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Will Third Parties Ever Return to Wii U?

Yes 109 33.23%
 
No 217 66.16%
 
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padib said:

oniyide said:

thats fair...maybe. Kind of doubt it, because games take time to make and they are already starting to move fully with PS4 and One which is gonna be damn near impossible or a big hassle for them to downport. 

What do you think about exclusives for the U, if it does well on genres other than those that made the Wii successful?

IMHO i think that is VERY unlikely. The WIi U has been around long enough to say that simply wont happen or we would have seen the effects already. Bayo is not going to do much but to be honest that genre isnt that popular period. Hell the irony is the most popular game in that particular genre is God of War a Sony exclusive not even made by a Japanese dev. X looks good but Jrpgs lost their relevance some time ago unless your name is Final Fantasy and maybe Dragon Quest.



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It's a business for third party devs. Once they see Nintendo funded games and exclusives titles sale (and Nintendo rake in money), they'll look stupid to not jump on board.



yeah because lord knows they NEED to put their games on Wii U. PS4,3, 360, One, PC isnt doing it.



Did they return when the DS, Wii, and 3DS proved that Nintendo wasn't going anywhere? No? Then there's your answer. If 3rd parties have made a stupid decision thrice in a row I doubt they're going to suddenly become logical with the Wii U.



Maybe not, but I'm going to get another Wii U to put in another room and I'm good.



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padib said:
oniyide said:

IMHO i think that is VERY unlikely. The WIi U has been around long enough to say that simply wont happen or we would have seen the effects already. Bayo is not going to do much but to be honest that genre isnt that popular period. Hell the irony is the most popular game in that particular genre is God of War a Sony exclusive not even made by a Japanese dev. X looks good but Jrpgs lost their relevance some time ago unless your name is Final Fantasy and maybe Dragon Quest.

What's your opinion on ZombiU, and to a lesser extent W101 and Lego City Stories,  by the way?

As for effects we would see, what are you refering to (the topic is a hypothetical, I'm not sure how we'd see the effects on something that hasn't happened)?

I think they have terrible sales. its quite jarring. Especially since 2 of those games had bundles, how much less would they have sold without it i wonder. Esepcially in the case of Lego where the much inferior and much less advertised 3ds version sold more.

Even if they some how come back, it wont make much of a difference. I thought at first thats all they needed. But lets look at last years COD and AC games. THey sold terrible on Wii U but great on PS4 and One. Which is kinda sad since those were launch consoles with pratically no userbase. Hell you cant even say there wasnt an established base on Wii U since it had previous versions of those series. I would be surprised if they can even catch AC3 or CODBLOPS2 numbers.



Aiddon said:
Did they return when the DS, Wii, and 3DS proved that Nintendo wasn't going anywhere? No? Then there's your answer. If 3rd parties have made a stupid decision thrice in a row I doubt they're going to suddenly become logical with the Wii U.

? all three of those systems got plenty 3rd party support and 3ds is still getting some. not sure what you're talking about.



PigPen said:
If Nintendo hardware sells or not, no. Nintendo is kinda doing the right thing now. Instead of funding developers for games, they should be their own 1st-2nd-3rd party and just get bigger. They already has some of the best franchises in gaming.

Yes they do, but really none of their franchises are games most people would want to play everyday. I bought a Wii U for a few Nintendo games I really enjoy but I would never choose them over my PS4 or gaming PC obviously different people have different opinions but Nintendo absolutely needs 3rd party devs if they ever want to compete in terms of hardware sells

 

Also the fact I am still waiting for an original Zelda for the Wii U is pretty bad.....



rolltide101x said:
PigPen said:
If Nintendo hardware sells or not, no. Nintendo is kinda doing the right thing now. Instead of funding developers for games, they should be their own 1st-2nd-3rd party and just get bigger. They already has some of the best franchises in gaming.

Yes they do, but really none of their franchises are games most people would want to play everyday. I bought a Wii U for a few Nintendo games I really enjoy but I would never choose them over my PS4 or gaming PC obviously different people have different opinions but Nintendo absolutely needs 3rd party devs if they ever want to compete in terms of hardware sells

 

Also the fact I am still waiting for an original Zelda for the Wii U is pretty bad.....

"Yes they do, but really none of their franchises are games most people would want to play everyday".  Am I the only one that think it's something wrong with that statement.



PigPen said:
rolltide101x said:
PigPen said:
If Nintendo hardware sells or not, no. Nintendo is kinda doing the right thing now. Instead of funding developers for games, they should be their own 1st-2nd-3rd party and just get bigger. They already has some of the best franchises in gaming.

Yes they do, but really none of their franchises are games most people would want to play everyday. I bought a Wii U for a few Nintendo games I really enjoy but I would never choose them over my PS4 or gaming PC obviously different people have different opinions but Nintendo absolutely needs 3rd party devs if they ever want to compete in terms of hardware sells

 

Also the fact I am still waiting for an original Zelda for the Wii U is pretty bad.....

"Yes they do, but really none of their franchises are games most people would want to play everyday".  Am I the only one that think it's something wrong with that statement.

I think he means that no console can survivor on 1st party alone. There's far too many gaps and droughts. 3rd party support keeps a steady stream games coming to PS4 and XBO. Sure Donkey Kong is fun but are you going to be playing that for 3 months straight until Mario Kart comes out? 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!