Wii U not on Bethesda's short-term radar

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Wii U owners hoping for a little Bethesda-brand steampunk/open world/pseudo-historical/massively multiplayer whatever may want to start grazing other pastures, as Nintendo's console is nowhere to be seen on the publisher's horizon.

"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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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/06/wii-u-not-on-bethesdas-short-term-radar/

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_BalePosted:

Never really tried the Wii-U, doesn't look all that bad though.

KatsumiPosted:

Ranzee
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Purity Bethesda knows better than to waste their money on that


Yeah, they wont get any profits from the WII U


I agree with you both, Bethesda know way better!


Imagine Skyrim on the WII U. Lag LOL


Porting a game like Oblivion or Fallout 3 would be a better option in my opinion, I could picture the Wii U running Skyrim on Low settings at around 20-25fps


Skyrim on the Wii would be pretty beast, if they'd do it though.. Not sure.


I've always wanted to see if oblivion or morrowind could be ported to the original Wii with the motion controller, it would be a lot of fun in my opinion

JastyPosted:

Wii-U Has a tough break for everything, some awesome dev's are looking away from this system.

KenjishuPosted:

Ranzee
Katsumi
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Purity Bethesda knows better than to waste their money on that


Yeah, they wont get any profits from the WII U


I agree with you both, Bethesda know way better!


Imagine Skyrim on the WII U. Lag LOL


Porting a game like Oblivion or Fallout 3 would be a better option in my opinion, I could picture the Wii U running Skyrim on Low settings at around 20-25fps


Skyrim on the Wii would be pretty beast, if they'd do it though.. Not sure.


To be honest it would just be a waste of money the wii u is a failing console it would offer no profit to Bethesda

LWRPosted:

Katsumi
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Purity Bethesda knows better than to waste their money on that


Yeah, they wont get any profits from the WII U


I agree with you both, Bethesda know way better!


Imagine Skyrim on the WII U. Lag LOL


Porting a game like Oblivion or Fallout 3 would be a better option in my opinion, I could picture the Wii U running Skyrim on Low settings at around 20-25fps


Skyrim on the Wii would be pretty beast, if they'd do it though.. Not sure.

KatsumiPosted:

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Purity Bethesda knows better than to waste their money on that


Yeah, they wont get any profits from the WII U


I agree with you both, Bethesda know way better!


Imagine Skyrim on the WII U. Lag LOL


Porting a game like Oblivion or Fallout 3 would be a better option in my opinion, I could picture the Wii U running Skyrim on Low settings at around 20-25fps

KatsumiPosted:

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slaughtercell This makes sense cause xbox one and ps4 specs are almost the same and its easy to port it to PC... Wii U has bad specs


Yeah, they're pretty bad.


Apparently the Specifications of the Wii U are below that of the Xbox 360 and the PS3

PlusnetPosted:

slaughtercell This makes sense cause xbox one and ps4 specs are almost the same and its easy to port it to PC... Wii U has bad specs


Yeah, they're pretty bad.

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Cyimking Nitendo, just needs to make a console that focuses on Mature Gamers instead of little kids. Let's face it. The kids who grew up on Super Mario are adults now. Just like pokemon. No kids in this generation are going to want to play those kids games. Therefore, they should make their next console for the Mature Gamer. From there, they can regain control.


I'm not throwing your idea away, but that would almost seem like they're trying to compete with Xbox, PlayStation and PC when it comes to those type of games. Nintendo is more known for their games. Now I do get what you mean by the people who grew up on their older games are older and may have moved on from Nintendo or gaming in general, but that's what Nintendo grew off of. They should take a chance with different stuff while still keeping those games going.

xxxvrEverPosted:

Cyimking Nitendo, just needs to make a console that focuses on Mature Gamers instead of little kids. Let's face it. The kids who grew up on Super Mario are adults now. Just like pokemon. No kids in this generation are going to want to play those kids games. Therefore, they should make their next console for the Mature Gamer. From there, they can regain control.


Thats what im thinking, those games are over.


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