Wiiu users (and any videogame user, in fact) should buy the game if they want to play. We shouldn't care about any message. I don't buy games so i can buy more games in the future. I buy games so i can play games now.
I didn't got Yakuza and will not buy ever. Already played on the PS2, downloaded the demo and there was no reason to buy again. You can say i'm part of the problem, but i'm not giving 5000 yen for anyone just because i want to show support.
It's not a shitty port and was actually marketed. Yakuza is one of the biggest 3rd party franchises in Japan. Either way it's very transparent they were gauging interest to potentially have the franchise go multiplat. That wont happen now, which is NOT encouraging to other pubs.
so... Yakuza is a shitty port now?
alright, let me be clear here...
I'm not calling it "shitty port" implying that the games are bad or something like that.
I'm calling it "shitty port" because it's a port that was already released on another console a year ago and they are still charging full price.
it falls in the same category as ME3, Batman AC, NFS, AC3 and COD:BLOPS2... it's just absurd to think that those games that are already available on other platforms would do good numbers on the WiiU
and as I said before... IF those games got good numbers on the WiiU, it shows the developers that they can port whatever old game they have, (because it's easy money); and the WiiU would get more and more games like that.
here's the catch:
the market audience for those games are either
-"Core gamers" Nintendo fans who went "nintendo only" last generation (for whatever reasons they had)
-"Core gamers" in general, that probably owned either a 360 or PS3 last generation.
The first group of people are buying those games, and as we can see, the numbers are small.
The second group of people already owns those games, or they can get it a LOT cheaper on other console (also, achievements and trophies).
So, yeah... all those (good) games are "shitly" planned, "shitly" marketed, and "shitly" produced (framerate issues)... so, yeah, they are shitty ports for me.