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Guitarguy on 06 March 2015
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Materia-Blade said:
FentonCrackshell said:
Guitarguy said:
Doesn't surprise me. What non-Nintendo developed(published) game has been relatively successful on the Wii U? Even highly acclaimed games like Bayonetta 2 have not been super smash hits. It might just not be worth the effort on the developers side.

Finally someone who gets it. Even perennial million sellers like FIFA and Madden don't sell on Nintendo consoles. Putting those games on WiiU would be a waste of time and money.

Can't believe you're using two games sent to die by EA as a comparison.


He is not unequivocally wrong though.

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/47/wii-u/

The highest selling non-Nintendo published/developed game on the Wii U is Ubisoft's ZombieU at circa 830,000 units sold worldwide....  This was considered a failure by Ubisoft. In fact, it was stated that it 'was not even close to making a profit'.

http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/07/08/zombiu-wasnt-profitable-no-sequel-planned

It only gets worse from there. Bayonetta II has sold a respectable amount but nothing in correlation to the amazing acclaim(ie 10/10s on major gaming publications). I would wager Bayonetta II cost alot more to produce than ZombiU... I would say Bayonetta II has yet to make a profit either...


Black OPs II, Ghosts, Tekken Tag 2, Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Injustice, Batman Arkham City/Origins, Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Splinter Cell Blacklist are all AAA games and all received good to excellent reviews but none of them have sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide.. What chance does a forgotten 'fad' franchise that has been dormant for many years have??