Yeah that's a good point. I mean if Platinum had time and interest in making a Star Fox game why is Miya having to go public with his need for a partner. They are already in everyday talking terms with Platinum. I just hope whoever works on it they can do the franchise justice. That franchise needs a stellar developer to become relevant again. It can't afford another Starfox Assault.

bringing FF 15 to wii uisn't any riskier than bringing it to x1. actually, it's much safer to release it on wii u over x1. that's absolute.

I'm hoping for platinum games to be behind star fox U too. they already proved they are the masters of frenetic action games.

CoD, Batman, AC, and even Watch Dogs have bigger budgets than most kid friendly games. Even porting them takes more resources, just look how long Watch Dogs has been delayed. Some 7th gen games have also been delayed or cancelled in spite of the larger userbase.

Given how poor many 3rd party games sell on Wii U, even ports aren't financially worthwhile. If games like CoD, AC, and Batman sold a measly 600K on Wii U then support would have probably continued. Instead they struggled to sell 300K so the support went away.

Zombi U and Bayonetta 2 have not "sold very well." They certainly sold better than most M rated games on Wii U, but that's it. Unfortunately, those games can't rely on other platforms for profit, that makes Wii U exclusives a risk. Bayonetta 2 would be a multi million seller as a multiplat. But that won't happen on Wii U alone.

If Sunset Overdrive sells 700K like Zombi U, it well be deemed a failure. Bayonetta 2 had an opening of 200K in the west, that would also be poor for Sunset Overdrive.

Your prediction does have some merit. Watch Dogs on Wii-U is late, expensive, last gen graphics, and missing features. However thats not enough to sink a third party game. What can sink a third party game? The sort of Anti-Third Party hostility i've seen from Nintendo fans on forums across the Internet. For example...

The issue is with this mentality is that Watch Dogs is the most important release on the Wii-U to date. If the threats of a boycott are carried out and/or it sells terribly on release (less than even Wonderful 101), expect the end to come for third party support on the Wii-U.

Game companies don't make games just for the fun of it. When they make a game, they need to actually sell copies of it in order to make back the money put into creating it and some profit for themselves on the side. Rather than waste money producing games with extra features for a system that will never leave store shelves, its a more sensible (and easier) solution to simply drop support for that system. As the best way to avoid ending up with several thousand unsellable discs is to not produce them in the first place, or produce them for systems the game will sell on.

Agreed. They should have just cancelled Watch_Dogs on Wii U even if there was some sort of agreement with Nintendo to finish it. They probably save more money paying Nintendo back (if the agreement requires it) then selling paper weight game boxes.

Technically, Watch Dogs WiiU development hasn't been delayed. They stopped working on it for months to boost the manpower for other versions, then resumed working on the WiiU version.

That point also makes me wonder what position SEGA will take once their exclusivity agreement ends with Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric this month. Sonic Lost World was an absolute disaster sales-wise, and I honestly think their Wii-U dev kits will be going in the bin unless Sonic Boom is a success.

Notable about Sonic Lost World: on release it also got a horrific amount of criticism from Nintendo fans (just like Watch Dogs is getting), as they claimed it was a ripoff of Super Mario Galaxy. In fact, it was based on the cancelled Saturn game Sonic X-Treme, and it wasn't the first time the gravity tube mechanic was featured in a released Sonic game (Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) had them in the stage "Final Chase").

Perhaps Darksiders II as well?

Forgot that one as well. Thanks! Hopefully all of these will be available on eShop or online retailers in the future.