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Miyamotoo on 24 September 2017
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DélioPT said:
Miyamotoo said:

Not just that Wii U didnt get more 3rd support because its sales, but fact is that rapidly started losing support that did had only few months after launch, thats why just after 1st year Wii U ended whitout most of 3rd party support that had on launch. You can bet (I am willing to bet), that Switch will get much more 3rd party support how time goes buy, how Switch continue to selling good and how instal base is growing, and we alredy seeing that curently.

No, Wii U lost the little support it had with it's slow sales.

Fact is, Wii U didn't have a lot of companies behind it and that was clear when you kept seeing games announced for PS3/XB360 and none for Wii U.
The decision to not bring games those games to Wii U was made before it was even out.

As i said, more sales probably won't equal more support.
Either Switch can handle ports in a satisfactory way (from dev's point of view) or it won't get them. Period.
In that regard, if devs can't port to Switch, [Switch] can sell really well and that still won't matter.

I always wondered how Nintendo convinced Bethesda to bring games to Switch, but couldn't convince EA (with the exception of Fifa), Ubisoft and Activision to bring their best games, too.
Really hope it was due to Wii U and not HW, because if it is HW issues...

Thats point, they lost almost all suport they had beacuse bad sales, Wii U launch lineup included: CoD, AC, Batman, Mass Effect 3, Madden, Fifa, NBA, NFS, Darksiders...and Wii U lost that support and that companies start abandoning Wii U after terrible Wii U sales only few months after lunch, we had plenty reports about canceled versions of Wii U games only few months after launch.

If Wii U actually was more successful platform we would actually had more 3rd party support of course.

Sales, succes and instal base of platform are very important if we talk about support. That doesn't meant that successful Nintendo platform will have 3rd party support same like PS4, but that of course means that same platform that has good sales, look like success and good instal base will have much more 3rd party support in any case compared to same platform that doesn't sell, look like failure and have low install base. Why Wii had more than 10 Fifa games compared to Wii U that only had one Fifa game even fact is that Wii U had similar power to PS3/Xbox360 compared to Wii, why Wii U losed almost hole 3rd party support in 1st year, why with Switch we getting more and more 3rd party support how time is passing, beacuse of sales offcourse. Any game can be ported, its only comes to that if dev means is it worth it, and much higher chances is that they will think its worth to port game if platform look like succes, has good sales and good instal base.That's clear logic, and you trying to reverse logic.

Maybe its not point that Nintendo convinced Bethesda, Bethesda see that Switch will be successful platform and they think their games will sale, and they like idea they full handheld mode gave new dimension to their games compared to other platforms. After Wii U faile, some 3rd parties take "wait and see aprouch" with Switch, so for start they relasing one or two not their biggest games,but we will see more announcements from EA, Ubi and Activations.