Feature: Kickstarter's Wii U and 3DS Campaigns - 2nd June

Omori is a game that was made for me, I'd love to play it on 3DS.

Damn, Moira looked cool...

But this Shiness looks like a game after my own heart. Good for them for getting funded.

I'm really loving Shiness. The art style and music are fantastic. Though that Wii U goal is looking pretty far off, hmmm.

Death of Kickstarter games if you go off this page. Or maybe Nintendo fans are sicking of funding games that never get completed? Either way, not a successful game in the lot.

moira seems a bit like Kirby AND megaman with it's ability system.

@XCWarrior Well, since we're still waiting for stuff like Shovel Knight I guess that isn't too far off the mark.

By the looks of it, we'll probably be seeing quite a lot of unfunded projects in the next Kickstarter feature/news(recap?).

The problem, for me at least, is that Wii U is usually a stretch goal. I don't game on PC and my only two platforms at the moment are Wii U and 360. So I can't fund the game without the guarantee that Wii U is definitely in the cards.

That's a lot of Wii U titles...

We're falling into a bit of a lull with Kickstarter campaigns so games that would normally need a big push to get funded are just not getting it done right now.

That said Adventures of Pip is definitely promising and should consider relaunching the campaign because I think there is demand for it.

It's obvious that none of these goals will be met, but in the case of Luna's Tale I know that if they hit a certain backer level, just a few hundred more, which would still leave them well short, they'll be able to secure additional outside funding, probably investors basing sales predictions on backer count. Thus it will cost you nothing to pledge, as they will fail, but not pledging because you assume, however reasonably, that it is pointless will cost them funds, making it not pointless. Indeed I wonder if they wouldn't have hit that level already if people didn't stay away from campaigns appearing to fail. So at the least just check it out; you ma6 help give them someone else's money.

Wow none of these are making it to the wiiu that's just sad

Kickstarter isn't going to churn out 3 new Wii U titles a week, much less actually end up being good games. Kickstarter is good for a few gems here and there, but I wouldn't look to it for steady quality support or anything.

Shovel Knight, Mighty No 9, Shantae Half Genie Hero, Hyper Light Drifter, Earthlock Festival of Magic, maybe even Red Goddess...these are keepers. But they don't come around every day.

I'm not even upset these games in the list didn't get funded. None of them look even remotely good, tbh.

Eh, this shows a lot of games not coming to Wii U, but there are tons of Indie kickstarters on the system coming.

There is a quite depressing pattern there though...

All the projects here that have the Wii U at the core goal (Moira, Luna's Tale, Pip's Adventure) are missing the goal by quite a far margin.

On the other hand, most of the Kickstarters that have the Wii U or 3DS as a stretchgoal (Shiness, The Way, Omori) are actually reaching the goal, and even getting some stretch goals...Omori by itself have more money than what every Core goal Wii U Kickstarter is asking. Shiness and Pip'sAdventure cases are also interesting, both games have virtually identical goals (100,000 and 90,000 respectively) but the one with the Wii U included in the core goal is missing a lot to reach the goal in the final hours, while the one that has the Wii U as a stretch goal surpassed the goal already.

So, the whole "If the Wii U was in the core goal, we would pledge" angle seems unsubstantial in the end. In fact, results like this might actually give indie developers the idea that ignoring the Wii U from the core goal gets you more pledges and more success.

Shiness looks pretty awesome. Too bad those games are always in japanese or english and I don't think there will be a german version of it.

Edit: Nvm, saw that there will be german subtitles
I need more money to pledge it

I am noticing an irritating trend with Kickstarter lately where it seems that more and more games are using potential Wii U support as a carrot at the end of a stick to get extra money. It used to be a reasonable request when the stretch was merely $5,000 to $15,000 to cover Nintendo's relatively low entry cost to the eShop (Licensing/Dev kit cost) but now it seems like some developers are taking advantage of the Nintendo fanbase by making their Wii U stretch goals a bit outrageous for simple porting.

Shiness is set at $70,000 past initial goal for Wii U (while XBOne & PS4 are only $40,000 more) and the $70,000 is even more ridiculous when you consider Ynnis Interactive is already a Wii U developer and has released a game for the console already!

The Way put their Wii U goal at $85,000 past initial funding and I am struggling to see why the massive hike is needed. While I understand the extra funds needed for porting, it seems like a rather large gap.

At least something like Hover: Revolt of Gamer makes sense since they are actually making Wii U specific/exclusive content which justifies the additional budget. In the end, these indie developers need to think about how they treat the growing Wii U community considering these types of actions at dangerously similar to how third party's treat Nintendo fans and we've all seen how their sales have been on Nintendo platforms.

so out of every project in past kickstarter project nintendolife features, how many have actually been sufficiently funded for? would love to see OMORI come to 3ds.

Just a heads up - OMORI managed to get enough funding for the 3DS goal so look forward to that in 2015!

No 3DS support, no support. Since most of them seem to only care about the Wii U (and not much, given how much they're trying to milk out of them compared to owners of other consoles), I can imagine how little they care about the 3DS.