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mrstickball on 07 January 2013
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Cobretti2 said:
mrstickball said:
Cobretti2 said:
mrstickball said:
Given Black Ops 2 sales, it probably couldn't be justified from a revenue perspective.


So many people have said this in countless threads.

Rather then make a generic statement how about you say what your expectations are for a console that just launched with a user base of what about 1.5million (Japan excluded as they don't buy COD anyway)?

Factor in that it is also a late port and most would already own the game on PS3/360. So to me 160K sold to 1.5million WiiU owners is a approx 10% tie ratio.

Now tell me this when the PS4 and nextbox launches at the same time the next COD is due out, shoudl Activision not support the system as there is "not enough users" from a revenue perspective.

Call of Duty 2 sold almost twice as many units first week on the X360 as Black Ops 2 has in ~2 months on the WiiU. Add in the fact that DLC will likely arrive to a very lukewarm reception on the platform (for lack of significant HDD space), and its not a very rosy picture.

You can make all of the excuses you like for the WiiU, but when your top selling 3rd party game has sold 350,000 units in 2 months, with those following at 160k among three titles, you aren't making a very good case for publishers to latch on to your platform with core titles. Especially when the console is (allegedly) not meeting sales expectations.

 

Again ignore my comments about it being a late port.

Now lets look at the 360 launch games

 

 

Xbox 360

U.S. launch: November 22, 2005

It is easy to see why COD sold so well considering what the other titles were.
Now WiiU has a Nintendo game (mario at that). So does it not make sense that people would buy this first (after all it is a Nintendo console) then COD later (assuming they don't already own it on PS3/360)?

 


Using the "They will buy Mario first!" logic, then you're simply proving why publishers shouldn't want to release their games on the WiiU. If they're competing for scraps against a game that attaches to ~50% of all consoles, why bother?



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.