wow talk about pure news manipulation... Gamespot (Eddie), those numbers are right, but the whole intent of this article (and its headline) is purely wrong, manipulative and sensationalistic.
In the end, the article should be labelled as "Study: ~4.6 percent of indie and small developers making Wii U games", since "46 percent of all attendees reported working in companies of 10 people or less, with 53 percent of respondents self-identifying as indie developers out of ~2500 attendees."... so that leaves 1 percent of the attendees that could (or not) be part of bigger/AAA companies/studios.
Also, you keep ignoring the reason why many (if not all) indie developers do not make the jump to the Nintendo platform; and is because Nintendo's business practice (they should change if they want to attract more people) asking those, who want to develop for a Nintendo console, to require/provide a commercial office. Some indie and small developers have come forth in the past stating that this is the real thing (currently) stopping them from developing for a Nintendo console.
Also, 4.6%,~115, (developers currently making a WiiU game) to 6.4%, ~160, (developers making/thinking future WiiU game) is an increase in developer support/interest in the console, so it is not that terrible as intended by the headline of the article.
Yeah it is easy to bring out those numbers and spin them around, and leave out of the article the true reasons, logical and rational explanations why those numbers exits.
@BlazingSpeed :s, and who was denying that? One have to be a blind to ignore the signs that all three companies lost a lot of money.
Microsoft did not make a penny on the Xbox (according to reports), and the Xbox360 started to become profitable to them (since the loses carry over from the Xbox) around the time the Kinect was introduce in the market... 2010, so what is that 9-10 years of losing money. Yet, you find ignorants around here that keep repeating that "they can afford to lose money". **facepalm**
About Sony, well they came out from back to back generation of pure success (you have to be a fool to deny that)... and gets what, their egos finally caught up with them; in the end, the PS3 (and right now Vita) ended up hurting them a lot... and I am pretty sure that the PS3 did not started to become profitable for them until 2010-2011.
My point was that a lot of people, ignorant gamers and bias media sites, like to sound the doom trumpet for Nintendo all the time... yet the competition has had a tough time, and people still reluctant to acknowledge it. How is that possible?... again, pure ignorance and hocus pocus from the media.
What most of those people usually fail to mention is that both Sony and Microsoft have enough money from their other divisions (specially Microsoft... see 2nd paragraph) to brute force (not necessarily a bad term) their product in the market. It happened with the PS1 and it happened with the Xbox and Xbox360.
I do get a lot of my info from Gamasutra and from other professional sites, that is why I am perplexes of sites like this (not all the time) that has purely become a tool to add fuel to the fire, and sensationalize the news.
@KimCheeWarriorX If you have time, this guy bring some good points about the WiiU (since you mention is a crap system)... it is an old video, but it is very interesting. ;)
@KimCheeWarriorX lol grown ups? nice one XD. you will have to do better than that.
Next time you will tell me that you work for Konami too? **facepalm**... exactly, because with comments like yours only enforces how ignorant you are when it comes to developing games.
As I said before, Konami was making the C:LOS version for the 3DS, yet sites like this only focus on C:LoS2, not coming to the WiiU. So I guess we should throw out of the window the fact that this game has been in development (and announce) for quite a while for the PS3, Xbox360 and PC.
Who knows if C:LoS2 comes much later for the WiiU. Not the first time it happens (not the last one either), yet when it comes to a Nintendo console it is a bad thing.... typical herd mentality.
Don't want to see you crying and sending death treats to Konami if this happens.
@Shenmue_Jehuty most ignorants do not even know that the Gamecube and N64 (labelled as failures), still were profitable for Nintendo.... Nintendo current has an amount of $14.13B cash in the bank... or something close to it.... Not bad for a company that their main income is video games... and yes love hotels (joke).
Great article... I am looking forward mainly to Bravely Default, DQ VII, DQ:RS III and Beyond the Labyrinth. The other titles are really interesting as well. Good thing they are localizing Project X Zone ;)... can't wait for that either
@GSJones1994 Exactly, this is just the type of news that adds fuel to the fire for the console war... and gives an excuse to loyalists to laugh, troll, hate the other console and its install base.
Moreover, it is funny that it is always a negative issue when a game does not come to a Nintendo console on its initial release date (or at all)... yet if the same thing happens to the other consoles, then it is all fine aka not news worthy.
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