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Yakuzaice on 10 April 2015
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JazzB1987 said:

COD history on Nintendo consoles.

COD sold okay on Gamecube.
COD sold very good on Wii (almost as good on Wii as on 360 even tho the 360 was our 1 year earlier)
COD MW1 was 1 year late on Wii and it was the most important COD because it made it famous.(the whole COD boom skipped Nintendo platforms because of that)
Since then like half or a third or so skip Nintendo platforms.

Why the hell would any person that likes COD keep playing it on Nintendo platforms if the next installment is going to skip the system anyway? They just moved on or stopped bothering alltogether.

Activision made COD going from "popular on Nintendo" to "not worth it on Nintendo"

Their next game will then again be used as "noone buys our games so the next one will skip the system again". excuse.

Assuming the VGC numbers are accurate, I wouldn't really call the Gamecube sales "okay".  For both of the PS2/XB/GC games it was the worst selling by a pretty huge margin.

While the current numbers for CoD3 are relatively close between the 360 and Wii (though these long term sales data without external updates are often way off), at the time they would have made the decision for CoD4 platforms the 360 would have had a wide sales lead.  Also if you want to eliminate the one year advantage, CoD 2 sold much better at the 360's launch period than CoD3 did for the Wii.  That is even considering that VGC is missing European sales data for CoD2 at the time.

I do agree with your overall point that missing CoD4 caused the Wii to miss the overall CoD popularity boat.  Although the degree to them skipping Nintendo platforms is kind of overstated.  Before Advanced Warfare, the only year a Nintendo platform didn't get a Cod release (not counting the DS) was 2007.  That game was then released on Wii in 2009, and the Wii missed MW2 completely.  So for 10 years from 2004 to 2013 there were only 2 years without a primary CoD release, and one of those years had the port of the game it had previously missed.  So only one year without any CoD game, and only one game that skipped Nintendo platforms completely.  Now of course those were probably the two most important years when it came to establishing the sales juggernaut of CoD.  What might have changed if they had been multiplat with the Wii is anyone's guess.

Now if BO3 came out on Wii U and then CoD 2016 skips it there will be a more clear trend of skipping Nintendo platforms.  Though release consistency on Nintendo platforms didn't seem to do much for sales.  The two year late port of CoD4 sold more than the on time Black Ops which sold more than MW3 which sold more than BO2 which sold more than Ghosts.