Hiltz said:
That's a good point and I do hope your right. I just believe that Nintendo gamers will continue to be the most picky when it comes to choosing third-party games.
I don't know if that's a fair statement.
For one, I think because of the ridiculous amount of systems Nintendo sold to casuals it had skewed the install base somewhat, I do not for a second believe it was fair to assume that even half of the Wiis sold in the US were really sold to gamers that were really willing to go out and buy third party hardcore games. I believe that realistically speaking they were probably about where they were with the Gamecube when it comes to actual gamers willing to buy actual games. What we have with the Wii and the Gamecube before it is truly a user base so small compared to the other systems when it comes to users in the fold for these hardcore games that some people expect us to buy all of them! I'm sorry but no, I can't afford everything and I'm sure as fuck not going to buy every niche hardcore release in some vain attempt to hopefully influence a future niche title I want coming to the US or being developed. I'm not doing that. I'm not even positive I'm getting the Wii-U this time around, I can only afford so many niche titles and frankly this gen I think a 360 or even PSP would have been a better third console for me as I have a PS3, Wii and 3DS(now was a DS before) and I couldn't afford every game at release I wanted on those systems either. I am not going to just buy everything above average to great but not my thing on a Nintendo system as an attempt to bribe third parties. That's Nintendo's job, it's their job to sell these things to more people willing to buy games not my job to support everyone who makes an honest effort regardless of my taste hoping to make it to where the existing shit user base will hopefully be seen as sufficient for not getting scraps.
Second, again the Wii ports were almost always terribly inferior, not just inferior but almost lacking in every God damn conceivable way that to call them terribly inferior is a fair statement. Graphically, unless it was a port of a PS2 game and even still sometimes true in that regard like with Okami, they were markedly worse. Not on par but worse, slightly worse, or good enough but so bad that they generally looked like utter dog shit side by side to the real thing. Then there was the almost always terrible on-line which hurt not only multiplayer but even DLC which is unfortunately a standard these days.
So I don't think actual Wii gamers were the most picky there just weren't ever as many of us as they thought in the first place and among us there wasn't enough to support different kinds of niche titles and of the titles that weren't niche they were generally clearly inferior and not worth buying on the Wii.
I do not think the Wii-U will have this problem to the same extent. The online may or may not continue being inferior but I expect it'll get a lot more capable ports this time around and I despite how powerful the next gen HD twin's systems may be I have a hard time believing there will truly be that many AAA games that just truly go all fucking out balls to the wall on them that it makes the Wii-U look like total ass.