I think your underestimating how strong nintendo's influence can be with this. Microsoft was desperate to push ea, activision, capcom, square enix, konami etc onto 360 and successfully pulled it off.

The thing nintendo has going for it that microsoft didn't at the time is they are a safe bet to do well considering their long success with systems. This will be on wii u. Even if it isn't confirmed in the magazine I still think it will end up on it. Nintendo are not stupid. They have a year head start and know they need this game.

There is no way a direct port of GTA V on Wii U does not flop badly, even if released on the same day as on other platforms. The only chance for GTA V on Wii U to have even moderate success is to release an upgraded version, kind of like the Ninja Gaiden 3, or even Batman: AC. They need to put to good use the Wii Us advantages over the competition and give this version better graphics and some Chinatown Wars-like touch minigames, maybe add some "scanning with the gamepad" (of a safe for example?) elements. Not just put the map on the Gamepad... This could possibly entice people to choose this version, instead of a PS360 version, that offers better online experience due to all your friends already having the console. Obviously though we need to know about this version and all the upgrades long before the release of PS360 versions.


PS. Poland turns into a prime country when it comes to electronics in the West. They got RE6 a month ahead of the rest of the World, got Android Jelly Bean first as well, now they have these GTA V posters. Wonder why.

PPS. Hello forums!

Nintendo affinity on here seems to assume a lot. That Nintendo will have the success of last gen rather than the success of the previous two gens. And that there is a substantial amount of Nintendo console  only game players that are increadibly eager to pick up this franchise only when it goes to Nintendo. Shifting sales from console A and B to console C does not help Rockstar at all. It only helps them if it creates new consumers. My assumption is that R* does not think porting it to Nintendo will create new consumers, rather it will only shift which system the game is bought on. PC, 360 and PS3 make up all of the HD market right now and until this new HD Ninty console gains a big market share porting it to Nintendo does not make huge sense. Now, as i mentioned I do see it as a possible late port, but I see no reason for this to happen unless Ninty actually makes the Wii U a real success. That is still not proven.

Has anyone even thought of GTAV releasing for nextbox/ps4? It could very well be ported to WiiU alongside them. Don't see why Rockstar wouldn't take advantage of this, since GTAV could be releasing a couple of months before them.

Cant wait the game is going to be phenominal.

As to the Wii U question, I dont see GTA V launching on it. As others have said the games been in development for 4-5 years. They arent going to delay the game just to port it to Wii U.

I wont be surprised if they do later on however just not at launch

You're perfectly citing the plan for how anti-Nintendo elements intend to crush the console.

1) Withhold games until the console can prove it can handle them

2) Nobody releases such games, no proof ever appears

3) There's your justification for never releasing games on the console.

The big anti-Nintendo publishers (Take Two, EA, and Bethesda) employed this strategy perfectly against Wii, and some people will take this to be a valid business strategy when its lack of real business sense is more than apparent.

What a ridiculous thought. The thousands of people that make up Rockstar North and Taketwo, hundreds of which grew up with Nintendo systems and still buy them today, are all "ignorant haters" on Nintendo.

Here's just one other scenario: Maybe Rockstar want to spend their time focusing on the 2 versions they're making now, which would make sense since they spend a LOT of time polishing their games. Maybe making the best game possible on these 2 plaforms is of higher priority then porting to the Wii U and PC, and they don't want to put their game in the hands of another studio. Knowing Rockstar, and the kind of money they make T2 (which translates into power), this seems like a reasonable possibility, and a lot more reasonable than the irrational hatred you're suggesting. 

That is why this is important for nintendo though. Sure they argue that they have a fanbase (me included) that dedicate themselves to their systems and would love to play third party games. But the more devious motive here which I actually think nintendo is planning is with the multiplatform users. The people who own more then one console. The ones who would shift from current consoles.

See by convincing them they have a large part of the core market and microsoft and sony's job of convincing these people to jump on board their systems becomes a lot harder. If you bought playstation for gta and think nintendo has the best exclusives, why bother to buy ps4? What is that game that will wow you enough when nintendo have most of the big names in their arsenal?

Thats what I believe they are aiming to do. Convert the ones who will buy. Not persuade the people who have no intention of buying it. Convert the multiplat users and stop them from jumping ship to the others.

As for it being successful, apart from virtual boy nintendo don't have a failure on their record apart from accessories. Its a safe bet this will be no different. It doesn't need to reach wii sales to be successful.

the irony isn't lost on me that i constantly see nintendo fans saying stuff like mature games are for kids, they don't need mature games etc...
there aren't many games franchises that i know of that are more mature than gta

ot i really want some new info on this soon and i really hope they haven't stuck to the gta 4 route and dumbed down the gameplay

What games were to sell huge on the Wii? You make the same comments as every other Ninty hater. What was suppose to sell gangbusters on the Wii? It never got any major 3rd party support to begin with. We could say Monster Hunter which did better than its PS2 counterpart but is that a fair comparison? No just like comparing Conduit's sales to CoD on 360 is unfair. I like how comparing CoD on Wii to CoD on 360 is fair, even though CoD got popular on 360 and PS3 when the Wii didn't get it. But its not fair to compare PS2 MH to Wii MH because MH got popular on PSP. The point is the "major" 3rd party support the Wii got wasn't major at all. Just labeled major because its all Ninty got to begin with. This is why we should only compare major Wii games to major 360 games. Ofcourse thats not fair because Ninty isn't a fair comparison lol.

P.S. Its fanboys that hyped Bayonetta so nice try. The meltdowns is where the hype came from.