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Grand Theft Auto V on Wii U?

YES PLEASE YES! 172 54.43%
 
It could be kinda cool, I guess.... 57 18.04%
 
I'll buy a Wii U JUST to play this game! 7 2.22%
 
Noooo it could be pretty bad... 10 3.16%
 
The game would suck on the Wii U! 70 22.15%
 
Total:316
oniyide on 15 December 2012

This makes more sense than Dark Souls2, good luck. I wont be signing as i dont sign petitions for games I have no intention of buying, makes me feel like a hypocrite



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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 December 2012

When Jack Thompson goes on a crusade to stop GTA V, the Nintendo Wii will not be included in the argument if it actually happens!



Cobretti2 on 15 December 2012

GTAV won't come as the devs said they have no plans of releasing it on next gen systems.

 

EDIT: great poll at least we kneo 46 people (so far) hate the Wii U enough to think a GTA game with regular controls shcme would suck lol.



 

 

F0X on 15 December 2012
happydolphin said:
F0X said:
happydolphin said:
F0X said:

Realistically, I think everyone should take a chill pill. I doubt we'll know for sure how third-party support will shake out until the end of 2013 at the soonest. Also, I think some people have extremely unrealistic expectations about the porting process. :P

Ok, but in your original post you mentioned petitions as not being effective. Above and beyond the obvious (that petitions are very wishful), what about asking for a game rather than buying it doesn't make sense (or does it, I'm not sure from your post). Also, some people don't have that kind of voting power (to vote with 60$). Companies have an interest in taking the gamble because an IP like GTA will do well on the U regardless. I mean, if it did well on the DS...


Actually I said that petitions are less effective than purchasing similar games (third-party ports). My reasoning is simple. Petitions are merely talk, in which the signees are not guarenteed to actually buy the game they supposedly want to see on WiiU. Contrast with high(er) sales numbers for third-party ports (those Darksiders II numbers make me cry a bit inside as they stand right now), which provides evidence that the market for those types of WiiU games is existant and willing to put their money where their mouth is. Whether or not it makes sense for certain companies to make certain games for Wii U depends on what the company deems to be sensible. What would be a superior means of convincing companies to release Wii U versions of their games, between petitions or sales data?

I realize that one is more effective that the other, that's a given, but the main issue in your original post is that you put them in competition with each other, when it's and and/or situation, once again.

On vgchartz, I've noticed this happen many times. Of course a purchase says more, but how does that remove the value of the petition? You contrasted them to eclipse the need for a petition, but for someone who doesn't like that game, and is not ready to pay for it, even though you might think his voice is bull, the reasons for him to express him wanting that game on the console has a place and a purpose, which I explained in my first reply to you.

We agree that a sale is more convincing, but it doesn't discredit the value of the petition, and a refusal to buy does not discredit the petition of said user, because he/she may not have the means nor the desire to buy the game, but may have reasons to want that game on the console he supports (for the reasons I mentioned above).


Not going to dispute that there is a place for petitions, but I only mean to compare their effectiveness to remind people that if they actually want a game to come to a console, it's not necessarily enough to simply say you want it to happen. Personally, I would be more interested in some sort of pledge to buy GTAV for WiiU if it ever is released, as opposed to a "please bring it to Wii U because it would be cool" petition. Extra points if there is an option to include the signees' Nintendo Network ID, to give it a little more legitimacy. A petition is a push, and in some circumstances might just work. However, to tackle the problem of improving third-party support on Nintendo home consoles, I will always reccomend a stronger option.



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F0X on 15 December 2012
Squilliam said:
happydolphin said:
Squilliam said:

Yep. The Xbox 360 and PS3 are excellent at vector maths but they absolutely suck at certain types of general purpose code. GTA IV is designed from the ground up to take advantage of these wierd processors so none of the advantages of the Wii U's architecture comes into play and a lot of the weaknesses are exposed.

In a lazy port, that is.

There are other kinds of ports, especially for franchises as big as GTA, like actual platform-tailored ports. Assuming the reasonable (a non-lazy port), your argument crumbles.


Lazy huh? I think I've heard that before somewhere else.


Supposedly the Wii U version Assassin's Creed III is on par with other versions, and if you're concerned about how sandbox games might perform on Wii U, that's the only real evidence we have right now.



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happydolphin on 15 December 2012
F0X said:

Not going to dispute that there is a place for petitions, but I only mean to compare their effectiveness to remind people that if they actually want a game to come to a console, it's not necessarily enough to simply say you want it to happen. Personally, I would be more interested in some sort of pledge to buy GTAV for WiiU if it ever is released, as opposed to a "please bring it to Wii U because it would be cool" petition. Extra points if there is an option to include the signees' Nintendo Network ID, to give it a little more legitimacy. A petition is a push, and in some circumstances might just work. However, to tackle the problem of improving third-party support on Nintendo home consoles, I will always reccomend a stronger option.

From that optic, I can agree. But the original vantage point (to discredit one due to the supremacy of the other) I couldn't. Glad you put it into perspective.



mushroomboy5 on 15 December 2012

It's one of the most mainstream franchises out there so it makes sense that it should come to wii u (personally I think it will be released on wii u anyway, but maybe 6 months after the other consoles).



Squilliam on 15 December 2012
F0X said:
Squilliam said:
happydolphin said:
Squilliam said:

Yep. The Xbox 360 and PS3 are excellent at vector maths but they absolutely suck at certain types of general purpose code. GTA IV is designed from the ground up to take advantage of these wierd processors so none of the advantages of the Wii U's architecture comes into play and a lot of the weaknesses are exposed.

In a lazy port, that is.

There are other kinds of ports, especially for franchises as big as GTA, like actual platform-tailored ports. Assuming the reasonable (a non-lazy port), your argument crumbles.


Lazy huh? I think I've heard that before somewhere else.


Supposedly the Wii U version Assassin's Creed III is on par with other versions, and if you're concerned about how sandbox games might perform on Wii U, that's the only real evidence we have right now.

It all depends on how they code the game.



Tease.

F0X on 15 December 2012
happydolphin said:
F0X said:

Not going to dispute that there is a place for petitions, but I only mean to compare their effectiveness to remind people that if they actually want a game to come to a console, it's not necessarily enough to simply say you want it to happen. Personally, I would be more interested in some sort of pledge to buy GTAV for WiiU if it ever is released, as opposed to a "please bring it to Wii U because it would be cool" petition. Extra points if there is an option to include the signees' Nintendo Network ID, to give it a little more legitimacy. A petition is a push, and in some circumstances might just work. However, to tackle the problem of improving third-party support on Nintendo home consoles, I will always reccomend a stronger option.

From that optic, I can agree. But the original vantage point (to discredit one due to the supremacy of the other) I couldn't. Glad you put it into perspective.


That original post was basically born from exasperation, since it seems to me that petitions these days are being treated as some sort of cure-all solution. Compounded with the current results for third-party games on Wii U, in which the only one currently finding sucess is ZombiU (which is a good game), while other, maybe better games are comparatively being passed up. I honestly thought more Nintendo fans would try out Darksiders II, given that the series has been labled as a "darker, more mature Zelda". Or Scribblenauts Unlimited, which has a history of success on Nintendo platforms. But I guess Mario takes first priority once more.



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happydolphin on 15 December 2012

^Well, to be fair, it is still launch. The thing's been out for roughly a week.