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Do you think 3rd party should stop this laziness?

Yes, it pisses me off 297 71.91%
 
No, Wii U deserves piss poor ports 115 27.85%
 
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SubiyaCryolite on 17 June 2014
think-man said:
Devs can only put as much time into a game as they think it's going to sell. Devs aren't going to optimize the crap out of these games because no one buys them.


True story. Early PS3 ports were terrible last gen but people actually bought them. Eventually it became the lead platform. The sales of both 7th and 8th gen multiplats on the U are largely abysmal. The launch games in particular haven't done well at all.



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oldschoolfool on 17 June 2014

it's all about the green. would it sell anymore on the wiiu,if they actually put the effort into the ports? that should be the real question.



think-man on 17 June 2014
SubiyaCryolite said:
think-man said:
Devs can only put as much time into a game as they think it's going to sell. Devs aren't going to optimize the crap out of these games because no one buys them.


True story. Early PS3 ports were terrible last gen but people actually bought them. Eventually it became the lead platform. The sales of both 7th and 8th gen multiplats on the U are largely abysmal. The launch games in particular haven't done well at all.

Moral of the story is if they sell well devs will put more effort into them, until then take what you get. :/



 

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Kresnik on 17 June 2014

You're "getting tired" of EA putting half-assed ports on WiiU?

They're not porting anything to WiiU anymore.  They haven't since launch (apart from 1 game which I'm told was a tremendous port).  So you've got nothing to worry about there.

Aside from that, games which will sell on WiiU are ported well.  Your Skylanders and Disney Infinity and stuff.  One of those games is from Activision!

The rest of the stuff doesn't sell.  To be honest, I'm not really sure why Assassin's Creed/Call of Duty is still coming to WiiU yearly because the profits on those games aren't very big.  But anyway, that's the reason the ports are half assed.  

I'm led to believe that the first CoD port - Black Ops 2 - was actually a pretty decent port job, but it didn't sell for shit.  They could've upped their game with Ghosts I suppose and seen if that garnered any more sales, but that would've been an uphill struggle.  So instead they went for the easy option.  Ghosts is tracking behind Black Ops 2, so I can't say I really blame them.

I do wonder if these kinds of games will keep getting ported so long as there remain last-gen versions.  Doesn't really seem worth it.  But who knows.



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fps_d0minat0r on 17 June 2014

Im tired of half assed ports on PS3.
I think they should play like the PS4 version. I dont care if the hardware is weaker, but I feel like blaming the devs for lazyness because everyone knows the powah of teh cell can match the PS4.



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d21lewis on 17 June 2014

Quiet you!

Crappy ports welcome! We love you, third parties!!



curl-6 on 17 June 2014
fps_d0minat0r said:
Im tired of half assed ports on PS3.
I think they should play like the PS4 version. I dont care if the hardware is weaker, but I feel like blaming the devs for lazyness because everyone knows the powah of teh cell can match the PS4.

Your analogy fails because Wii U is more powerful than PS3/360, not vice versa.



Porcupine_I on 17 June 2014
d21lewis said:
Quiet you!

Crappy ports welcome! We love you, third parties!!


That's the spirit!



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- George Orwell, ‘1984’

AZWification on 17 June 2014

Stop complaning! You should be VERY thankful that the WiiU is getting all those half-assed ports with missing features!



                
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Uabit on 17 June 2014

Oh god is this NintendoGchartz or something?

Do you think they are going to make a decent version of the game only for Wii U when it is the console where third party games have poor sales, and it is powerPC wich means it is a pain in the ass to port to it while on XOne/PS4 with x86-64 architecture is much easyer?