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Soundwave on 11 August 2020
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

The GBA got token support for a year because even by Nintendo standards cutting it after 3 1/2 years was pushing it.

Nintendo doesn't have some magic button they can push where they can magically make games out of nowhere. The Wii had 5 full years of software support, they had to move on and support 3DS and Wii U, that's just the way it goes. You cannot live in the past. 

The NES did not get all that much support after the SNES launched, tough shit. That's how it goes. The PS2 did not get much support from Sony after the PS3 launched. The SNES got very little support after the N64 launched.  

There's nothing special about the Wii that warranted it being treated any differently. The system was declining hard well before 2012 anyway.  

Companies only have finite resources they can't fixate on declining end of product cycle systems with major games, it's a stupid waste of resources. Yes you can squeeze some extra juice out of the orange, that's not anything magically exclusive to the Wii. You can make Super Mario World on the NES and release it in 1991, it would also be a very stupid thing to do in the big picture. 

Your argumentation lacks consistency. You point out previous successful consoles which all saw support after the launch of their respective successor and then continue to say that there was nothing special about the Wii that warranted it being treated any differently. Yet the Wii was treated differently, with its support being cut sooner than for other successful consoles.

Which systems had significant support from their console manufacturers after the release of the successor? Can you point them out? 

Developer support isn't a luxury, it's a very valuable and finite resource, Nintendo in particular does not have freebie resources where they can take care of two newborn game consoles (3DS and Wii U) that need constant early gen support and oh by the way also support the declining Wii too. Why not ask for continued DS support too while we're at it since the DS was far more successful than the Wii. 

This is like asking a parent to look after newborn twins while also having two older children that are so useless they can't do anything for themselves even though they're at an age where they shouldn't need constant attention. The parent is going to collapse from exhaustion. 

I'm sure Iwata could've just pulled all the design teams for all these magical projects out of his ass. Asking any company, even MS or Sony, to simultaneously provide significant support for 3-4 platforms at once is just a flat out stupid thing to ask for. It's not even remotely realistic. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 August 2020