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curl-6 on 15 December 2013
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oniyide said:
curl-6 said:

Thing is, on Wii, not only was there a much bigger install base for COD to sell to, but the console's hardware excused missing features. Nintendo gamers were sure that once they had a HD-capable console, they would finally get fair treatment and a high quality port.

But that didn't happen. Both Black Ops II and Ghosts on Wii U lacked DLC, (despite Treyarch promising it for the former) were not as optimized as they should have been, launched with a plethora of bugs, and in the case of BO2, had support cut a few months after launch.

I was active on the Wii U section of the official forums, and many, many people there either said that they weren't getting Ghosts because they were pissed off about how they were treated with Black Ops II, or that they would wait and see how others reported the port to be before buying.
Needless to say, when day 1 buyers such as myself reported texture bugs, freezing bugs, and performance dips,* many of them said "fuck it, not buying."

There was a potential market for COD on Wii U, but players were simply not satisfied with what they got.

*These issues have since been patched, but the damage was done as far as tainting the port's image.


DLC is NOT a feature, I serioulsly doubt that much people would have bought it in any case. IMHO its just an excuse for poor sales. So all of a sudden DLC is important? Coming from some of the same people who swore it was a ripoff anyway? Please

As for the other issues, welcome to COD. Its always been like that. Even the 360 version is no exempt but the PS3 versions were never hot but people STILL bought those, in droves, so either A PS gamers dont care about the bugs or B PS owners are just more prone to play COD than Wii u owners are.

I do consider DLC a ripoff in most cases, but I'm not speaking of myself, (I bought the game day 1) I'm talking of the fanbase. Wii U owners on the official forums were pretty much "DLC or no buy, we want equal treatment or we're not supporting them".

And Xbox/PS gamers are definitely more accepting of bugs than Nintendo gamers; they've been conditioned to accept the "release is broken, patch it later" method over the previous generation.