Batman Arkham Knight not coming to WiiU. Warner slowing down support?

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Seece said:

It's interesting that some people think power is the reason WiiU doesn't get games, and some think it's sales. (It's both more than likely).

I wonder if WiiU had the power, would it get the games? If it had the sales (hardware), would devs make the effort to make games?

The Wii suggests no on the latter, because the userbase is not interested in those kinds of games

The Wii situation was completely different. Hollywood gave the Wii a nonstandard rendering pipeline making ports next to impossible due to it using fixed functions instead of traditional programmable shaders. The Wii would have been quite capable of down-ports of PS3 and 360 games if Nintendo had decided to drop GameCube backwards compatibility. Treyarch's work on Modern Warfare proves this despite Infinity Ward saying it was 'impossible'.

I'm confident that the Wii U will get down-ports from the PS4 and One when the installed userbase is high enough to make it viable, particularly if the One continues to flop in Europe.