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Um... sure? ._.



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Not necessarily kickstarter. But indies yes. Indies have been a huge help to the Wii U and the Vita, which otherwise wouldn't really have been able to sustain an audience.



I don't like indie games, I don't play indie games, but I can see the positive for those who enjoy them. Good job in that, i guess.



I have a lot of indie games for my wiiu. I feel like people fail to see the value that virtual console games also provide for the system. I have earthbound, minish cap, super metroid and Metroid Prime trilogy. Honestly I am very happy with my wiiu. I find it the most enjoyable system of an admittedly mediocre generation.



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garywood said:
Not necessarily kickstarter. But indies yes. Indies have been a huge help to the Wii U and the Vita, which otherwise wouldn't really have been able to sustain an audience.

Vita is also mostly helped by 3rd party in japan and will still be for years  , it has an audience for all of US who like japanese games



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 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

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i will be forever grateful for shovel knight.



CarcharodonKraz said:
i will be forever grateful for shovel knight.


I'm not pleased it went to PS4 though. People funded it based on it being a wiiu exclusive. It should have stayed an exclusive.



Meh that's a no for me. Without Kickstarter I have a good library of games to play without it. So even without KS i still would've been enjoying my system either way



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With all those billions made during the Wii years Nintendo should have snatched far more indie exclusives.. its still ridiculous MS got Minecraft as timed exclusive



 

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bowserthedog said:
CarcharodonKraz said:
i will be forever grateful for shovel knight.


I'm not pleased it went to PS4 though. People funded it based on it being a wiiu exclusive. It should have stayed an exclusive.


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