Dr.Vita said:
I want to be honest, this is a bad move from Nintendo to all the people who bought a Wii U day one.
I really feel sorry for them, they bought a Wii U to play all the Nintendo games but the support dropped really fast from Nintendo. And now after only 3 years there will be a new Nintendo console which will get most of the Wii U games ported. :/ |
Well, as long as we're wanting to be honest, here's what I don't think...
I don't think you really feel sorry for the few hundred thousand day one Wii U owners. Covetous, perhaps, invidious almost certainly, but not sorry.
I don't think you've bothered to familiarize yourself with Nintendo's output on the Wii U, or its output on previous systems, else you'd have realized it's nearly exactly the same number of games they've published on the Wii, Gamecube, and N64 for the comparable time frame, making it rather difficult to argue the same folks you're allegedly pitying aren't getting what they've supposedly paid for. And before trying to retroactively clarify that you meant support going forward, I advise taking a gander at the number of games Nintendo published in years five-plus on the Gamecube and N64. Most of the day one Wii U owners don't need to do so, as they're familiar with the cycle by now.
I don't think you've taken even a casual look at the Wii U library after three and a half years, else you'd have realized that roughly four games is not even remotely close to "most" of Nintendo's Wii U games. Or maybe I'm wrong and you have taken that casual look, buuuuuuut.....
I'm sorry to say I don't think you're great at math. If a console releases at the end of 2012, and its successor releases no sooner than the end of 2016, how many years separate the two?
Now, here's what I do think. I do think the Wii U was poorly conceived, and that while it's unfortunate for the Wii U's biggest supporters that the system (likely) went about a year less than most Nintendo home consoles prolonging the misery is not in the best interest of anyone except the very small handful of active Wii U owners who really want Nintendo games but will not migrate over to the NX.
I do think I'd rather have the resources devoted to porting these mystery games instead put on developing new titles, as these clearly didn't have strong enough appeal to the mass market to make the hardware outpace the Dreamcast or even ultimately reach the Gamecube, but I'll settle for hoping the resources here are both limited and primarily devoted to helping newbies cut their teeth. Oh, the lies we tell ourselves.
Finally, I do think that aside from Zelda these games are unlikely to do gangbusters, but then I don't even know a thing about the NX or even the games that'll get ported, so who knows.
Huh, my therapist was right: being honest kinda blows.
