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Forums - Nintendo - What's up with the Wii U in Japan? Where are the third party games? (Hint: Nowhere)

 

Will Wii U get more support than the Wii in Japan?

Asolutely, 3rd parties ar... 75 21.01%
 
Probably, Nintendo alread... 117 32.77%
 
Not so sure, It all depen... 52 14.57%
 
Unlikely, none of the big... 53 14.85%
 
No way, 3rd parties will ... 60 16.81%
 
Total:357

I know it is much to ask trestres, but could you remake the lists for PS3 and WiiU with all the new information we have now? I am curious if it still looks as sad. I am sure the WiiU list is still much shorter than PS3, but maybe it changed from 60:1 to something better.



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Wait, what? I believe that there are more than two games to be launched in Japan:

Sonic Lost Worlds, Batman Arkham Origins (October)
Call of Duty Ghosts, Taiko no Tatsujin, Assassin´s Creed IV, Disney Infinity (November)
Monster Hunter Frontier G, Lego Marvel Super Heroes (December)

Not to mention the games already in production:Bayonetta 2, Project X, Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, Project Cars, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Wonder Flick, The Lego Movie Videogame,

Still, it´s clear that the situation is better on the west, even because most of those games are from western developers



Rogerioandrade said:
Wait, what? I believe that there are more than two games to be launched in Japan:

Sonic Lost Worlds, Batman Arkham Origins (October)
Call of Duty Ghosts, Taiko no Tatsujin, Assassin´s Creed IV, Disney Infinity (November)
Monster Hunter Frontier G, Lego Marvel Super Heroes (December)

Not to mention the games already in production:Bayonetta 2, Project X, Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, Project Cars, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Wonder Flick, The Lego Movie Videogame,

Still, it´s clear that the situation is better on the west, even because most of those games are from western developers


In October I don't think Sonic or Batman will reach 10k

November is a little more promising. AC and COD should be ~30k each, DI probably won't do a huge lot, but Taiko is coming off a successful Wii game. 100k is definitely possible.

Again in December I don't think either of those games will get 10k.



Purple said:


In October I don't think Sonic or Batman will reach 10k

November is a little more promising. AC and COD should be ~30k each, DI probably won't do a huge lot, but Taiko is coming off a successful Wii game. 100k is definitely possible.

Again in December I don't think either of those games will get 10k.


Yep. Western Games historically sell poor in Japan.  Maybe Sonic will have a better luck



on ps3



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Rogerioandrade said:
Wait, what? I believe that there are more than two games to be launched in Japan:

Sonic Lost Worlds, Batman Arkham Origins (October)
Call of Duty Ghosts, Taiko no Tatsujin, Assassin´s Creed IV, Disney Infinity (November)
Monster Hunter Frontier G, Lego Marvel Super Heroes (December)

Not to mention the games already in production: Bayonetta 2, Project X, Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, Project Cars, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Wonder Flick, The Lego Movie Videogame,

Still, it´s clear that the situation is better on the west, even because most of those games are from western developers

Games I highlighted are either Western third party games or else 1st party games, I knew that the confusion was going to appear.
Wasn't aware of Wonder Flick and I had forgotten about Puyo Puyo Tetris. That's still pretty terrible.

Capcom, Konami, Squre Enix, Tecmo Koei are still not betting on the platform. Sega might be the only one doing so. Namco and Level 5 have got only 1 game coming up. Meanwhile games are being announced for the PS3 and the 360 without a Wii U version.

Third parties should be fighting themselves off to be the kings on the platform, but that's not happening. No one is even trying to produce a hit. To reinvent a genre. Nothing. The Wii U is getting games out of pity or moneyhatting in Japan. There's no original content, most if not all games are ports, HD remasters or multiplatform games that are coming out on all available platforms.



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hentai_11 said:
I know it is much to ask trestres, but could you remake the lists for PS3 and WiiU with all the new information we have now? I am curious if it still looks as sad. I am sure the WiiU list is still much shorter than PS3, but maybe it changed from 60:1 to something better.

I will do it. Perhaps by the end of the week since I'm mostly busy with work, but I promise I will do a list.



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Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.

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trestres said:

Third parties should be fighting themselves off to be the kings on the platform, but that's not happening. No one is even trying to produce a hit. To reinvent a genre. Nothing. The Wii U is getting games out of pity or moneyhatting in Japan. There's no original content, most if not all games are ports, HD remasters or multiplatform games that are coming out on all available platforms.


I don't think this is an exclusively Japanese problem.



Japanese publishers are, for the most part, unambitious. Some still haven't switched from the PSP to the Vita. They resisted helping to build up a new market and instead went with the sure thing, despite how short-sighted that is. It wasn't until it became clear that Vita owners are buying up software at a high rate compared to its installed base, when games like Demon Gaze and Senran Kagura sold well, that other developers dived in.

You'd think the larger Japanese publishers would realize that they have an important responsibility to build markets for the future but that doesn't seem to be the case.

The Wii U also carries the burden of the prevalent belief that only certain genres will perform well on a Nintendo home console and that the core Nintendo fan will buy Nintendo-branded games but not much else, outside of a few popular franchises.



pokoko said:
Japanese publishers are, for the most part, unambitious. Some still haven't switched from the PSP to the Vita.

Those are a tiny minority now (some very small studios making VN). VIta titles have been multiplying since February and now it's quite a viable platform for japanese publishers out there. In a sense, Senran Kagura saved the Vita.