You have this library of great games yet people don't want to buy the console to play them, then you hear the constant port begging for said games.
If people want to play these games so damn bad then perhaps they should buy the hardware because the hardware is the only means to play those games. You buy a console for games, not specs.
I agree with all of that, but I was talking in response to a specific post
I think they meant it like "don't toy with my emotions" because they WANT the port.
As someone who bought the combo pack on launch day I would be THRILLED for a PS4 port. It would look phenomenal, that game has terrible aliasing.
I also am all for more people experiencing great games, it's a damn shame such an awesome game is stranded on such a low-selling system.
Of course, it's not happening.
Which isn't port-begging, mentions already owning the game, and touches on the fact that the Wii U's bombing has potentially trapped many games (which will be a big issue for collectors going forth - just look at the secondhand Saturn market).
The context makes it clear that it's not port-begging. My post was trying to interpret the point that HotHamBoy was trying to make, which someone else had misconstrued.
People who actually are port-begging... Yeah, that's lame as hell. Don't do that. The fact that this thread just became port-begging and then talking about port-begging on a meta level is weird and shows that 4 years on, some hills are impossible for people to get over.
But I mean, generally speaking, not like I would advocate it or anything since I usually keep it to myself, but I can understand why buying a console for just a couple games isn't feasible for some people. Plunking down hundreds on a 360 just to play, say, Tales of Vesperia, a game I may or may not like and have lived without for this long... It's a big investment with risky gains. The Wii U also only became truly worth owning from a software perspective during an awkward period - 2014, when the PS4 and XB1 showed up with far more promising futures, and that software momentum crashed and burned in 2015 just as those other consoles hit their stride. I can see why potential buyers who took the wait-and-see approach were eventually dissuaded.
So basically, I'm not defending port begging at all. I think it's lame to do as a practice, but I
A) Understand that not everybody can buy every system, so I can emphasize with those who're genuinely interested but cannot access a game
B) As a Wii U owner, think it's a shame that to many, the hardware wasn't appealing enough to win people over compared to its contemporaries, thus preventing many games from finding an audience that could have liked them.
