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jonathanalis on 03 August 2013
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bananaking21 said:
Mr Khan said:
bananaking21 said:
it would be the stupidest thing ever if rockstar released the game on the WiiU

I'm afraid you're going to have to back that one up.


Rockstar never had a presence on nintendo consoles, why should they bother with the WiiU now? GTA fans are spread between the PS3, Xbox 360 and a bit for the PC. their other games like RDR, L.A noire, and max payne all skipped nintendo consoles. my point is, they do NOT have a fanbase on nintendo consoles. yes china town wars sold 1.2M but thats on a console that sold 150+ and everybody had it, the game had a 93 metacritic, so it isnt the games fault. other than that game GTA has never been on a nintendo console. then look at the CoD sales on the WiiU, a very low 190K. thats CoD and thats a franchise that HAD a fanbase on nintendo consoles before which sold between 1.4-1.8 million. then on the WiiU it performed 190K. If CoD sold that bad why wouldnt GTA? specially when it doesnt have a fanbase on the console. 

add to that is that Nintendo is a brand that is family friendly, whether nintendo likes it or not it is. a huge chunk of its sales comes from parents buying it for their kids, that audince simply isnt interested in games like GTA. and probably the most important factor is that porting a game with the scale of GTA wont be easy and cheap. this game is HUGE. the maps is extremely huge. the content is unbelievably high and rockstar have their standards. porting everything to the WiiU wont be easy, wont be cheap and wont be fast. it will take tons of resources and time to do it and all for what? a few hundered thousand? their fanbase is already on the PS360, why bother?  ohh and it doesnt help that the WiiU sales are beyond horrible at this point (i just remembered to add this right before pressing post)

so to sum it up

1- rockstar never had a presence on nintendo consoles

2- all their fans already have atleast one of the two consoles, except maybe the few PC fans

3- Even though CoD had its fan base and fans on the Wii the WiiU version of CoD only sold 190K

4- A lot of WiiU owners are kids who are interested in games like mario and mario kart, games that are generally targeted towards kids. kids who arent interested in games like GTA

5- lengthy and costly porting of the game that simply wont be worth it, specially considering how big GTA5 is

6- extremely bad WiiU sales.

so yes, mainly due to those reasons i think porting GTA5 to WiiU would be an extremely stupid idea that simply wont have any benifit towards rockstar what so ever


1-why not start now? there are games that naver had been in a console, and sudenly come to the console and make success. i cant see why GTA coudnt.

2- if had an wii U and a ps3, i would buy the wii U version if it offer what ps3 version couldnt (a good gamepad usage, off-tv play, etc), so that is not a good reason.

3-it was in the launch, near 2014 we will have the double of wii Us, it would sell much more after 1 year of console.

4- a lot of kids played GTA on ps2.

5- ubisoft, EA, warner, all of them said that is easy to port a ps360 game to wii U.

6- wii U will start to sell starting from august due new launches(what everybody believes).

Easy to port->cheap->even if sell poorly(lets say 300~500 thousands) they will profit.