Ubisoft explains why it delayed Watch Dogs on Wii U

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superchunk said:

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It's not gonna sell like Zombi U. That game was pushed fairly heavily for the Wii U launch window and even bundled with the system for a while.

Take a good hard look at those Assassin's Creed IV sales and start counting down from there. 

I as mentioned... AC4 died accross the board. When from a 12m franchise to 7m. People largely disliked AC3 and sales of AC4 show that.

This is a new IP with a lot of hype... at least it had a lot. That will be revitalized by E3 when it is relaunched and Wii U has largely nothing else.

I think it will easily do 400k at a min and likely closer to 750k. This is assuming Wii U gets some boost from MK8 and other titles putting it well over 6m in total sales by then.

Hope springs eternal I guess. 

More like the small number of Wii U fans who were willing to buy this on Wii U will be splintered now at least by half into those who will buy the PS3/360/X1/or PS4 version simply because it's available first. It's not like there's a ton to play on the Wii U anyway to justify sitting around even longer and playing nothing while Ubi Soft decides to release a Wii U version. 

See: Need for Speed on Wii U.