| zorg1000 said: not necessarily, he said how good and how numerous. Wii U only has about a half dozen somewhat major retail games per year. Most will agree that 2014 was the best year for Wii U and here are the major Nintendo published games it got that year. February-DKC: Tropical Freeze May-Mario Kart 8 September-Hyrule Warriors October-Bayonetta 2 November-Super Smash Bros U December-Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Compare that to the 3DS best year, 2013 February-Fire Emblem: Awakening March-Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity April-Lego City Undercover May-DKC Returns 3D June-Animal Crossing: New Leaf August-Mario & Luigi: Dream Team October-Pokemon X/Y November-Zelda: Link Between Worlds, Mario Party: Island Tour
Wii U had 1 Nintendo published game per quarter until the holidays in its best year while 3DS had 3 Nintendo published games per quarter with the exception of the summer. |
Alright.
But why are there that many more 3ds games compared to wii u games? Because 3ds games are alot easier to make (because the 3ds has inferior hardware it cant even handle high end graphics/much details and co).
Just imagine the differences in faces between Ps2 and Ps4. A face for a ps2 game was probl done in some hours but for an Ps4 game they are working days/weeks on all small details, textures and co.
Nintendo doesnt have THAT many and THAT big first party studios.
With weaker hardware they will be able to create MORE not AS good looking games.
More first party games + cheaper console priece = more sales.
3DS is the perfect proove. Sure the games didnt looked as good as on wii u but the system was cheaper and has more games. And it sold way better.
All in all im sure nintendo put MORE ressources in game development on Wii U as on 3ds. Just because they need 10x as many ressources to make a zelda wii then a triforce heroes the wii u had less games.
