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Will you support these games on Wii U?

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MohammadBadir said:
zorg1000 said:
I plan on buying a Wii U this holiday but honestly I couldnt care less about the 3rd party multiplats. I may pick up a few down the line but im planning on getting Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101 and Wind Waker this year. I buy Nintendo consoles for exclusives, whether it be 1st or 3rd party. Many of the multiplats I will continue buying for my PS3 and in a few years PS4, with the few exceptions that have really good use of the gamepad. Instead of worrying about multiplats, I think Nintendo should focus on securing 3rd party exclusives.

there's nothing wrong with what you're doing, but it's this kind of mindset that makes 3rd party devs shy away from the Wii U

But like I said I will support the ones that make good use of the systems features. Also I dont have a Wii U yet so when I do buy it why would my first purchases be games available on a system I already own?



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Considering how small WiiU's installed base is and how much smaller the base for such games is, - which is not likely to grow significantly by this holiday season without any non-Nintendo exclusives - buying exclusively for WiiU in hopes of maintain 3rd party favour seems like folly. Unless Nintendo does some genius marketing campaign, or Sony and MS suddenly going bankrupt, there's little hope any core 3rd party titles will sell impressively on WiiU.

Buy it for WiiU if you think it'll play best on WiiU and you really want it. I bought plenty of 3rd party games for Wii and it didn't actually help anything, but at least I put my money where my mouth was. However, I still only bought the games I actually wanted to play on the system I wanted to play them on.



 

For those who are willing to support this console as their primary console should get this game. But even if I decided to get the console right now, I would buy every game on ps4. Is the support of customer is so low, it is not my fault, I would not become their savior all of a sudden. I would get the version that I thing is the best for me.



I want Wii U games to focus more on Gamepad screen play, I don't care if the TV screen displays different stuff, but I just want the option to play all games on it without the need for the TV screen.



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zippy said:
100 million install base, weak specs = no third party support.
Higher specs, small install base = no third party support.
Nintendo..damned if you do, damned if you dont.

OT-I will be buying Watch dogs, Arkham and maybe splinter cell for my Wii U. Gotta snap up the good third party games that are here.


wrong, Wii got alot of 3rd party support, ALOT or do you think all those games on the WIi were made by Ninty, WIi had more games than either PS3 or 360



i dont hate Ninty, but im not going to support this "cause" lets get real here people, the VAST majority of people who want these games have a system to play them on, I suspect even if they were to buy a WIi U they would still buy whatever version of system they've had for years, be it for trophies/achievements, dont want to split up collection of series, or they want to play the version their friends are playing. Im afraid, alot of people are in the minority for this



THe sad truth is the actually 3rd paty games i am interested in, arent even being released on Wii U(GTA5, South Park) so even if i bought one, there would be nothing for me to buy



oniyide said:
zippy said:
100 million install base, weak specs = no third party support.
Higher specs, small install base = no third party support.
Nintendo..damned if you do, damned if you dont.

OT-I will be buying Watch dogs, Arkham and maybe splinter cell for my Wii U. Gotta snap up the good third party games that are here.


wrong, Wii got alot of 3rd party support, ALOT or do you think all those games on the WIi were made by Ninty, WIi had more games than either PS3 or 360

Your right Wii did get a lot of 3rd party support, but what ratio of it was actually decent? A lot of 3rd parties released sub par efforts to cash in on its success, and games like Red Steel 2 and Goldeneye were few and far between.

Many 3rd parties used the "weak hardware" excuse to not bring certain franchises out on Wii, or even build an exclusive from the ground up to suit the hardware. I mean the sales were there, so they could have reaped the rewards. Now Ninty has the tools to create these HD experiences 3rd parties now bang on about low sales of the hardware. Nintendo cant win sometimes



zippy said:
oniyide said:
zippy said:
100 million install base, weak specs = no third party support.
Higher specs, small install base = no third party support.
Nintendo..damned if you do, damned if you dont.

OT-I will be buying Watch dogs, Arkham and maybe splinter cell for my Wii U. Gotta snap up the good third party games that are here.


wrong, Wii got alot of 3rd party support, ALOT or do you think all those games on the WIi were made by Ninty, WIi had more games than either PS3 or 360

Your right Wii did get a lot of 3rd party support, but what ratio of it was actually decent? A lot of 3rd parties released sub par efforts to cash in on its success, and games like Red Steel 2 and Goldeneye were few and far between.

Many 3rd parties used the "weak hardware" excuse to not bring certain franchises out on Wii, or even build an exclusive from the ground up to suit the hardware. I mean the sales were there, so they could have reaped the rewards. Now Ninty has the tools to create these HD experiences 3rd parties now bang on about low sales of the hardware. Nintendo cant win sometimes


Well I think it's kinda like a guy going on a date without his pants on, then realizing that was a bad idea, so he makes sure to wear pants on your second date, but you forget to wear a shirt on that one.

The Wii U is a new set of mistakes that Nintendo made, so it's not so much that they "can't win". Honestly I don't think Nintendo really cares to win this audience anyway, for them it's kind of a "nice to have", not a "must have", they design their hardware with philosophies tailored to their own company whims, and make a few minor concessions to the needs of third parties here or there.

For Nintendo to honestly compete for a lot of third party support, they'd have to provide hardware that's roughly equivalent to what the other companies are providing *and* then have a userbase to back that up. The GameCube got one of those right, the Wii got one of those right, but neither got both of them right.

The only third party multi-plat that honestly interests me on the Wii U is Batman and if there's no PS4/XB1 version, I'll probably get it for Wii U if I do buy it at all. I'm getting Wonderful 101, Super Mario 3D World, and Donkey Kong Country: TF this fall for sure.