Watch Dogs Wii U - Ubisoft reiterates that Watch Dogs is still coming to Wii U.

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Carl2291 said:

Mr Khan said:

Because nobody was talking about AC4 on Wii U (i really didn't see too many people talking about AC4 at all). Watch Dogs has had a fair amount of hype across the board, including on the U.

AC as a franchise has never had much of a following on VGC. That said, you should never judge how well a title will sell based on how many people are talking about it.

Zero999 said:

batman AO is yet to cross 1.4M on 360 and it's 13x bigger base and the wii u version is outselling Arkham city, meaning it's the only console where sales didn't decline. Assassin's creed is on it's way to cross 400k by the end of the year. call of retrocess  also declined everywhere.

we aren't seeing AK YET. And most importantly, those games made money, so they aren't bombs. Watch dogs already had more US pre orders on wii u than AC4 sold on it's first US week on wii u, months before release. it WAS set to do much better than Ac4.

I dont care how the Arkham games did on PS360 because coincidentally, they are also missing Arkham Knight.

Call of Duty Ghosts may have declined. I mean, its only sold 7.5 Million units on the PS3. Its only sold 8.25 Million units on the 360. Its only sold 1.55 Million units on Xbox One. Its only sold 1.91 Million units on PS4. Those one hundred and thirty thousand units(!) on Wii U must have made all the difference!

And in what dream world is Assassin's Creed 4 on its way to cross 400k? Hell, AC3 and AC4 combined you might have a point here, but neither game will break 400k lifetime on Wii U.

On top of all this... Do you have any proof that they made money? Do you have any proof for the Watch Dogs preorders? Show me the links.

Kind of old, but Ubisoft has been on the record as saying it costs less than 1.3 million to port games to the U.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-23-ubisoft-says-wii-u-ports-costing-under-USD1-3-million

Yes, this article dates to when the U had only the 360 and PS3 to compete with. But Watch Dogs, CoD, AC, and Batman all have 360 and PS3 releases.

At 150k, selling for an average price of lets say $40 when you account for bargain bin sales in the later half of sales lifetime that's $6 million. More than likely lifts most 3rd party ports to profit.

Regarding Watch Dogs on Wii U. 25k preorders at $60 = $1.5 million -- probably just enough get a long ways into porting the game and begin adding new Wii U specific features. The preorder number has been requested and provided in other weekly preorder reports on VGC.

Wii U version of Watch Dogs will come, and will be successful for Ubisoft. But there's no denying Watch Dogs on all other platforms is a far more material concern.