Kotaku asks publishers if their Q1/Q2 games are coming to Wii U, shares responses

[Nirolak]

Their answers are here.

Note: Since people are confused, this is about multiplatform games. Inherently Wii U exclusives are coming to the Wii U, so Kotaku wouldn't need to ask.

Since copy pasting the answers would basically be taking the whole article, I'll just list the games they asked about.

The titles they ask about are:

Aliens: Colonial Marines
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
BioShock Infinite
Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2
Crysis 3
Dead Island Riptide
Dead Space 3
DmC
Fuse
Grand Theft Auto V
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metro Last Light
Remember Me
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Tomb Raider

Feel free to debate interpretation of any nebulous answers. You can of course quote any answers you want into this thread.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

"Most of Early 2013’s Biggest Games Seem to Be Skipping Wii U"

Oh boy...

 

[Plinko]

With the quality of the current ports, I'm not sure this is a horrible thing.

Also, Wii all over again. Nintendo teams up with their next console as the third-party relationships appear to be beyond fixing.

 

[Nemesis_]

Kotaku really is the cultural zenith of games journalism.

 

[Toki767]

It sure didn't take developers long to abandon the platform.

 

[The Boat]

What a surprise!

 

[Crawl]

Guys don't worry, EA is committed to the Wii U I am sure BF4 will have exclusive DLC offerings on the Wii U.

 

[Aquamarine]

It sure didn't take developers long to abandon the platform.

If I was a developer, I'd take a wait-and-see approach as well.

It's the only logical way to approach this kind of thing. Why invest the money in a port if it's not going to pay off?

 

[Canis lupus]

Whats the multiplatforms releasing on the WiiU in that period besides Aliens?

 

[Hero of Legend]

Why ask about Aliens and Injustice? We know they're coming!

Half weren't clear answers, and besides, would they even say yes if it wasn't announced?

Better question is, are they making anything at the moment? I hope Insomniac is cooking up something.

 

[metalslimer]

While I don't think most of the stuff not announced is coming, no plans doesn't mean a thing. Remember Warren Spector saying Epic Mickey 2 wasn't coming to Wii U because they got a dev kit too late? If they are actually in development and haven't been announced yet these people couldn't say yes or no if EA,Ubi,etc. didn't want them too.

 

[TheBioLover]

Out of all those games, Injustice and Aliens are the only ones confirmed to be coming to Wii U, while Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell are rumoured.

 

[schuelma]

Article missing the biggest and best Wii U exclusive for Q1 and proably for all eternity.

 

[erpg]

I'm sure they're wondering whether or not it's financially viable to work on learning and rewriting your tools to fit a platform that you plan on abandoning development for in a few months anyway (or sooner, if they're already deep on newer PS4/720 tech).

 

[kinggroin]

Bahahaha Holy Fuck!

Reality is a bitch.

Edit: Monster Hunter and Ray man will suffice in any event, but some of those games I would have passedon the PC version for the OTP factor

 

[meltingparappa]

(actually, I have no idea how profitable or not hiring a company to port a product is)

 

[LQX]

The Wii is next gen....why would people want last gen games on it? Is it really shocking though? Many of those games have been in development for years specifically for PS3 and 360. I would imagine it would take a lot more work, time and money that would not pay off porting them also to the Wii U. I think when the next round of games go into development we will see day one releases also on the Wii U.

 

[Gravijah]

post-SNES Nintendo console lacking third party support? hmmmmm.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Also, there's lots of evidence pointing to Blacklist making it, hell the answer pretty far from a no anyway.

 

[Derrick01]

post-SNES Nintendo console lacking third party support? hmmmmm.

You'd think it would be common sense by now but there are/were still a lot of people on here who thought it would be different this time.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

The troubling part about this is it won't get any better when the next Sony and MS consoles release.

 

[Plinko]

Bahahaha Holy Fuck!

Reality is a bitch.

What does this even mean?

 

[chickdigger802]

"No plans," according to a rep for EA.

 

[batbeg]

Did they really expect any surprise confirmations...?

 

[cloudyy]

The main question I ask here is: where are the japanese developed games? MGS:R and? Get your shit together japan.

 

[commish]

The Wii is next gen....why would people want last gen games on it? Is it really shocking though? Many of those games have been in development for years specifically for PS3 and 360. I would imagine it would take a lot more work, time and money that would not pay off porting them also to the Wii U.

Not sure if serious.

 

[Canis lupus]

The Wii is next gen....why would people want last gen games on it? Is it really shocking though? Many of those games have been in development for years specifically for PS3 and 360. I would imagine it would take a lot more work, time and money that would not pay off porting them also to the Wii U.

Dark Souls 2 is skipping WiiU aswel, DS1 came out after WiiU was revealed btw.

 

[Twenty7KVN]

Why ask about Aliens and Injustice? We know they're coming!

Half weren't clear answers, and besides, would they even say yes if it wasn't announced?

Better question is, are they making anything at the moment? I hope Insomniac is cooking up something.

Exactly this article is pretty much useless,we already new most of the answers already.

 

[kunonabi]

meh, Revengeance is the only title on that list worth a damn anyway.

 

[Kunan]

EA seems to have had quite the falling out with Nintendo. First that ME3-only port against the Trilogy, and now nothing. Can't believe Riccitiello even took the stage in E3 2011. Something had to have happened after that.

 

[impact]

So basically just that shitty looking Aliens game and Injustice. Who said Wii U would suck for third party games?!?!

 

[SmokyDave]

It'll be interesting to see which receives more 3rd party support between the Vita and the Wii-U.

 

[Levyne]

Article missing the biggest and best Wii U exclusive for Q1 and proably for all eternity.

?

 

[RPGCrazied]

I never bought Nintendo hardware for its 3rd party support. I love Zelda an Metroid. When I see games of either franchise on a system, I buy it. Those franchises are system sellers to me. And whatever Monolith does.

 

[Zane]

Come on, third parties. What are ya doin.

edit: Now that I think about it, most if not all of these games were already deep in development by the time Wii U launched or was even announced. I think we'll see third party games coming to the Wii U once some time has passed and developers start making games that haven't been in development up to now.

 

[VariantX]

Basically , what we already knew months ago. Wii U is a system that will live and die by its exclusives.

 

[shinobi602]

Wii all over again.

 

[RM8]

Lack of 3rd party support sucks and it's going to harm WiiU, no other way around it.

But - well, we've owned a PS3 and/or 360 for a while now, I personally see no loss for me. Whenever I decide to buy a WiiU it won't be because of stuff I can already play on my PS3 or PC. Stuff like The Wonderful 101 will make me buy a WiiU, so I think the lack of original content is way worse than the lack of ports.

 

[kinggroin]

It'll be interesting to see which receives more 3rd party support between the Vita and the Wii-U.

Vita is in the lead at the moment, no?

Quantity wise anyway.

The Wii U has got the better games though.

 

[Hero of Legend]

?

Seconded, what would that be? Pikmin? Lego? You hiding something from us man?

 

[I'm an expert]

Come on, third parties. What are ya doin.

Trying to make money. Or not lose it in this case.

 

[Twenty7KVN]

Dark Souls 2 is skipping WiiU aswel, DS1 came out after WiiU was revealed btw.

A petition has started so we'll see how that goes.

 

[Coxy]

?

Is this Wii U exclusive coming to Wii U? Dammit kotaku we need answers.

 

[Nirolak]

Article missing the biggest and best Wii U exclusive for Q1 and proably for all eternity.

Sorry if it wasn't clear, but this is for multiplatform titles.

 

[metalslimer]

It'll be interesting to see which receives more 3rd party support between the Vita and the Wii-U.

Well Wii U will probably actually be around for a couple of years more so.....

A petition has started so we'll see how that goes.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

It'll be interesting to see which receives more 3rd party support between the Vita and the Wii-U.

Hopefully the Vita, it needs it a lot more.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

I see some people are missing the point of that article. It's not about Nintendo exclusives, or about asking or not asking about games already announced. It's about the biggest multiplatform games for Q1/Q2 2013.

 

[Ranger X]

There's something really interesting in that post.
This opinion here purely represents what's wrong with this industry and how wrong marketers and publishers can be:

"We really developed the game based on these two consoles [PS3, 360] and the Wii U, we think, is unique in a way that the controller is innovative and the entire console's pretty much not hand-in-hand with the consoles that we're making it for now. So if we were going to make it for the Wii U we'd have to start from zero again and really design something for that console, so we could say 100% that it was a good game for this console."

This is really beyond ridiculous. Videogames are videogames and thinking you know your maket too much will actually make you lose important sales and installed base. It should be about getting the game out of as many platforms as possible, fuck the whatever particularity some hardware is having, wtf.

 

[Plinko]

EA seems to have had quite the falling out with Nintendo. First that ME3-only port against the Trilogy, and now nothing. Can't believe Riccitiello even took the stage in E3 2011. Something had to have happened after that.

It has to be that Origin rumor.

It'll be interesting to see which receives more 3rd party support between the Vita and the Wii-U.

What's the difference between "none" and "none?"