GTA 5 Release Date For Wii U, PS4 & Xbox One: What’s The Story?

[Mnementh]

Zero999 said:

Mnementh said:

goodgamesir said:

Wow, with your numbers one can wonder how the hell any company lost money this gen if 100k on a new HD platform is enough to turn a profit for one of the biggest game of the generation. 100K to cover full port into a different platform and architecture, for bug testing, printing, shipping, advertising really? This is an HD platform we are talking about. Nintendo was probably thinking like you about the price of HD gaming and they got cought by surprise by the amount of resources it needed and had to delay so many of their games.

So you want to tell me that Activision hates money and ports Ghosts to WiiU, if not even BLOPS turned a profit. They can't expect  much more sales for Ghosts, maybe 300K. But it works on new technology, that increases the effort needed to port it over to WiiU. So if BLOPS didn't profit, Ghosts will also not. You tell me Eric Hirshberg (CEO of Activision) greenlights this port, if they expect a loss on it? Same with Ubisoft, they port a new Assassins Creed if the old one didn't profit? The userbase of the WiiU did not grow that much, so at least it is risky and brings only a low profit, if the old one was sold at a loss. No sane company would do that. You tell me Activision and Ubisoft can't calculate or love Nintendo so much they are willing to make a loss? No.

I'd say it will easily cross the 500k mark.

You're too optimistic. It may cross the 500K mark sometimes in the future, or may not. But in any case not easily.

You're too optimistic in regards to GTA too. I'm pretty sure a GTA could sell enough on WiiU too pay for a port, but the profits may be low enough, so that Rockstar doesn't bother. They are low enough for EA to be sure they keep away from WiiU for the moment. So I don't think GTA V on WiiU has a high probability.