Wii U Turns 10 TODAY!

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curl-6 said:

spurgeonryan said:

I would say Third parties never truly supported the Wii U.

They gave the Wii mostly trash and was still struggling since the end of the SNES on the N64 and Cube.

What did we get the first year of Wii U?

A really bad Goldeneye or James bond game, no multiplayer if I remember. Assassons creed which had already been out half a dozen times on other systems, some really bad ( can I say shovelware anymore?) And a few oher mediocre titles just to say they were there.

EA pretty much abandoned it, and that's all off the top of my head. Back to work.

While the quality of the ports was inconsistent, (due to a combination of factors like devs not being familiar with the system, games being built primarily for the PS3 and 360, and Wii U's slower CPU) it's first 12 months saw a number of big titles; Call of Duty Black Ops II and Ghosts, Batman Arkham City and Origins, Mass Effect 3, Sonic Racing Transformed, Darksiders II, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Need for Speed Most Wanted.

It had better third party support than the Switch if we compare their first year, Switch just kept getting better cos the sales justified it, while on Wii U devs shifted their resources to PS4 and Xbox One.

While devs did shift their resources to PS4 and Xbox One they could have still released their games on Wii U. A bunch of games came out on PS3 and Xbox 360 between 2012 and 2016, so the Wii U could have gotten those games. Someone made a video showing all games that came out for PS3 and Xbox 360 after the Wii U launched and it's shocking (not really). Over 300 games released for PS3 and Xbox 360 after 2012 did not have a Wii U version.