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Soundwave said:

 

With Capcom refusing to even give the Wii U a port of RE REmake (a game that debuted exclusively on the GameCube in 2002) while every other major console platform gets it ... it signals kind of a new rock bottom for Nintendo consoles. 

Not even the likes of Capcom will support Nintendo consoles anymore it seems. 

What's even left? Maybe one more year of Call of Duty and the standard Skylanders/Just Dance sequels? Oh and I guess Sonic. 

This is the worst third party support I've ever seen for a Nintendo console, it even makes the N64 look good (N64 got stuff like The World In Not Enough, Madden, Beetle Adventure Racing, WipeOut 64, San Fransico Rush, WCW/NWO, Turok, Hybrid Heaven, Castlevania, Star Wars Episode I Racer, etc. at least). 


Kinda seems like it. The only third party support is coming from direct working relationships with Nintendo, Platinum: Bayo 2, Valhalla: Devils Third, Koei Tecmo: Hyrule Warriors, probably more that we don't know about as they seem to be on a roll with it, but other than potential COD, lego games and a couple others like that it's pretty much done for some reason. They keep supporting the PS360 but dismiss the Wii U, there is certainly more happening behind the scenes than we are aware of in this matter. Seems like third parties are attempting to take control of the industry. I'm quite sure we will see a bit of exclusive content from EA towards X1 now that they have that deal that Sony passed on. Will be interesting to see how it goes. 



Gotta figure out how to set these up lol.

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There is to much censorship on VGchartz concerning the Wii U.

But yes, and sane people know that of course, third party publisher have completely dropped the Wii U and why.



Amazon doesn't have a WiiU version of the new Assassins Creed for the last gen.. 360 and the PS3 are there...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Assassin%27s%20Creed%20Rogue



 

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Aielyn said:
Giggs_11 said:
I'm mostly a positive person, but I disagree with your optimism. Ubisoft is gone, aside from Watch Dogs (btw we haven't heard anything about if for months now, is it cancelled?) all you get is Just Dance and crap like that (the game their holding off is also family friendly, so no thanks also). Thanks but I'll pass.

President of Ubisoft said there's an unannounced, completed Wii U title (and it's implied that there's more than one) they have waiting for the system to sell enough units to release. Completed. If they had lost faith in the system, they'd release the game now to recoup some of the money they'd spent on it.

By the way, people like you who bag on "family friendly" get on my nerves. Family friendly includes such games as Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Pokemon. The greatest games of all time have pretty much all been "family friendly". In terms of Ubisoft, Rayman is family friendly, and Rayman Legends is one of the best games on the Wii U.

Ubisoft are being cautious - they're not announcing Wii U titles until they feel the system is ready. It's stupid in one sense - I've said it repeatedly, third parties need to be proactive about making a market for their games, if they wait for the system to be huge first before supporting it properly, then it'll just be a self-fulfilling prophecy about third-party sales. But I do understand where they're coming from.

By the way, Watch Dogs Wii U was reconfirmed just before E3. And it's been reconfirmed again just yesterday. E3 saw a CGI trailer for the game, too. So no, it's not cancelled.

Bandai Namco have yet to release a single game on either PS4 or Xbox One. Their first game is "Lords of the Fallen", and they're just publisher in America (Square Enix are publishing in Europe). Next is Project Cars, also a game that they're only publishing (not developing/funding). Tekken x Street Fighter is supposed to release for the systems, but it's fast becoming vapourware. Which means that the only PS4/XBO title that Bandai Namco are actually making that has a release period is Dragon Ball Xenoverse, set for release in 2015.

Meanwhile, Bandai Namco do have a new Wii U title set for release in October. And it's unlikely to be their only title, since I doubt that Nintendo would let them develop such a huge title as Smash if they weren't also making some other games for the system.

Activision really only currently consists of Skylanders, CoD, and Destiny. One of those three is confirmed for Wii U, and another is strongly rumoured. The rest of their titles are pretty much all movie spinoffs (like Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, which did release on Wii U).

WB isn't bringing Batman... but that's not their only game. It's not like they were bringing Batman to the Wii, either. Basically, WB's support for Wii U isn't any different now from what its support for Wii was.

Sega have more than just Sonic coming. They've got 4 Wii U SKUs listed for the forecast total to end of March 2015 (for comparison, PS4 has 3 and Xbox One has 2). But generally, Sega have shifted more to handhelds... but the point here is that they're not ignoring the Wii U.

Tecmo Koei, in addition to Hyrule Warriors, also have Fatal Frame V. Considering that the titles they have set for PS4/XBO are Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, while Wii U got Ninja Gaiden, Fist of the North Star, and Warriors Orochi, and then TK are working with Nintendo on two different titles, one of which is their own IP, I'd say they haven't written Wii U off, yet.

When you look across the industry, only two publishers have really reduced their non-shovelware support for Wii U relative to Wii, and those are Capcom and EA (and the latter is debatable, depending on whether you consider Madden on the Wii "shovelware"). And I have hopes that Capcom are just in a lull at the moment - they seem more than happy to pump games onto the eShop, and Nintendo Minute did a Capcom visit... which would be a strange thing to do if Capcom had nothing up their sleeves.

I have the feeling that those unannounced Ubisoft games for the WiiU are all casual games that probably aren't worth a damn! :-/



                
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Aielyn said:
Giggs_11 said:
I'm mostly a positive person, but I disagree with your optimism. Ubisoft is gone, aside from Watch Dogs (btw we haven't heard anything about if for months now, is it cancelled?) all you get is Just Dance and crap like that (the game their holding off is also family friendly, so no thanks also). Thanks but I'll pass.

President of Ubisoft said there's an unannounced, completed Wii U title (and it's implied that there's more than one) they have waiting for the system to sell enough units to release. Completed. If they had lost faith in the system, they'd release the game now to recoup some of the money they'd spent on it.

By the way, people like you who bag on "family friendly" get on my nerves. Family friendly includes such games as Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Pokemon. The greatest games of all time have pretty much all been "family friendly". In terms of Ubisoft, Rayman is family friendly, and Rayman Legends is one of the best games on the Wii U.

Ubisoft are being cautious - they're not announcing Wii U titles until they feel the system is ready. It's stupid in one sense - I've said it repeatedly, third parties need to be proactive about making a market for their games, if they wait for the system to be huge first before supporting it properly, then it'll just be a self-fulfilling prophecy about third-party sales. But I do understand where they're coming from.

By the way, Watch Dogs Wii U was reconfirmed just before E3. And it's been reconfirmed again just yesterday. E3 saw a CGI trailer for the game, too. So no, it's not cancelled.

Bandai Namco have yet to release a single game on either PS4 or Xbox One. Their first game is "Lords of the Fallen", and they're just publisher in America (Square Enix are publishing in Europe). Next is Project Cars, also a game that they're only publishing (not developing/funding). Tekken x Street Fighter is supposed to release for the systems, but it's fast becoming vapourware. Which means that the only PS4/XBO title that Bandai Namco are actually making that has a release period is Dragon Ball Xenoverse, set for release in 2015.

Meanwhile, Bandai Namco do have a new Wii U title set for release in October. And it's unlikely to be their only title, since I doubt that Nintendo would let them develop such a huge title as Smash if they weren't also making some other games for the system.

Activision really only currently consists of Skylanders, CoD, and Destiny. One of those three is confirmed for Wii U, and another is strongly rumoured. The rest of their titles are pretty much all movie spinoffs (like Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, which did release on Wii U).

WB isn't bringing Batman... but that's not their only game. It's not like they were bringing Batman to the Wii, either. Basically, WB's support for Wii U isn't any different now from what its support for Wii was.

Sega have more than just Sonic coming. They've got 4 Wii U SKUs listed for the forecast total to end of March 2015 (for comparison, PS4 has 3 and Xbox One has 2). But generally, Sega have shifted more to handhelds... but the point here is that they're not ignoring the Wii U.

Tecmo Koei, in addition to Hyrule Warriors, also have Fatal Frame V. Considering that the titles they have set for PS4/XBO are Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, while Wii U got Ninja Gaiden, Fist of the North Star, and Warriors Orochi, and then TK are working with Nintendo on two different titles, one of which is their own IP, I'd say they haven't written Wii U off, yet.

When you look across the industry, only two publishers have really reduced their non-shovelware support for Wii U relative to Wii, and those are Capcom and EA (and the latter is debatable, depending on whether you consider Madden on the Wii "shovelware"). And I have hopes that Capcom are just in a lull at the moment - they seem more than happy to pump games onto the eShop, and Nintendo Minute did a Capcom visit... which would be a strange thing to do if Capcom had nothing up their sleeves.


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fedfed said:
I thought RE:Revelation sold more on WiiU...

I know I could check in here but I feel lazy today!


not even close. dont even know why you thought that.



oniyide said:
fedfed said:
I thought RE:Revelation sold more on WiiU...

I know I could check in here but I feel lazy today!


not even close. dont even know why you thought that.


Im not sure what you mean by "not even close". I dont think the 360 version did very well either.



PattonFiend said:

Meanwhile... For the umpteenth week in a row, Wii U has outsold XBox One which begs one to ask how developers are still supporting XB1.


because there games actually sell on that system



Self fulfilling prophecy blues.



Hyrule Warriors and Fatal Frame V are both financed by Nintendo, they're not true third party projects, those are 2nd party games in effect.

The only third party games I think we can reliably say are coming for Wii U in 2015 are

Just Dance 2015: With 30% More Katy Perry

Skylanders

Disney Infinity

1 game from Sega apparently

LEGO Hobbit 2 (?), LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 (?)

Project: CARS (maybe?)