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gabzjmm23 on 18 June 2015
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Werix357 said:
Soundwave said:
Nuvendil said:
I think it's less of a "we could sell more on x platform" and more raw numbers concerning what money Nintendo can spend and remain profitable. Nintendo clearly underestimated the money needed for HD development and with pressure from the shareholders to hit profits no matter what, Nintendo's budgets can only be so high. Smash had tons of cash tied up till end of hear last year. Same with MK8. XCX, Zelda, and SMTxFE have big budgets as well. If the Wii U had more sales and some kind of third party support, Nintendo could be more liberal with spending. I think this whole gen has suffered from this initial poor planning and lack of understanding of what they were getting into.


Well that's the other thing. They can't just be making like a high budget Metroid game just to make the very small Wii U userbase happy when development costs are so much higher today.

It's just not a realistic expectation. 

The moment we saw sustained poor Wii U sales, people really should have known that there was going to be a real consequence to that down the line. 

Expecting the Wii U to have the same level of support from Nintendo as say the Wii did is just not realistic. Especially when the games cost more to develop. 

But I do think they have to allocate their big IP carefully too. An Animal Crossing game takes 3 years on average to make, if they just "waste" one on the Wii U, that means the NX won't get an Animal Crossing likely until mid-cycle, which is probably not something Nintendo deems suitable. 

You both hit the nail on the head. Nintendo now realize that HD development takes more time and are most likely starting development on games for their next console/s so they don't have a repeat of the Wii U and 3DS launch's. Oh and going with common hardware and good development tools for their next system/s is a given if they want 3rd party support.

i think good development tools - this is required. and Nintendo should listen to 3rd party support (mostly Western devs). As this impacts there isn't any games outside Nintendo wanted to release.  Since HD takes time, surely they need a ton of developer studios to create games but end of the day, they would be limited and pushing AAA new IPs to success is really difficult. 

Nintendo need 3rd party support on their next console, if they can pull the crossover games and fund a few 3rd party developed games they should be able to. Imagine no football game for WiiU, Konami has PES, why not NIntendo try to collaborate with Konami to have a PES WiiU version.  It would sell in Japan.  It will attract the western WiiU owners as well.  But Nintendo being Nintendo. They should admit that 3rd party developers need the SDKs that can easily port PS4, X1 games to WiiU.  but there are other technical specs that need to consider which would always look the WiiU version the inferior one and sales would be bad.  

Nintendo come on, you need to wake up.  Support the Wii U on a 5-year plan like other consoles but provide more game variety while supporting it.  Nobody would buy your new console if you couldn't support properly the Wii U. 

I'm cool with my current Wii U game library, it is those single console owners that would really be pissed on droughts and too many meh games in between AAA and AA games.