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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AstraeusPosted:
They wouldn't really gain much money off the Wii U so i can see why they are doing it
TaigaAisakaPosted:
_Bale Never really tried the Wii-U, doesn't look all that bad though.
I haven't tried it either but I was planning on getting it for the new Super Smash Bros game to try that out.
slapshot101Posted:
It seems like these days that not many developers have Wii U in their short term radar because their is not enough money in it. Well people won't buy the consoles without these games so without the games nobody will buy the console and without the customers they won't develop the games, it's a vicious cycle.
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