depends if GTA V will come to 360 or PS3, or will it be for next gen.
if next gen Wii u will probably not get it because its not much more powerful then the 360.

but porting the 360 version to the wii u could be possible.

Thats not what he said, what he said is people will buy Wii U JUST for GTA5 and i pointed out the flaw in that logic, in this day and age no one buys a console for just one game, especially if that game is available on something they might already have

I always thought that it was always timed exclusive. I thought that funded stuff was crap.

Actually, I never (EVER) said that people would be buying the Wii U to play GTA 5 ... In fact my argument is the complete opposite.

Much like there were millions of people who bought Mario Kart for the Wii but were unwilling to buy a Gamecube to play Mario Kart, there are millions of people who are willing to buy GTA but were unwilling to buy a HD console to play it. Many of these gamers may adopt the Wii U because they like Nintendo's approach to the gaming market and will buy GTA V if it is available, but they're not going to buy a PS3 or XBox 360 to play GTA V.

To put rough numbers to it, for every dollar they spend porting GTAV to the Wii U I would expect an additional sale to the series resulting in (at least) $10 additional in revenue; up until they spend about $5 Million porting it. If they do a fairly basic port of the game I would expect it to cost (around) $1 Million and they would (probably) see at least 1 million units sold on the Wii U, if they implement meaningful features that took full advantage of the Wii U's capabilities I would expect it to cost between $2.5 Million and $5 Million and they would see at least 5 Million units sold on the Wii U.

While the sales may not match the HD console versions of the same game, they easily will cover the porting costs, and it would be really bad business to ignore the Wii U.

Indeed it would be lose-lose.

Fair enough

I think your overestimating the NINTY fan and when i say fan im talking the zeolots who will ONLY buy NINTY products, there isnt that much of them out there as you think IMHO. ANd the WIi U will still just be out, could it sell a million?? possible 2 mil??  unlikely five mil?? Hell no. Keep in mind im not dont port, im sayign they should

more like a lose-stalemate. Ninty would lost out cause they want that core audiecne but RS isnt losing anything the game will do gangbusters on PS360 by itself, not even counting PC version. Sure they can make more money, but the wont go bankrupt if they ignore Wii U

Of course you're right Oni, what I meant was lost opportunity and obvious ROI for both businesses.

Depends if they want to bother with a new hardware.... But at least Wii U is not like the Cell proccessor. 

No, it's "lose-lose." Nintendo's console will do just as good as it was going to do with or without GTA (game's not really a killer app in and of itself anymore), but the loss of a game of its caliber sets a negative precedent for third party support. Meanwhile, sure Rockstar doesn't lose much by avoiding Wii U in the short run (comparatively. An easy $30 million is nothing to sneeze at), but they then will not be established as a name on the Wii U, and will find it harder to break into the market later

Just like the Wii's third party situation was lose-lose, it will be bad all around should Take Two choose not to force Rockstar to take the plunge.