| Mr Puggsly said: But sales declined faster on Nintendo platforms. Wii U is a massive failure among core audiences so naturally there is low expectation of that doing well on Wii U. If anybody is a Wii U fan with a remote interest in 3rd party games, you need to own multiple consoles and stop complaining about support. |
The problem here is not the Wii U, it is clearly Activision. THPS 2-4 were all released on many platforms, no fewer than 7 for any of them counting PC and Mac as separate.
Forget the Wii U. Where's the PC version? How about the Vita version? Those two at the very least should be braindead-easy ports considering the platforms already being supported. Activision put real work into the older games, tasking a separate developer with creating faithful and high-quality renditions of the THPS 2-4 for GameBoy Advance. A 3DS version surely wouldn't be as difficult as all that.
Activision has decided to release this game for only four platforms. They could easily -- very easily -- release it on seven or more platforms without breaking their backs from the effort. What they are demonstrating to me is that they have less confidence in this franchise now than they had when it was a brand-new IP back in the late 90s -- or perhaps they only lack confidence in this particular installment. Not a good sign for the quality of the game.
