twintail said:
tripenfall said:
The thing is it would have sold. Crysis 3 as a launch game on Wii U (and from all reports it was technically far superior to the PS3/360 versions) would have been a system seller and put paid to the misinformation at the time of launch that Wii U was weaker than the current Sony and Microsoft consoles.
As big as Nintendo is EA is not an emeny you want to have, like them or not they are one of the biggest publishers in the world. When EA released Fifa 14 on the 7 year old Wii but not Wii U and didn't release Madden in PAL territories at all you knew that they had the shits proper.
Nintendo need to have a complete rethink on their relationships with 3rd party devs and companies like EA and Ubisoft are critical to the success of NX.
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Not really especially because it would not have been a launch game. Not only did Cry3 launch after the WiiU had launched, but they only really started work on it after the other versions. Besides, the project was canned because of poor relations between EA and Nintendo, which was not really a thing until like a year after the WiiU launched. By the time Cry3 would have come to WiiU, no one would have cared.
Nintendo does need 3rd parties more than 3rd parties need them. But I reckon Nintendo will design the NX in such a way where if their core base remain the only ppl buying the product it will be ok.
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Sorry yes you're right it wouldn't have been a launch game, but in the "launch window". Wii U was out December 2012 and in March 2013 one of the
devs made this quotoe -
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/crytek-explains-why-crysis-3-wii-u-had-to-die/1100-6404763/
Just a shame. In the early days of a console momentum is very important. When would be consumers see the open slagging and bagging of a console by a major publisher it sways people. Lets hope NX has better luck.
