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Does WiiU have hope for good 3rd party support?

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PSwii60 on 21 February 2013

Yes! Somebody has to support the purple lunch box.



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aikohualda on 21 February 2013
Cougarman said:
most next gen engines are scalable so it wont be like wii, that still wont guarantee 3rd party support for the wii u

google translate:

yes... maybe



 

aikohualda on 21 February 2013
Trunkin said:
I'm sure Nintendo will continue to work with third party devs to get decent support for their system. I dunno if they'll be getting many PS4/XB3 multiplats, but my gut tells me no.

i dont think nintendo care much about multiplats.



 

SubiyaCryolite on 21 February 2013

I honestly don't think so :/ It depends on the sales of the new "HD Twins"?



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

Fireforgey on 21 February 2013
pezus said:
Rope03 said:
Watch Dogs was just announced for Wii U, so maybe.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/20/watch-dogs-wii-u/

Well it's coming to PS3/360 too so that one isn't a good example.

No, it's a perfect example.  Companies wont drop the PS360 as fast as they usually did.  In fact those consoles will continue to outsell the new Gen for at least a year and will equal the sales for another year.  Which means that all (or almost all) major multi-plats will be cross-gens as well ensuring that the Wii U will have have many games going into the future.  They will then slowly fase out developement for the PS360, but by that time will have drastically improved their use of the Wii U hardware making it relevant and capable of handling Multi-plats going into the future although the amount will be less and less as time goes on.  Finally at around the last year or two of it being on the market, 3rd party games will mostly dry up, but just in time for the next Nintendo console which will be more than a match for the PS4 which will be on the market for no less than 7-10 years.  So the new Nintendo console will be the most powerful console somehwere in the middle of next gen ensuring that it will get most major releases, after that I have no idea what will happen but this is (I believe) the mostly likely scenario.



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TomaTito on 22 February 2013

Soon there will be a short-term answer. The few third party titles the WiiU has lined up was going to be covered in a Nintendo Direct this month. With only a few days left not sure if they are still doing it...



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Asriel on 22 February 2013

Will they get equivalent support to Sony and Microsoft? No, of course not.

Can Nintendo build enough partnerships, obtain the best cross-generation games, and continue to attract smaller developers onto eShop, ensuring a steady stream of content built around high-profile exclusives and marquee first party releases, and a healthy software market split between first party and third party software?

Sure they can. It will be extremely difficult but it's not impossible. I think it's far less important that Nintendo have equivalent support, than building alternative support that ensures the system doesn't have software droughts.