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superchunk on 11 January 2017
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bdbdbd said:
Hiku said:

Considering WiiU only sold 13M, there are far more gamers who didn't play those games than there are who did. Me for example. I do want to play those games, but I can't justify buying a WiiU for them. So that they're bringing some of their best WiiU titles to Switch is actually the biggest reason I'm interested in the system.

They actually put Pokemon Crystal on Gameboy Color as an exclusive, while Gold and Silver worked on the original Gameboy.

But if Nintendo wants to sell their console, surely they wouldn't be banking on the games that didn't move Wii U's. Gamecube BC did not move Wii's, Gamecube ports did not move Wii U's, and I'm quite sure Wii U ports will not move Switches. Problem with ports is, that porting Mario Kart 8, for example, may prevent them from making Mario Kart 9, that could actually be a good game. 

Pretty sure ZeldaWWHD moved WiiUs. I don't feel like grabbing the actual sales data, which is in one of my threads, but it did.

Content moves consoles. If NS is simple to port to due to nvidias awesome support, then maybe spending a few months dev time on a port of an existing, highly popular game, is worth the time. I'd be willing to be the three wiiu ports being pushed (splatoon, mk8, ssb) took less time to enhance and add new content than it would to make just one new game. That's three, very popular, large selling IPs out near NS launch vs maybe having one other game that is technically new. This combined with other new games such as ZeldaBotW and 3DMario from Nintendo at the very least. 

I think Nintendo is making very good decisions on this. Provide a solid mix of new and favorite content. I'm still betting splatoon and mk8 will be some kind of launch bundle or simply part of the free game with the base model. Guess we'll know tomorrow.