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Skidonti on 02 May 2014

I am a mostly Nintendo gamer, and I also buy on PC. But I don't buy the multiplats on my PC, justa small few. I mostly buy PC oriented strategy, indie, puzzle, or RPG titles and not things I could necessarily find elsewhere.

I don't want to play Assassin's Creed and I don't really want to play Killzone or Street Fighter or Need for Speed or CoD. I would not buy them if my main was a PS3. There are other games to play.

Also, I suppose I've gotten used to Nintendo titles keeping their price and simply buying them new at almost full price. With third party games... I simply feel far more hesitant to shell out 60, 50, or even 40 dollars. I feel I can just wait for any third party game I had an interest in buying to go below $30. Then when it does sometimes I buy it but many times I've also lost interest by that point.



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Faust on 02 May 2014
Skidonti said:
I don't want to play Assassin's Creed and I don't want to play CoD. I would not buy them if I only owned a 360. There are other games to play.
Also, I suppose I've gotten used to Nintendo titles keeping their price and simply buying them new at almost full price. With third party games... I simply feel far more hesitant to shell out 60, 50, or even 40 dollars. I feel I can just wait for any third party game I had an interest in buying to go below $30. Then when it does sometimes I buy it but many times I've also lost interest by that point.


as you said, there are other games to play... In that same console... Seriously, is no that hard to find them...

 



curl-6 on 02 May 2014
joel1989 said:
EricFabian said:
NightDragon83 said:

Yeah, because we all know games like Darksiders 2, Batman Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3/4 and COD BO2 and Ghosts can't hold a candle to absolute masterpieces like Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Pikmin 3, etc.


Pikmin 3 is a better game than almost every game you listed

LOL batman alone is worth every nintedno game on wiiu.

Not even in the same league as Mario 3D World or Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.



cuberandgamer on 03 May 2014

dont feel like it



joel1989 on 03 May 2014
curl-6 said:
joel1989 said:
EricFabian said:
NightDragon83 said:

Yeah, because we all know games like Darksiders 2, Batman Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3/4 and COD BO2 and Ghosts can't hold a candle to absolute masterpieces like Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Pikmin 3, etc.


Pikmin 3 is a better game than almost every game you listed

LOL batman alone is worth every nintedno game on wiiu.

Not even in the same league as Mario 3D World or Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.

yea batman is in a higher leauge. not even nintendo fans are buying tropiical freeze.



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random15 on 03 May 2014

I CANNOT believe some of the answers in this thread.



generic-user-1 on 03 May 2014
NightDragon83 said:
Kemsus said:
most third party games lack the quality that Nintendo fans expect from their games

Yeah, because we all know games like Darksiders 2, Batman Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3/4 and COD BO2 and Ghosts can't hold a candle to absolute masterpieces like Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Pikmin 3, etc.


nintendo land is fun for a while, pikmin 3 is a masterpiece and MSMBU is a 2d mario.

Darksiders 2 is great too.  the batman games are okay, would be great with a better batman( it feals to much like the shitty movie batman and not like the good cartoon/comic/90s batman). Mass effect 3 meh, cant say its as good as the other 2. Asscreed is just broken.

and cod is a casualshooter with a story written by some retard.  none of the games is as great as pikmin3 or as fun as MSMBU.

the most 3rd partys dont make good enough games anymore for nintendo fans.

give us good new FF and it will sell well on wii u.  (okay, that will never happen, SE isnt the company anymore that gave us those great games)



cuberandgamer on 03 May 2014

More and more 3rd parties are expecting recycled games to sell well as well.



generic-user-1 on 03 May 2014
marley said:
joel1989 said:
Zero999 said:

rayman sold in the same level as the ps3 version and it's 13x bigger installed base, the same for sonic all stars racing transformed. lego city - 750k, zombi u - 660k, monster hunter tri - 500k

Wii u owners buy 3rd party games, unless you want to say ps4/xone owners don't buy third party games, it's hipocrisy. because out od the top 10 it's pretty similar for the 3.

yes you named the only 3 third party games that sold over 500k  on wiiu, now compare that to ps4 thirdparty sales

 

1. Call of Duty: Ghosts 2013 Shooter Activision 1.14 0.76 0.03 0.18 2.11
2. FIFA Soccer 14 2013 Sports Electronic Arts 0.35 1.24 0.03 0.21 1.83
3. Battlefield 4 2013 Shooter Electronic Arts 0.82 0.69 0.07 0.15 1.73
4. Killzone: Shadow Fall 2013 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.62 0.80 0.05 0.16 1.63
5. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 2013 Action Ubisoft 0.69 0.69 0.03 0.14 1.55
6. inFAMOUS: Second Son 2014 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.61 0.36 0.00 0.12 1.09
7. Knack 2013 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.26 0.31 0.40 0.06 1.03
8. Need for Speed Rivals 2013 Racing Electronic Arts 0.39 0.38 0.02 0.08 0.86
9. NBA 2K14 2013 Sports Take-Two Interactive 0.63 0.15 0.00 0.06 0.84
10. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes 2014 Action Konami Digital Entertainment 0.27 0.18 0.12 0.06 0.63
11. Madden NFL 25 2013 Sports Electronic Arts 0.51 0.06 0.00 0.04 0.61
12. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2013 Action Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 0.21 0.21 0.00 0.04 0.46


The PS4 has a larger selection of better quality 3rd party titles.


or a lesser quality of 1st party games...



animegaming on 03 May 2014

A its a game i have no interest in

B i have already the game

C i am gonna get the game on the different platform