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50+ indie games cancelled and still on for Wii U, in limbo, moved to Switch
- Thread starter AcademicSaucer
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I'd be more interested in a list of crowdfunded games that were either primarily promised for Wii U or added Wii U stretch goals that cancelled/never delivered on Wii U--that shit was chronic and in many cases it was obvious that it should never have been promised for Wii U to begin with, yet it kept happening (and people kept handing out money whenever the promise was made).
Infernal Monkey
Member
Starting?
It's because it kept working. People noticed big boosts when they added Wii U to their project, so people jumped on that train.
The Wii U just got a port of Darksiders 1 this week!
SporeCrawler
Member
yeah i saw that and thought that i would have double dipped if for switch. on wiiu at this point? nah
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Man that article's title really threw me off.
Neat reference list though.
Neat reference list though.
Even eShop diehards know better than to bother trying to squeeze updates out of Nicalis.
SinCityAssassin
Member
You mean give them a dev kit.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
If you read the article, almost every indie devs are interested or is planning to develop for Switch.
A lot of them screwed themselves by missing their own prospective release schedules by years. Shit happens.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah. Honestly, if you had a Wii U game in development beyond 2013, you probably knew the chances you were taking.
Not really taking a chance when you get an interest free loan from desperate Nintendo fans.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Who's fault is that tho
Jack Videogames
Member
NintendoEverything said:
Well, I mean, zombies ARE interesting
OrbitalBeard
Member
Regarding a bunch of Kickstarters, heh, that's actually a good point.
Not mine, never funded one and don't plan on changing that any time soon.
I was always amazed that people would forgive them if they offered refunds despite the fact that it happened once the finished product was on sale and making money and not when it hypothetically would have become apparent it wasn't happening.
AcademicSaucer
Member
They are now doing it with the Switch
I don't see why people have to be coy about stuff like Assault Android Cactus. If it ain't coming, just tell me so I can play it on PC.
Do really want Aztez on the Wii U, though.
Yeah the headline is a clusterfuck. There are 50 games on that list, each of which does (or doesn't!) fit into one of those three categories.
Occasionally something happens with a Kickstarter beyond the creators' hands -- for example, the Lobodestroyo guys got taken for a ride by Ouya. But when someone takes your money and uses it, as you say, as an interest-free loan, I neither forgive nor forget. It's clear in hindsight why some of these devs couldn't get regular funding in the first place.
However I will say that in my case, I backed these while the Canadian dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar, so I do come out ahead on refunds.
Do really want Aztez on the Wii U, though.
Yeah the headline is a clusterfuck. There are 50 games on that list, each of which does (or doesn't!) fit into one of those three categories.
Occasionally something happens with a Kickstarter beyond the creators' hands -- for example, the Lobodestroyo guys got taken for a ride by Ouya. But when someone takes your money and uses it, as you say, as an interest-free loan, I neither forgive nor forget. It's clear in hindsight why some of these devs couldn't get regular funding in the first place.
However I will say that in my case, I backed these while the Canadian dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar, so I do come out ahead on refunds.
Father_Brain
Banned
It sounds like a number of these ran into performance problems due to Unity being very badly optimized for Wii U, but that's just my conjecture.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
'We can give you a ticket with a number on it, sir.'
Heh, heh. Pretty much. No big deal, though. I have my hands full with the Wii U version at the moment. (Working on that now as a matter of fact.) If they get back to me or not, doesn't really matter that much. I was just kinda curious whether or not it could happen since people ask me all the time if the game can come to the NS. They're pretty busy over there, so I don't expect to hear anything anytime soon.
Yeah. Unity and Wii U don't mix. It's unfortunate, but here we are. I just hope I can get my game running at a nice 30fps, but it's not there yet.
Not really being coy, game development is just hard.
Nothing new to say sorry.
Hope you can get where you want to be.
*shrug* Dev kits aren't free, so I'm gonna go with the Wii U just so I can actually release a game using that dev kit. Maybe some folks will just write off the cost, but I figure if I'm gonna go through the trouble, then there's no point in half-assing it. Maybe the market potential is small, but at least I can justify the cost.
Hahaha. Good luck. I've been trying for 8 months now. Going to be a long wait. One day we will both get in!
That's true of Unity and other middleware like Construct but the other issue is that a lot of the indies that came to Wii U in particular simply had no idea what they were doing, either by promising a Wii U version or developing for Wii U at all.
The flipside to having such an open platform is it attracts beginner developers who don't necessarily know how to optimize a game for any platform or engine and who have never even finished a project before; I'm not saying those people should be excluded--I think Nintendo took the right approach and I hope they resume something similar on Switch--but it quickly became easy to spot the pros from the hobbyists when it came to Wii U announcements.
It's not going to happen to the same degree with Switch because a) the hardware and middleware support is a lot better by default, and b) the number of literal amateurs developing for the system is going to be extremely low, at least in the short term.
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