Nintendo will develop and sell new hardware consoles aimed at emerging markets as it fights to climb out of a global slump it has fallen into in recent years.
Despite having a head start of a year, Nintendo's Wii U sales are actually lower than that of Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) consoles, despite the latter only launching in the holiday season in 2013. Consumers in major western markets ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: The WII U is good enough from a software point of view but the lack of focus on standardized controls, ease of development, relations with other devs its just not worth the effort to develop for it for most devs.
+1...This is what is hurting Nintendo; when big developers shun your console, it's bad news. Yeah, everyone knows most the new COD games are more of the same, just a shiny new wrapper (if even that), but they still sell like hotcakes. -by not even offering Advanced Warfare on the WiiU, Nintendo is missing out on potential console sales. How many? Who knows. Hard to say. Could be thousands....
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: The WII U is good enough from a software point of view but the lack of focus on standardized controls, ease of development, relations with other devs its just not worth the effort to develop for it for most devs.
+1...This is what is hurting Nintendo; when big developers shun your console, it's bad news. Yeah, everyone knows most the new COD games are more of the same, just a shiny new wrapper (if even that), but they still sell like hotcakes. -by not even offering Advanced Warfare on the WiiU, Nintendo is missing out on potential console sales. How many? Who knows. Hard to say. Could be thousands....
To be fair CoD for Nintendo gets announced leading up to the holidays.
To be fair CoD for Nintendo gets announced leading up to the holidays.
Fair enough...I was going off of the official COD website that is advertising availability for PS3 & 4, Xbox 360 & One, and PC. No mention of Wii or WiiU.
http://www.callofduty.com/advancedwarfare/buy
COD was only an example off the top of my head....just seems like Nintendo has been taking it on the chin from a lot of developers, lately. (EA)
