Would third party support really have saved the Wii U? If you

Yes, you blazing idiot.

3rd party is what is keeping the Vita ever so slightly afloat, so yes.

Look at its first year, it was literally riding on third parties to push the system especially Rayman. When that fell through it absolutely destroyed its momentum

What is the Wii U of video games?

it was doomed from the start
it needed 3rd parties but was too underpowered to deliver them properly
most people just want a box to play gta, cod and sports games
and if your box doesnt have those games or has inferior versions then you aint moving units
or your gimmick has to be good, which is why the wii sold well
the gimmick the wii u had was more of a constraint
you couldn't even take the tablet into another room without it losing the signal
the wii u was basically a prototype of the switch

>Bad documentation
>poor port qualities by anybody that isn't nintendo
>Poor sales
>Hardly a more powerful improvement for the year it came out.

No

>>383939896
the wii was different tho, its was much cheaper, compared to the other consoles and the motion waggle hype was there for casuals to want it. this was also right before things like smartphones and tablet were very popular so the casuals still bought into the wii

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>>383939896
Wii U had more multiplat then Wii had.

>1.24 GHz CPU
>2 GB DDR3 RAM
>32 GB storage
>competing against Xbone and PS4

it's no wonder 3rd parties fucked off so quickly

>no D&D style game with 4 players and a GM (the guy with the gamepad)
>could even make amiibo for characters to save your data to so you can rotate GMs or play off of someone else's system

Really wondering whether it was more the fault of Nintendo for not supporting third parties, or the fact that a lot of third party devs are uninspired as shit and couldn't even pitch obvious ideas to Ninty.

>>383943070
At the very least the mii amiibos set would work but you could easily make a smash/Nintendo DND with a really easy simple quest with tons of replayability and difficulties