I am going to make a BOLD prediction for call of duty's release

[JEMC]

Aielyn said:

JEMC said:
I'm sorry but the biggest selling point of CoD is its multiplayer. Do you really believe that people that have spent hours on the Xbox/PS3 multiplayer, that knows/recognizes a lot of nicks and have learned who to avoid and who to go with, are waiting for the WiiU version (from which we know almost nothing about its online) to be announced?

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you.

The biggest selling point of CoD is gameplay, in the form of multiplayer. If people feel that they'll get a better total gameplay experience out of the Wii U version, that version will sell better.

What I find hilarious is that you think that people wouldn't wait to learn about the Wii U version before putting money down on a version, and the reason is that we don't know enough about the Wii U version. As for "recognising nicks", I think you vastly overestimate the number of people who play it to that extent, and do so with significant knowledge of who is who. We're talking about a multiplayer that involves millions of people, and for which most of them play it purely for fun, without much care about who they're playing against. The core of players that play it to such a hardcore level (note: I don't mean "hardcore gamers" - that's a nonsense term) number maybe in the tens of thousands.

Maybe I've word it wrongly, but what I ment to say is, and you recognized it, that people play CoD because it's multliplayer yet we know almost nothing about WiiU's online, not the game but the system.

And since WiiU's online is still a mystery, the majority will pre-order the game for their existing console, console that their friends probably also have and that use to play online together.

Now, is it possible that some of those people change their pre-order if there is a WiiU version that is better than the PS360 one AND the system's online is good enough? Sure. But not many.