'Crysis 3' not coming to Wii U due to lack of "business drive"

[mrstickball]

Cobretti2 said:

mrstickball said:

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?

 

Ok answer me this, if Halo 3 launched with the 360 would COD 2 have sold so well during launch?

1st party exclusives are the big driver why people pick a certain console. IF that offering happens to be there at launch against a third part game it is a no brainer what the majority will buy irrespective of what system it is.

 

You're using a very inappropriate comparison. You're using two games of the same genre. Of course one would be negatively effected, since both are shooters (a similar situation likely occurred with CoD4/Blops2).

Having said that, the Blops2/NSMBU comparison is significantly different, since they're in different genres. You should expect users to attach to different genres at different rates, thus why one should worry about sales for shooters on the WiiU, irregardless of what Nintendo has released (unless your game is a direct competitor to something like NSMBU).