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Platina on 06 March 2015
dharh said:
Platina said:


Oh, that explains things :P


Was published by EA. EA is not involved here. Rockband 4 is a whole different beast. It is a risky venture by harmonix. If they are not careful it could kill them.


I wouldn't really say that not porting to the Wii U is a risky venture... if anything it is the opposite..

Thanks for the clarification, though



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Bofferbrauer on 06 March 2015
Cloudman said:
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So the Wii U doesn`t have a hardcore market AND a casual market? Then what market does it have then?!

please don`t tell me Nintendo only market.. TwT

Sounds like a weak excuse honestly. I wish they would just say "We don`t want to release a Wii U version because it`s not worth it. The install base is too small" Also, last I check, the Wii is retired, so of course people will move on from it. Most people do. : P

A thriving Indie Market. Which is pretty logic if you think about it: Due to the lack of games from the other publishers, the indies are getting much more exposition in the eShop than they would otherwise.

I`d be okay with that. It`s good indies are supporting the system, where AAA  just abandoned it.

Same here. I've bought over a dozen Indie Titles and I'm very happy with them. Plus, they feel less generic and more unique then what many publishers offer most of the time anyway.



kupomogli on 06 March 2015
Cloudman said:

please don`t tell me Nintendo only market.. TwT

Well.  Guess I'm out of answers.



PxlStorm on 06 March 2015

Who cares...? There's no reason to be sad about this loss.



Blob on 06 March 2015

Im not even sure if theres a Nintendo only market on wii u at the moment..... Nintendo seriously need to consider where they want to be in this industry and what their next move should be because at the moment this is just getting sad.



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Cloudman on 06 March 2015
kupomogli said:
Cloudman said:

please don`t tell me Nintendo only market.. TwT

Well.  Guess I'm out of answers.


That was the answer I was expecting to my question : P



 

              

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Platina on 06 March 2015
Cloudman said:
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Why release any game to a low install platform?


Despite its low sales, the Vita is getting some good support, at least in Japan.


This is sort of a different scenario... PS vita in Japan is doing relatively well, and the devs are targeting that audience specifically

Rock Band can choose to port to a wide variety of consoles and chooses to skip out the the weakest one with the lowest sales, and that is the Wii U



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Kerotan on 06 March 2015
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It wasn't really an official statement.  I was saying it's bigger with the other fanbases and i meant ratio wise.  Back when rock band was at its peak the Wii had a very big lead over the xbox and ps3. It's telling that despite that it was bigger on xbox and almost as big on Ps3. Those ratios would suggest with the current gen that the Wii U would do the worse of the 3 main platforms by quite a bit.  I'm sure they did their research on this otherwise you'd see a wii u version.  

Ratios mean nothing when there isn't history to back it up. Rock Band on the PS2 sold about the same as it did on the PS3, despite the much larger install base of the PS2. Something similar could happen with the Wii & Wii U, but we won't know now.


I think it's pretty obvious that when the series was already favorable to xbox and playstation that it will be much more biased now that the xbox and playstation are dominating the Wii U.  That console just has no momentum and these guys are basically indie devs.  There gonna play it safe and who can blame them.  



Cloudman on 06 March 2015
Platina said:
Cloudman said:


Despite its low sales, the Vita is getting some good support, at least in Japan.


This is sort of a different scenario... PS vita in Japan is doing relatively well, and the devs are targeting that audience specifically

Rock Band can choose to port to a wide variety of consoles and chooses to skip out the the weakest one with the lowest sales, and that is the Wii U


I don`t mean just Rock Band, but games ingeneral. I don`t see why Wii U had to miss out on all the games just because it`s not selling as strongly as its compeititors.



 

              

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onionberry on 06 March 2015

Because EA.