logic.


As said before, AC3 wasn't a bad port. Just loading times from hell.

AC4 was a bad port. Bought it because of Off-TV though. But that was a bad port after other Ubi games selling really bad. And not only Ubi games. If AC 3 or any other third party game had done well Ubi might have put more time and money in the hand for this port.

As for new IP's, though that game was much more expensive, what about Ryse for example? Or Knack actually?

There where other games as well. Splinter Cell Blacklist from Ubi is one.

Not saying that all thirds did a great job. Everything EA did was pretty weird. NfS MW just in time with the other versions actually might have done well. And releasing Mass Effect 3 alongside a cheaper Mass Effect Trilogy for other platforms was outright stupid. Then there's that strange Crysis 3 story. Crytek claimed they had it up and running for Wii U.