Call of Duty: Ghosts Wii U accounts for less than 1% of game’s total sales

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Wanderlei said:

LOL listen to this guy. "please say things I want you too, to fit my argument".

They can only support old consoles for so long before software sales dry up. Reality is they are going from a combined userbase of 160 million to less than 10 million combined going forward. Not growing their brand on every platform is financial malpractice, they need every sales they can get, end of story.

 

The thing you don't understand is that releasing a Wii U port isn't growing the brand. Wii U isn't really competing with PS4One, it's a companion console at best, just like the original Wii. This means that Wii U owners know they need a PS4One or a PC to play games, cause Wii U is too underpowered to deliver a full next-gen experience. What does this mean? It means that Wii U sales aren't added sales! In most cases, they are just canibalising sales from other platforms, since many Wii U owners would get a CoD on a different platform, had it not been on Wii U. The number of fanboys that will ignore the franchise just because it's not coming to Wii U is negligible, as they would never make up for the costs of the port. That's why if I was an executive at Activision, Wii U would only get a CoD next year if the console explodes this year. And it surely wouldn't get a port instead of Vita. Vita can add sales, since people want a portable CoD and see it as something a bit different and that audience actually wants a CoD. It really beats me why Acti chose Wii U over Vita this year.