If you've got Tomb Raider on PS3 and you see Tomb Raider Definitive Edition for $60 you might pass right.

Well 160 million people already have a PS3/360 and games, so when they see Wii U for $300 with a bunch of ports of the same games for $50, you'd think they would pass too. Well, welcome to reality. It sucks. You're gonna love it.

When I look at the sales figures of games like Assassin's Creed IV (1.22M sold on PS4, 0.6M on XOne, and 0.12M on WiiU), I suspect that WiiU owners either a) aren't interested in 3rd party games, or b) purchase their multi-platform games for other consoles.

Of course the lack of 3rd party support is the responsibility of 3rd parties. Anyone who thinks different is probably a child. Who other than the 3rd party in question should be held responsible for what games they decide to release and not release?

All this "the system is too this or the userbase is not enough that" is one thing only: An excuse. At the end of the day, you either make a game for a system or you don't. If you don't that's nobody's 'fault' but your own. Whatever reasoning you have has no bearing on who's responsibility it is.

I think, wow people in general have higher IQ's than at the start of last gen ^^

Yeah I think many many people who have played (X or Y) game on last gen will obviously have a % that will simply not go for X or Y title. Simply because there is no new story/game design/gameplay. They're mainly catering to people who consider replaying the game because it is so fun for them and they want a sequel so they'll double dip and they get PC level graphics, the people that passed on it last gen but want a good action based game and want to support games like it also, something along those lines I'm thinking. I have a PS3 and haven't played it, but heard it's a fun game. I'm actually turned off on buying it for 2X dollars on Amazon for the PS3 and now waiting for it to hit 2X dollars and for myself to get a PS4. lol.

really? tell that to the N64, Cube and hell even Wii to a certain extent.

hahahaha, this. The WIi U is late to the party but too early at the same time. Way to late for the PS360 ports as millions of people have one or both those systems. Too weak for teh PS4/xone stuff. ITs kind of screwed in the 3rd party department.

the funniest part to me is that he claims we are the ones getting offended but he's making an essay for every response. LOL

That being said-  Wy do you think they did not port it tot he Wii U?

I always hear talk of "greedy" developers-  then Nintendo fans insist these "greedy" developers would surly make money if they put their games on the Wii U- 

But most decline to do so and most of the developers that have done so have lost their ass (in real dollar terms and/or opportunitty cost).  So..... if a "greedy" develper declines to port their game to the Wii U they must not beleive it is a good business move

our households only consoles are Nintendo-  I wish very much the Wii U had 3rd party support-  If it was not for Ubisoft so far the Wii U would have had close to nothing re 3rd party

Interestingly, Assassin's creed 4 sold more on both the PS3 and PS4 compared to the Xbox360 (by 270k) and Xbone (by 620k, over double) respectively. Perhaps the exclusive content was a feature that drew more sales.

Wow! DLC costs money? Amazing. I never knew. I believe that the exclusive DLC for Assassin's Creed 4 was free though. For an online-multiplayer-centric game, the fact that some do buy a game for the promise of additional content over a version that doesn't have it, is a factor to take into account, regardless of whether you are personally interested in the content, as this can affect the number of online users. Plus, it's nice to have options, you never know what will be released. With all other things being equal, why chance missing out on something you may like?

Don't forget that the Wii U just came out of a software drought, with a handful of first party software being launched just prior to Mario 3D World releasing around the same time as both Ghosts and AC4. Th PS4 and XBone, on the other hand, didn't have as many first party titles to contend with (with Ghosts being the highest-selling game on each platform). While there is a great difference in sales to the Wii U version, I think in this case there are more variables at play than simply "Third party games don't sell on Wii U".

I actually think that Watch_Dogs should be one of the multiplat games to watch to see how third party on WiiU really sells, as long as it has parity on features, release date and price, and especially if the gamepad is properly utilised. As the gamepad lends itself so well to the core mechanic of Watch_Dogs, we could very well see the WiiU version as the definitive version of the game, despite it not being as graphically strong as the PS4/Xbone versions.

Another multiplat game to watch is Project CARS, which is being developed to actually properly use the WiiU hardware for its version. By the time Watch_Dogs and Project CARS are released, the PS4 and Xbone should each have more quality titles to compete with within their own platforms, making their situation more similar to the Wii U's.