I was talking about stuff like
this interview with a developer from Epic who literally laughs when asked about WiiU. Then
later he remembers he needs to act like a professional and walks back the comment. I've honestly lost track how many times I've seen shit like this since 2013.
I just love how people conveniently forget the GameCube had no "gimmicks" and was overpowered compared to PS2. Or how the Wii was outselling both PS3 and 360 put together at various points and still not being treated like a primary platform by western developers. Or how Nintendo throws money time and again at developers but for whatever reason that doesn't count.
It doesn't matter what Nintendo does; there's always some weak sauce reason for why the planets didn't exactly line up for their machines to receive this or that game. They always end up with shovelware or late ports or purposefully gimped releases and always with tacked on and unnecessary crap that was never intended to be in the game but let's add it anyway because damned if I know why. Like EA purposefully sending out Mass Effect 3 to die on WiiU when they had a remastered collection just around the corner. Or Deus Ex Director's Cut at full price instead of the half price release everyone other system got because it had "extra features!" that nobody asked for.
Even now the shit is happening again with Switch.
.