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6/10/2013 4:38:45 PM
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Why no Destiny for the Wii U

To my understanding, the Wii U is similar in capabilities to the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Why is Destiny being released for those consoles, but not the Wii U?

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  • The Wii-U won't get destiny for two reasons: A) The latest COD and Battlefield games sold around 20 million copies (of each game) on the 360/PS3 while only selling around 2 million copies (again of each) on PC/Wii. This means those markets arnt really worth developing for. The only profitable way would be if they were crappy easy to do ports, but anything requiring major development attention wouldn't be cost efficient. I know Destiny =\= CoD BO2 or BF3, but they're the best predictors to base off of ad the largest multi platform FPSs. B) It is true that the Wii-u is technically superior to the 360/ps3, but with 1/4 the ram it is woefully lacking against the other two major next gens. While destiny is initially available on current and next gen, it is unrealistic to expect Bungie to continue developing for those current gen systems 5-10 years down the road. At some point destiny will become a PS4/One/(possibly PC) only title. Once that happens the Wii-U is no match hardware wise to run games designed for the specifications of its more powerful brethren. As a side note/commentary on Nintendo this last problem illustrates the major technical issues with creating a next gen console that is 4x better than current gen but 1/4 weaker then other next gens. It artificially creates a ceiling where it simply will be unable to handle multi platform games after a point and any multi platform game to appear on the Wii-U will have to have severe sacrifices (either on the game as a whole or the Wii-u version) to meet the hardware restrictions of the lesser console. This is why the Wii-u continues to have shit for 3rd party support because it just doesn't make sense as a developer to develop for two different hardware specifications outside of the window immediately surrounding the change of console generations. Especially if the weaker system (Wii-u) has a dramatically smaller market share. The only way for Nintendo to successfully compete for multi platform games would be to cut the Wii-u life cycle short and put out a Wii-U2 sometime within the next 3-4 years (vrs the Xbox one/ps4 lasting the next 10 years).

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