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Am 16.11.15 um 21:57 schrieb Rin Stowleigh:

> Maybe Nintendo wanted to frighten away the developers who would just
> end up doing a lackluster port of some Metal Gear Solid game or
> whatever.  Who needs yet another platform to play games like that?
> What's great about Nintendo games is (as you said) the guarantee if it
> has their name on it, it's not going to be shovelware.  If I were a
> third-party developer who didn't have a similar commitment to quality,
> I would run like hell too (and blame it on weak hardware if that's
> convenient).. lol
>
My personal guess is, they want to carry the Dolphin platform along as 
long as possible for many reasons (backwards compatibility, tooling they 
have written for that platform). The platform has existed since the 
gamecube. Back then it was a real powerhouse.

Whatever there intention was, it backfired. The Wii basically was 
drowned in Shovelware and nobody could find the good titles anymore, 
although they existed, because the hardware was to weak to port the AAA 
games of that time, and the installbase was huge with mostly casual 
gamers (although Okami, my all time Wii favorite was a hardcore PS2 
port, but forget generally about XBOX360/PS3 ports on that platform).


The Wii-U basically has only a smaller install base of hardcore Nintendo 
fans hence the shovelware producers stay away from it like a plaque and 
pester the more successful IOS/Android/Nintendo 3ds devices.
But the problem is that the hardware is not good enough to run the most 
recent bunch of AAA titles no matter what and hence the Wii-U is 
delegated to its own rather unsuccessful corner of the console universe.
As much as I hate some those games, but if a console does not run COD, 
GTA, Asassins Creed etc... it is bound to fail in the mass market, period.


Either way I think Nintendo got the message, their upcoming NX console 
is supposed to be way more powerful. The Wii-U unfortunately won´t make 
a full 7 years cycle for better or worse.