Loleta (guest) said:
And out of all consoles you reach for Wii U , really ?
wow , this is like a doom circle for true survival horror games , why do good survival horror games has to stick to the Wii U only !? aren't they want money , do they want to help the survival horror genre by doing this ?
this is bad ,.. really really bad decision , Fatal frame series should comeback to all consoles regardless if Nintendo co-own the IP , Tecmo needs to do something .

I think the answer you're looking for is in the interview. The team would be developing the game at a loss if they stuck with Sony. If it comes down to making your game for just Wii U despite low console sales or risking your company going under before you can even release the game, I think most developers are going to stick with the former.

Also, this isn't an issue of install base anyway. Survival horror is a niche market. Has been for some time. That's why you saw Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Dead Space all shift heavily toward third-person shooter action later in their lifespans.

Fatal Frame in particular probably wouldn't greatly benefit from being multi-platform. For example, look at the series's sales numbers here: http://nintendoeverything.com/image-japanese-fatal-frame-sales-comparison/

The latest game, a Wii U exclusive, has almost matched the worldwide sales of the first game and the Wii remake of the second game, despite only being released in Japan. Compare it to only Japan sales, and it's the third best-selling game in the series. It beats out both Wii games, despite the Wii having a userbase of about 100 million compared to the Wii U's 10.

All that aside, the WIi U is setting itself up as the dream console for niche gamers. Several games or developers have survived on Wii U where they otherwise wouldn't exist (Bayonetta, Devil's Third, Fatal Frame) and, incidentally enough, most of them are M-rated games. This myth that Nintendo's consoles aren't for serious gamers or are only for little kids needs to die already.

As for survival horror, that's a beast of another color. It's hard to find anywhere. Silent Hills is shaping up to be amazing, but there really isn't much survival horror anymore, outside of indie games. Alien: Isolation performed extremely well for the genre, but wasn't big enough to keep Sega from taking an overall loss and shifting focus to their mobile department. Survival horror is too niche a genre for most companies to bother with, so the more we get on any platform, the happier I am.

Edit: Those are debut sales for Fatal Frame, not lifetime, my bad.

( Edited 22.02.2015 17:56 by crackedthesky )