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Will Third Parties Ever Return to Wii U?

Yes 109 33.23%
 
No 217 66.16%
 
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kupomogli said:

Yes they would, but it's not going to happen. It took six and a half months for the PS4 to sell 7.6 million. You think the Wii U is going to sell six million in six months when it took a year and a half to get 6.2?  It's not even going to sell half that.

The Wii U had a very bad start though.  PS3 & X360 ports as launch titles (just nasty).  Doom articles before the console released.  Developers lying about the Wii U power.  No games for long periods of time...  Nintendo is now in a position to right the ship with games.  The games they have coming will almost make me forget its bad start.  My opinion as of now is there offerings coming up is looking better then both other consoles.



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Nope. Although if X, Bayonetta and more 'core' focussed games do well it could prompt some third parties to attempt some ports, only to fail again and never come back because the games didn't get the necessary love/marketing.

Wii U needs exclusives or don't bother and even 15 million install base isn't enough for most major third parties to make an exclusive.



nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions



oniyide said:
nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions


Like COD ( Call Of Duty: Ghosts)



PigPen said:
oniyide said:
nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions


Like COD ( Call Of Duty: Ghosts)

yeah no, COD is not a Ubisoft game



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No wii u problem is not install base,people would always prefer 3rd party game on Microsoft or Sony console because of there power.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

oniyide said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions


Like COD ( Call Of Duty: Ghosts)

yeah no, COD is not a Ubisoft game


What was I thinking.  Like Rayman: Legends.



PigPen said:
oniyide said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions


Like COD ( Call Of Duty: Ghosts)

yeah no, COD is not a Ubisoft game


What was I thinking.  Like Rayman: Legends.


thats more of an exception than the rule and even then its still wrong cause they didnt start work on the other versions till AFTER the Wii U one was damn near finished.



oniyide said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
nope even if it did happen what do people think games will just start appearing, it takes time to make games even some ports. Im more surprised that AC comet is not confirmed for Wii U. Ubi usually doesnt wait, they annouce a game and annouce all versions


Like COD ( Call Of Duty: Ghosts)

yeah no, COD is not a Ubisoft game


What was I thinking.  Like Rayman: Legends.


thats more of an exception than the rule and even then its still wrong cause they didnt start work on the other versions till AFTER the Wii U one was damn near finished.

You really believe that?  That should've been a eshop title.  It was coming to the X360 & PS3 reguardless.  They all look identical beside the framerate issues.  It was in mind just like Splinter Cell: Blacklist.



artur-fernand said:
Third-party support is dying alongside the multi-generation games. Once we really go full 8th gen, it's over for the Wii U - it's not worth it make a vastly inferior version of your game, regardless of install base (just look at the Wii). Absolutely nothing can change that, the Wii U's fate is already sealed.


I'm glad you have a crystal ball. Perhaps you wouldn't mind helping me out with some lotto numbers sometime?

 

Seriously, first off, Wii had fantastic third party support compared to Wii U right now. Yes, it did miss out on certain multi-plat games that it argubly should have gotten, considering the install base. BUT, on the other hand, it also got quite a few rather good third party exclusives, as well as ports from series like Call of Duty, etc. Companies like EA and Activision certainly supported the hell out of it, and even a company like Capcom threw it some bones, with the RE: Chronicles games, or MH3, or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. That support is far better than what Wii U is getting right at the moment.

But to think that, if Wii U were selling a lot better, that third parties wouldn't bother giving it another shot? That's a bit absurd. The power gap between Wii U and PS4, while still significant, is also significantly smaller than it was with Wii vs. PS3. With Wii being an SD console, developers usually had to make a whole seperate, new build of games just to port them to Wii. With Wii U, while the processing power isn't on par, the GPU is still rather strong, and in general, it's more a matter of scalability now, than it is having to make whole seperate builds. These facts have been discussed to death on these forums over the last year+. Most games that come out on PS3/XBone could be done on Wii U as well, it would just have to be scaled back. And yes, developers are going to have to want to bother taking the time to do that, but it's much less time, effort, or money involved that it was with Wii. You've got to think that if Wii U suddenly started doing a lot better, that yes, publishers like money, and at least some of them would get back on board. Hell, most of the big ones were all in at launch, because they obviously assumed that Wii U would take off just like Wii did, and they were happy it was finally an HD console. The support dried up after that, because initial sales for many of their games weren't so hot. That's it, it's just simple economics.

And even still, companies like Ubisoft, Activision and WB (with the exception of the next Batman game), are still supporting the system.