Third-party games on WiiU - were they worth it?

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BasilZero said:

It was totally garbage.

This is coming from a multiplatform owner mind you - I suppose if I was like how I was 15 years ago or so (in which I limited myself to just Nintendo platforms which is dumb imo now that I think about it) then sure I guess I would be kind of satisfied with the limited, low quality, piss poor ports of games that were released on other platforms.

Thankfully I'm a multiplat owner who has the option to buy a third party title either on my PS4 or on my gaming desktop and laptop.

There were games that had gimped features, missing DLC, downgraded visuals and horrible performance - and of course missing key games that makes no sense in not being released when you had sequels released on it....

For an example garbage ports like the Mass Effect 3 port with a few DLC which were later taken down if I remember right.

Who in the right mind would buy ME3 on WiiU if you didnt play ME1 or ME2 especially if the DLC is missing >.> - and on top of that did a slap in the face when releasing the ME Trilogy collection on PS3/X360/PC a few months later with a bit more DLC and all 3 games packaged for the same price.


Each generation it seems like Nintendo's home consoles are getting worse in terms of the quality of the ports or what games are being released.

The N64/GCN had a decent amount of third party support despite being piss poor in comparison to the PS1/PS2.

The Wii had a few decent exclusive third party titles such as Tatsunoko VS Capcom and had a few really good ports such as the DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

The WiiU? Like the example above, ME3 and then the gimmick of "Oh hey, you can look at your mini map as a giant ass map on your gamepad, whoopeee doopee doo!!!!!!!!!".

Hence the reason why I dont have any third party titles on my WiiU - the closest I have to it would be Bayonetta 2 but that was simply because it was an actual exclusive title to actually get , two games for the price of 1 (or in my case two games for half the price of 1).

Not only that, I guess that game cant really be counted as a third party since Nintendo themselves funded it so it would actually be a second party game.



End of Rant :p


tl;dr I'm glad I'm not a Nintendo only gamer and Nintendo's third party support is garbage.

Why release a full trilogy in the Wii U if one game fails? Had Mass Effect 3 done well, you would've seen it. With people like you constantly hoping for third parties to fail, eventually Nintendo will just stop producing consoles. Sales have become abysmal, and losses are mounting. As much as people don't want to admit it, third parties are important for the success of a console.