| Magnus said: PS2 and PS3 had massive libraries and tons of games weren't ported. Most Master System games weren't ported either. It's fine to port games, but a Nintendo system without an exclusive Zelda or an exclusive Mario Kart is garbage. And only companies with no business making games make bad consoles. They should have axed the Wii U right after launch but instead they lied to people promising actual support. |
The while the library of games will end up quite small, the vast majority of Wii U games aren't going to be ported either. But just because a system failed does that mean its games should regulated to after thoughts of history even if they don't have to? The Dreamcast failed but most people enjoyed being able to get some of the nicer games for that platform on another console. In comparison the Saturn failed and most never have gotten the opportunity to play some of the classics on that system and would love to see them moved to another device.
So far we have Breath of the Wild, which is getting the same treatment as Twilight Princess and the GC - Wii launch got, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is getting all the previous DLC plus a few new features such as the splatoon kids and Pokken Tournament, which is getting the arcade updates that were never added to the original home release. They tried to make it work for 3.5 years but could not do it, they thought the 3rd party support would help pick things up, it didn't and so they brought out a successor.
They did the same thing with Game Boy Color, which life was shorten so they could release the GBA to stay competitive with handhelds that came out in Japan. Same thing happened to the GBA for the DS which had a shorter run then it probably was intended to so they could compete on a closer playing field with the PSP. The Switch was done because they really needed to stay competitive and despite a good run with the Wii they were still having trouble doing so on their home consoles because of lack of third party support. So merge home and handheld together and hope to inherit all the 3DS and Vita market that is more valuable in Japan and home to indie titles that can help flesh out the calander. As a Wii U owner it does sort of suck but it is part of business and literally every company that releases hardware would do the same.
