Developer Survey Reveals Reluctance to Work on Wii U, Praise for XBox 720

[News Portal]

A survey conducted anonymously by IGN of major video game developers found that a huge majority of them not only claimed that Microsoft's next console is the easiest to work with, but that it would remains as sales leader for the next five years. Additionally, 63% of respondents claimed the Wii U to be the most challenging to develop for, with one respondent even claiming that they "won't be working on the Wii U due to complexities". Interesting stuff.

Source: IGN

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[Simrod]

I had a feeling the wii u would be a bit of a flop

[exe3]

Yeah man, I mean it's not like the PS3 has received similar complaints yet has gone on to not be a flop.

[InAUGral]

It may be to do with the fact its hardware is so far behind everything else (at least the rumoured hardware).

[exe3]

I think it's probably more a case that's it's just simply different like the Cell architecture is, that and possibly the TV on the controller is hard to program for (hard to synch the proper info etc).

[Rye64]

Oh look its another one of IGN's **** articles. nothing to see here folks...

Nintendos weakness with the wiiu will be their exact weakness they have had for the past 10 years; third party support

[random714]

And the PC is sitting pretty with absolutely no change required.

[GroggDogg]

And the PC is sitting pretty with absolutely no change required.

idk about u, but ill need a gpu update sometime b4 next gen hits my 480gtx cant run crysis 2 directx 11 maxed or max payne 3 maxed, plays them ok on average settings. the rest of my pc is good, 16 gig ddr3 1066 ghz? n i7 960 overclocked to 4.8

the only reason i still play pc over consoles is directly because of the controllers, i refuse to give up m+kb

[diamondd]

And the PC is sitting pretty with absolutely no change required.

idk about u, but ill need a gpu update sometime b4 next gen hits my 480gtx cant run crysis 2 directx 11 maxed or max payne 3 maxed, plays them ok on average settings. the rest of my pc is good, 16 gig ddr3 1066 ghz? n i7 960 overclocked to 4.8

the only reason i still play pc over consoles is directly because of the controllers, i refuse to give up m+kb

relax, I'm still running a q6600+8800GTS(512) combo

[jellygoose]

I had a feeling the wii u would be a bit of a flop

lol yep we should all read deeply into these meaningful stats...

[InAUGral]

And the PC is sitting pretty with absolutely no change required.

idk about u, but ill need a gpu update sometime b4 next gen hits my 480gtx cant run crysis 2 directx 11 maxed or max payne 3 maxed, plays them ok on average settings. the rest of my pc is good, 16 gig ddr3 1066 ghz? n i7 960 overclocked to 4.8

the only reason i still play pc over consoles is directly because of the controllers, i refuse to give up m+kb

relax, I'm still running a q6600+8800GTS(512) combo

And to think Im considering getting a new GPU later this year when Arma 3 comes out and I have 2x6870s in Crossfire.

[diamondd]

And to think Im considering getting a new GPU later this year when Arma 3 comes out and I have 2x6870s in Crossfire.

don't get me wrong, I would if I could

I do feel like my rig has held up admirably though, I still haven't reached the point where I literally can't play something I want to. In fact to this day Crysis is probably the game that has taxed my machine the most lol.

[InAUGral]

And to think Im considering getting a new GPU later this year when Arma 3 comes out and I have 2x6870s in Crossfire.

don't get me wrong, I would if I could

I do feel like my rig has held up admirably though, I still haven't reached the point where I literally can't play something I want to. In fact to this day Crysis is probably the game that has taxed my machine the most lol.

I look forward to hopefully having less driver related issues more than anything. Also for some reason Crysis lags for me in big battles where my friend with an nvidia 9800GTX does not. I believe its either poorly done drivers or poorly optimized for dual card setups (as someone I know with SLi has poor performance with 2xGTX480s).