Well if I cant have the physical WiiU version, then I want a physical NX version! That's a given I hope.

I saw this, which is really unfortunate

Mainly the reason why I will not kickstart video games

Hyper Light Drifter is a small game. They wouldn't need a porting team to port it.

I'm not being defensive, I'm just being logical. You can't compare this to Bloodstained because:

1. The size of their development team is different.

2. Bloodstained is much more ambitious.

I have tried to talk about the pratfalls of crowdfunding, and why I will never do it with a facebook group I was in, and the blowback among it's proponents was significant, even with demonstable evidence to support my idea that the potential for flim-flamerry exists. They make, I buy. That's my policy.

I wonder if this does anything to the Vita version at all?

Armature was supposed to write the middleware bring Bloodstained's UE4 build over WiiU and Vita. Considering Vita is evaporating from the West even more quickly than the WiiU they may drop the Vita version - or focus exclusively on it?

I'm kinda in the camp that kickstarter games are pretty much a scam. Even if they do happen there are very few examples of good kickstarter games.

Whatever you say Mr. Preston ;)

But more seriously, I'm beginning to forget what the point is here.  That we should be more sympathetic to Hyper Light Drifter?  Or Bloodstained?  Or neither?  Or both?

Sure, team sizes are different, but if you go to Kickstarter for money then add stretch goals for certain platforms, you make provisions for how you can get the games on to those platforms.  Team size; ambition of game has nothing to do with it - you factor in the effort it'll take to get the games onto those platforms and budget accordingly.  By the looks of things, HLD budgeted $100k while Bloodstained budgeted $250k, which sounds about proportionate based on what you're telling me about ambitions of projects.

As a side note, I do find HLD's situation more excusable given the fact that he assumed the issues between Gamemaker & Nintendo would've been worked out and they never were, which is largely out of his control.  Bloodstained being based in an engine which never worked with WiiU or Vita is just stupid.  Hence why I never backed it.

Some good has come from Kickstarter.

The Good: Pillars of eternity, Divinity : Original Sin, Yooka-Laylee (looks great).

The bad:  Shadowrun returns, planetary annihilation, wasteland 2, Mighty Nr 9.

It goes to show that money will always be more important than the fans for most developers. I mean the game has been payed for by us, so they have nothing to lose, but still they dont want to release it on a failing console because theres less chance to make money on it.

It's a strange one.  We know Wii U is going to be all but discontinued by March 2017 seeing their shipment forecast for this upcoming year; the number of games scheduled for release beyond April 2017 and the scheduled release window of the NX.  Vita, we just don't know - I suspect the system will be alive well beyond March 2017 in Japan; but the west is another story, I don't think there's been any 'official' discontinuation notice but equally there's very little stock left around as it is.

The other issue is successors - WiiU has one that it's logical to move to; Vita has none, so who knows where that audience will move.

With that said, if the WiiU version goes, I am 99% certain that the Vita version will be canned as well.  Either you support legacy systems or you don't; I don't think one will get special treatment when the other doesn't.