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

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Aielyn said:

Scisca said:
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.

I love how people like you claim to know how people who buy a certain system think, even though you clearly haven't bought one, and would never buy one.

I have Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops, both for Wii, and I will be buying Call of Duty: Ghosts for Wii U soon. I would not have bought any of them for other systems, in part because I severely dislike "dual analog" and quite enjoy Wiimote controls for FPS gaming.

Isn't that funny - the idea that a person might actually get into FPS gaming because of the Wii? Oh, right - that completely contradicts your belief that Wii owners are either "teh casualz" or "360/PS3 owners that bought a Wii for Nintendo games only". And of course, the only people buying the Wii U are people who love Mario, right?

You want to know why they chose Wii U over Vita? For exactly the reasons you pretty much just spelt out - people who buy a Vita probably also own a home console. CoD gaming really suits home consoles - as such, releasing a port on the Vita would cannibalise their regular versions. The only reason Black Ops Declassified happened was because it wasn't a port, but a spinoff. In order to make a profit with a Vita version, they need to make up the costs that were spent on creating a whole new game. To make a profit with the Wii U with Ghosts, all they had to do was port a few things over into an existing engine, do some tweaking, and that's about it.

Chances are, Black Ops Declassified didn't make a profit, but both Black Ops 2 and Ghosts on Wii U did. Yes, even with only 70,000 copies sold (in part thanks to them spending nothing at all on advertising the Wii U version). And in the process, they're establishing a market on the Wii U, which will result in future ports performing better.

you missed his point. You are in the minority, sales data backs that up, every subsequent Wii COD release did worst than the last while the HD twins were actually selling more. The WIi U sales are horrible worst of the bunch by a large margin, so again, minority. So yes he is right releasing on Wii U is not growing, selling less than 1% is not growing the brand and no their is no wait for next year this time. Ghosts is tracking less than Blops2 despite being cheaper