Nintendo and its fans are the ones to blame.



Also think of it this way, if the Wii-U fails 3rd parties are better off. Its one less platform to waste resources on.

No, it's Ninty's fault. Poor marketing and delaying all their good games to 2014. If they had been more prepared and marketed the system more then maybe their would be a bigger install base and more 3rd party support. It's on Nintendo to provide the install base.

Sure, third party titles can help drive the sales of the system, but like someone else pointed out, if it's not making them any profit why invest?

I think 2014 will change things around for Wii U, we'll just have to see how well it will do with almost no 3rd party support from major publishers like Ubisoft and EA aside from a few games. Hopefully Nintendo has some more Aces up their sleeve.

They really didnt try but that is because they havent supported a Nintendo console since the Super Nintendo

It's Nintendo's fault for not creating a system 3rd parties WANT to develop for. Whose idea was it to make the WiiU underpowered, or to add a pointless touchscreen, certainly not the publishers. Nintendo made a system for Nintendo, just like they always do.

I just cant understand also.
They said that GTAV was running on wii U by april/may, Crisis 3 also.
I remember that they only didnt port the wii U version of tomb raider cos they couldnt use gamepad properly in the game.
I remember that many developers say that is very easy to port the x360 to wii U, and that is more difficult to find a way to use the gamepad.

Possibly tomb raider could reach 150~200k, GTAV would had pass 500k for sure, or even more, and maybe it would help to sell more systems(if bundled, and with a gamepad feature, like displaying in the gamepad the vision similar to GTA 1...)

I wander if nintendo would have done something to bring these games to wii U...
If nintendo just put money in the projects, they will make the wii U version? Nintendo can do this?
Reggie wanted so much a GTAV version, but he couldnt do nothing??

95% of Wii U owners either have a PS3/4, Xbox 360/1, or a PC. People don't want to play third party games on a Wii U unless it's a platformer, or a casual game. The only people who should be upset about third party support, are the ones that will only own a Wii U.

I can guarantee that even if the Wii U was as strong as XB1 or PS4, they would still make excuses on gimped or missed games no matter what. I was talking about PS3/XB360 games that could have been properly ported over.

Its the Wii U owner's fault that 3rd parties don't go there. Its no point trying to optimize a game for the Wii U and it's gamepad if the core demographic only wants to play Mario.

Here's what I think basically has happened ...

Once upon a time there were Nintendo fans. And sure a lot of them fixated on Mario/Zelda/DK/Pokemon but there was also a large enough portion of them that bought a fairly wide variety of games. Even on the N64, they'd be willing to buy things like GoldenEye, F-Zero, Star Fox the WCW games, Turok, South Park, Killer Instinct, Star Wars, San Fransisco Rush, Top Gear Rally, NFL Quarterback Club, Perfect Dark, Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding -- as in Nintendo and third IP without Mario/Link/DK/Pikachu in them.

Then what happened is as the 2000s went along this ... this "diverse" portion of Nintendo fans started to splinter off. Some of them became disillusioned with Nintendo's direction with the GameCube and Wii and opted to become Sony/MS fans. To be honest some of the erosion actually began in the N64 era when a lot of people realized the N64 was no SNES-2. These fans have never really come back. They may have bought a Wii as a secondary party console, but they don't use it as their main machine for core games.

What you have now is a very different breed of Nintendo fan. They are the remaining group that fixates on Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/DK/Mario Kart/Smash like they have tunnel vision. They won't even support Nintendo IP like Xenoblade or Star Fox or F-Zero or Wonderful 101 any more in very large numbers, so Nintendo has resorted to overusing Mario.

In this environment, third parties don't have a prayer. The Nintendo fan that was willing to give games like 1080 Snowboarding, Turok, and F-Zero a shot has completely left Nintendo. 

I meet many hardcore Call of Duty/Battlefield fanatics who'll exclaim that GoldenEye was the game that got them into the genre. 

That's just silly.

Your numbers are a bit silly too.