Wii U not on Bethesda's short-term radar
"None of the game's we've announced are being developed for the Wii U, so it's guaranteed that none of those games are coming to Wii U," Bethesda VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines told us at QuakeCon, with regards to The Elder Scrolls Online, Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Evil Within. "Will any future ones come out? I can't say for sure, in our near-term focus it's not on our radar."
"It's largely a hardware thing," Hines said, explaining that Bethesda's mantra is to "make the games that we want to make, on whatever platforms will support them as developed." Giving an example, he said that The Elder Scrolls Online "likely would have" been released on Xbox 360, but that it "just wasn't possible" due to hardware limitations. Specifically referencing future announcements for the Wii U, Hines said that "it remains to be seen what the future holds."
This differs from the Wii U publishing reservations we've heard of from other companies, in that Bethesda's decision is based on hardware limitations, rather than the Wii U's lackluster performance at retail. EA, for instance, isn't bringing this year's installments of FIFA or Madden to Nintendo's platform due to the limited size of the console's installed user base. Similarly, Ubisoft was so confident that the Wii U would be unable to support the kind of sales it needed for Rayman Legends, that it delayed the game's release and extended its availability to other platforms.
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slapshot101Posted:
I think that for many games the cost to do the development on this console due tot eh fact of the different controls, cost a ton of money and for most companies it is not worth it with the low sales of the Wii U console.
KatsumiPosted:
Nintendo has absolutely no reason to quit just because of the Wii U, they do have other devices which are doing pretty well in the market.
MentalistPosted:
AlbericiAggie I played my friends Wii U for the first time and let me tell you that it is so bad.
lol tell your friend to get a xbox because the wii sucks
Hahaha, or he could get a PS3 and have fun ;) Who wants the Wii anyway? It's a unwanted christmas gift.
AlbericiPosted:
Aggie I played my friends Wii U for the first time and let me tell you that it is so bad.
lol tell your friend to get a xbox because the wii sucks
Dr-PonyfilePosted:
Pufferfish They wouldn't really gain much money off the Wii U so i can see why they are doing it
As far as I am concerned the WiiU is a flop in my eyes and I cannot see many developers making near enough no profit from it the only big game I know on the WiiU which isn't even out yet is COD Ghosts with Activision.
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