Why Nintendo Shouldn't Go Multiplatform

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 26th, 2013, 4:08 pm

Sebastian Lawe wrote:Look at the orientation of the Wii's text in the ad

There actually are black Wiis with the text written like that. A couple of my friends have that.

hariboman · Post by **hariboman** » August 26th, 2013, 4:12 pm

but still if you're going to proclaim wii-u advertising as terrible just because they got the IMAGE wrong (it'd be worse if they labelled it as an extension, WHICH THEY DONT) then thats kinda silly

Post by **ThatOneFox** » August 26th, 2013, 4:14 pm

hariboman wrote:but still if you're going to proclaim wii-u advertising as terrible just because they got the IMAGE wrong (it'd be worse if they labelled it as an extension, WHICH THEY DONT) then thats kinda silly

You should join TTA's 'cool' guy alliance...

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 26th, 2013, 4:17 pm

Zelda Dungeon just shared this on facebook. Thought it might be relevant.

hariboman · Post by **hariboman** » August 26th, 2013, 4:17 pm

StreetLights wrote:You should join TTA's 'cool' guy alliance...

i hate going off topic, but why?

Post by **ThatOneFox** » August 26th, 2013, 4:19 pm

ElectroYoshi wrote:Zelda Dungeon just shared this on facebook. Thought it might be relevant.

So, MS is abandoning the 360 for exclusives. Well, all the more reason for me to sell it.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 26th, 2013, 4:21 pm

StreetLights wrote:So, MS is abandoning the 360 for exclusives. Well, all the more reason for me to sell it.

Well, that's not my point. If you look at the Wii U's bar, you'll see that Nintendo are much better off in terms of third-party support than they normally are... Kinda gets ya wondering what changed, doesn't it?

hariboman · Post by **hariboman** » August 26th, 2013, 4:22 pm

ElectroYoshi wrote:Zelda Dungeon just shared this on facebook. Thought it might be relevant.

it's worth noting that games that are being released for both 3DS and Wii-U (the former not shown in this graph) are counted as 'multiplatform' for Wii-U. Some are ports of games already on PC. This list proves nothing, beyond that you just throw graphs at us with no explanation.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 28th, 2013, 8:15 pm

Does no one else wonder how the Wii U suddenly has 33-34 multiplatform games coming to it? Nintendo aren't that great with third party support, so you can't tell me that's not at least a little out of nowhere.

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » August 28th, 2013, 9:28 pm

ElectroYoshi wrote:Does no one else wonder how the Wii U suddenly has 33-34 multiplatform games coming to it? Nintendo aren't that great with third party support, so you can't tell me that's not at least a little out of nowhere.

It could be possible that Nintendo is paying some other game companies to manufacture for their console, much like Microsoft payed Square Enix to start making Final Fantasy games on Xbox consoles.

I personally have yet to to see a graphically intensive game on the Wii U, but if Nintendo can convince third parties to cater graphics to their console as well, both the Xbox 360 and PS4 will become obsolete in the sense that their raw power won't actually be used.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 28th, 2013, 9:58 pm

Sebastian Lawe wrote:It could be possible that Nintendo is paying some other game companies to manufacture for their console, much like Microsoft payed Square Enix to start making Final Fantasy games on Xbox consoles.

Yeah, that strikes me as a likely possibility. Either that or companies were just waiting for Wii U sales to improve.

Post by **ThatOneFox** » August 29th, 2013, 3:29 pm

ElectroYoshi wrote:Either that or companies were just waiting for Wii U sales to improve.

Which might happen now that the wii-u's price has been dropped

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » August 29th, 2013, 3:54 pm

StreetLights wrote:Which might happen now that the wii-u's price has been dropped

I think it's just the deluxe package's price that dropped.

Personally, I think Nintendo needs to just axe the basic set altogether and market the deluxe set as just, y'know, "Wii U".

Post by **ThatOneFox** » August 29th, 2013, 3:55 pm

They tried pulling an Xbox (Xbox 360 arcade, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Elite) and it failed.

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » August 30th, 2013, 4:52 pm

This next generation of gaming consoles has been quite interesting, and two haven't even been released yet.

Kiriel · Post by **Kiriel** » August 30th, 2013, 5:02 pm

What are the other two?

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » August 30th, 2013, 5:09 pm

Computoguy wrote:What are the other two?

PS4 and Xbox One.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » September 1st, 2013, 1:50 pm

I just stumbled across this on IGN. I think it proves once and for all that people aren't giving the Wii U enough credit.