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Soundwave on 15 March 2016
Nuvendil said:
TheBlackNaruto said:
I thought everyone already knew this. Yet the Wii U is still selling like trash. that's what is mind boggling...it has a lot of really good games but it seems like no one really wants it.

It comes down to system marketing.  The PlayStation 4 has been very well promoted.  The Wii U on the other hand is inconsistently bouncing back and forth between good marketing, mediocre marketing, and then no marketing.  2013 was almost complete radio silence until the notoriously awful late 2013 campaign.  Then silence again until the good MK8 campaign and then silence again until the modest efforts with Bayo 2 and Hyrule Warriors and the prolific but inconsistent quality push for Smash.  Then - you guessed it - almost complete silence until Splatoon.  Followed by...I think you get it.  Focusing advertising around exclusives sounds like a way to promote without torching mountains of money but Nintendo's execution means that they have never, ever built up sustained hype in the general buying public.  Yes, the informed buying public is knowledgeable enough but the general has to be told.  The majority of consumers don't frequent review sites and forums.

The general consumers wants to play Call of Duty and Destiny and FIFA and Madden and Fallout and Star Wars Battlefront and Far Cry and Grand Theft Auto and the Wii U does not have the next-gen versions of those IP. 

It's like telling a person you run a theater chain but you don't have Deadpool or Star Wars or Zootophia or Avengers or Jurassic World or Furious 7 or Inside Out playing but you have some even better reviewed indie film and/or foreign films playing at your theater. You likely are not going to get a mass crowd. 

It was also the same thing with the Sega Master System back in the day ... the Sega Master System had some wonderful exclusives ... Afterburner, Out Run, Alex Kid, Phantasy Star, Shinobi, etc. hell a lot of these were better than what the NES had, but the NES had every third party game and a selection of thousands of games ranging from Ice Hockey to Ninja Turtles to Punch-Out to Final Fantasy to Ninja Gaiden to Contra on top of Super Mario Bros. 

Having a handful of great games has never been enough in this business, people want a large variety of different types of games. Generally speaking this is impossible without third party support. 

The other problem is Nintendo's exclusives largely appeal to the same audience over and over again. It's not like Smash, Splatoon, Mario 3D, Mario Kart have dramatically different audiences. 



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Conina on 15 March 2016

I wonder how many of these Wii U exclusives stay exclusive and how many will be ported to NX.



RexSad on 15 March 2016
Ljink96 said:
It's a fact. Can't argue it. No reason to bring sales or any other fanboyism here. Just saying for people who will try because believe me, they will try. Nintendo's first party content, is amazing. Period.

Yet no one I know owns a WiiU. Even Wii owners. Nintendo's first party has not relevant since the GC and that is the last home console I owned from them. Nost of them are low budget 2D games that can not even compete eith indie games like Minecraft. Amazingly overrated indeed. I would rather play Supet Metroid than any WiiU or 3DS game.



JRPGfan on 15 March 2016
KingofTrolls said:
uran10 said:

Are you sure about this statement? Are you really really sure about this statement?

I think he has some right, and I got Wii for 4 years.. Nintnedo games are overvalued compared to other games.

Honestly it does come off abit as if the author has a agenda (hes obviously very pro nintendo).


Stuff like this:

Boutros said:

"For this analysis, we are defining “exclusive” as those games that are only available to play on a single console, and nowhere else."

92 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
76 Hyrule Warriors

I see how it is.

 

And the time he picked, to write the article, along with the critiera for which games "count" ect, its all heavily in favor of nintendo.

The methode is as important as the conclusions.



cainam on 15 March 2016

about 700 Users from german site GamersGlobal recently voted Nintendo to have the best exclusive games. And notice: most users there are into PC / PS4 / Xone but many of them voted for Nintendo still. You can read it in the comments section:

http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/106188/sonntagsfrage-welcher-der-konsolenhersteller-hat-die-besten-exklusivtitel-ergebnis



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aLkaLiNE on 15 March 2016
Bman54 said:
aLkaLiNE said:
WiiUs been out a year more.
Uncharted 4 is 90+ for sure

Even without the year head start, the Wii U would still have a sizeable lead.

This is why I still get Nintendo consoles. Their exclusives have always been my favourites, and the pump out a fairly good amount.

Well... alright. Here's a list of 2016 titles that have potential to be 75+ on Metacritic.

Ace Combat 7

Alienation

Drawn To Death

Dreams

Gran Turismo: Sport

Gravity Rush 2

Horizon Zero Dawn

Killstrain

The Last Guardian

Ratchet & Clank

Shadow Of The Beast

The Tomorrow Children

Uncharted 4

 

That leaves Sony 2 behind Nintendo when launches are aligned. That's not a bad looking portfolio in my opinion.



zorg1000 on 15 March 2016
RexSad said:


If games like Batman, MGS, COD and Fallout were on the WiiU the exclusives would be underwhelming for the platform.

Yep that's why Nintendo games underperformed on consoles with great 3rd party support like NES/SNES.



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Ljink96 on 15 March 2016
RexSad said:
Ljink96 said:
It's a fact. Can't argue it. No reason to bring sales or any other fanboyism here. Just saying for people who will try because believe me, they will try. Nintendo's first party content, is amazing. Period.

Yet no one I know owns a WiiU. Even Wii owners. Nintendo's first party has not relevant since the GC and that is the last home console I owned from them. Nost of them are low budget 2D games that can not even compete eith indie games like Minecraft. Amazingly overrated indeed. I would rather play Supet Metroid than any WiiU or 3DS game.

Ah, one of the people I was referring to.  This is a fact. It doesn't matter who owns what. The ratios don't matter. If a game scores 90% with an install base of 1 or 1 million, the general consensus is the game is being scored well no matter how many people own the console. Just because the last console you had was GC doesn't mean what you say is valid. If anything it invalidates your statement because you didn't play Nintendo's first party content on Wii, DS, 3DS, or WiiU. Usually, irrelivent things don't sell well. But Nintendo's first party content is selling quite well.



Ljink96 on 15 March 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Ljink96 said:
It's a fact. Can't argue it. No reason to bring sales or any other fanboyism here. Just saying for people who will try because believe me, they will try. Nintendo's first party content, is amazing. Period.

Sorry, but that isn't a fact and you absolutely can argue against it.

Add 'for some people' on the end and you could call it a fact, but not without that.

Well, I guess so. But for this analysis using data, for this specific data, it's true and has some merit. It does have twice as many top rated exlusives that PS4 and Xbone combined. Are the games good? Who knows? But the general idea of the thread is pure in presentation.



potato_hamster on 15 March 2016
TheBlackNaruto said:
I thought everyone already knew this. Yet the Wii U is still selling like trash. that's what is mind boggling...it has a lot of really good games but it seems like no one really wants it.

Because its cherry picking. Take all the games that both PS4 and Xbox One share that Nintendo doesn't have. Suddenly the number of top quality of games to play on say, PS4 completely dwarfs the Wii U. Now before you argue that "third party games don't count" remember that most people choose between as PS4 or an Xbox One or a Wii U, which means while third party games make little difference for someone deciding between a PS4 and an Xbox One, for someone deciding between a PS4 and a Wii U? It makes a HUGE difference.