Don't you dare say that. We should not be expected to be a bunch of guinea-pigs, expected to buy crap in order to "earn" good third party support. Either give us good third party support or we aren't going to buy anything.

Don't ever say that again. Ever.

didnt say anything about it being better, dont try to put words in my mouth. Im just giving accurate info, take it how you want it. And FYI the average Castlevania on Ninty handheld sell about 300,000 copies, if you think LOS didnt sell well then the Castlevania on handhelds must have done horrible.

SotN is the best selling one, so i dont know what the hell Jumpin is on

You seem to forget that traditional 'core' gamers like yourself who would play a game like castlevania are a niche market. I used to play games like castlevania, but when I was about 7 years old on my NES. Now I couldn't give a toss about games like this anymore, I'm an enthusiast now. Nintendo will have plenty of muscle to produce great games that I will enjoy without needing strong support from games like castlevania. If the PS4 and Xbox 720 try to appeal to core gamers again like they did with the 360 and PS3 then they're going to struggle to beat the Wii U in sales, as the Wii U will appeal to a wider audience like the Wii did.

The Wii U controller is a 360 pad with a tablet in it. Theres no way its going to have the same appeal as the casuals as you think. Its going to sell half what the Wii did.

No I never said you said it was better... you merely implied it by suggesting sales were more important than personal preference and taste (and to be fair maybe they are to you)...all I was saying was that I liked those older style 2d castlevania games (some of which were on the ds, others on other systems) and wish they'd make em still on some console (don't really care which one FYI...I usually own em all anyway which is why I'll still buy los2 regardless).

Yet I'm still fairly confident LOS would have ranked a bigger disappointment financially for konami than any of those 'dud' ds games... The ps3 version alone didn't even crack 1 million and would have cost a hell of a lot more to produce than those old 2d games. Whether it outsold previous castlevania games or not it was still a failure (in terms of sales). Konami would have known the ds games where aimed at a niche market and weren't exactly big budget hd games, while Lord of Shadows was a definate attempt to make the series a viable mainstream franchise, which it didn't really do (maybe its popularity will grow with the sequel but I'll wager if the sequel sells as poorely as the first, we wont see another and konami will try another reboot with different company at some point).

OT I suspect the real reason LOS 2 is not coming to wii u is mainly cos at this stage it's too much of a financial risk given that the game may not even sell over a million on the more established consoles combined, more than anything to do with console bias.

Anyway, gotta go...all thsi castlvania talk has made me wanna replay Lord of Shadows.

All this talk of Castlevania inspired me to look up the games. They really haven't sold well :(

My favorite, Aria of Sorrow, is arguably the best GBA game and it didn't break 300,000.

Anyway, back on topic, if I was an executive at Konami I don't think I would bother making the game for Wii U. It's just a risky proposition. Although they could have some fun with connectivity between the 3DS game and the Wii U version...something like the relationship between Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime.

Castlevania broke even which is why it got a sequel. A very underrated hit to be exact. There are games that have sold worse like Sleeping Dogs, for instance which is horrible, because that game was a bitchslap to GTA IV and a wakeup call to how combat should be done in GTA style games. The Castlevania reboot deserves the Demon Souls/ Batman:AA treatment because it is quite a challenging hack n slash on the hardest settings and a great story, with awesome production value. Its no God of War, but I would say its truly a great mixture of God of War, Castlevania and Shadow of the Colossus. If you like all three of those games, you really cannot lose. This is where the word underrated is thrown around, because its rather true.

Well, despite the huge sales figures of the Wii it wasn't really a good place for singleplayer story-focused action-adventures...

I have read through the top 50 selling games of the Wii and these were the singleplayer story-oriented games (or at least no simulations, party or sports games):

Mario:
05) New Super Mario Bros Wii
09) Super Mario Galaxy
15) Super Mario Galaxy 2
32) Super Paper Mario
40) Super Mario Allstars

Zelda:
17) Twilight Princess
30) Skyward Sword

LEGO:
20) Lego Star Wars complete Saga
38) Lego Batman
49) Lego Indiana Jones
50) Lego Harry Potter

Rest:
19) Donkey Kong Country Returns
35) Disney Epic Mickey
39) Sonic and the Secret Rings
44) Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

So in the top 50 there is no game that shows that there is a dedicated fanbase of a game like Castlevania Lord of Shadow with a Dark athmosphere and storytelling, Horror elements, etc. The PS3 has God of War in the top 50 and games like Dante's Inferno sold almost 2 million copy among both consoles and Darksiders 1 million. Castlevania on the Wii sold 140.000 copies (but this was an other genre, to be fair).

Giving this facts a 2D Sequel to Symphony of the Night would have been worth a try on the Wii. But I personally can understand why Konami is not bringing Castlevania Lords of Shadow to the Wii U.

I'm really looking forward to playing it. I got it for Xmas this year for 360 so there's no excuse not to play it.

I'm a sucker for Castlevania games. SoTN, Rondo of Blood, Aria of Sorrow, I even like the N64 Castlevania!

I just hope the franchise stays alive and well. In the end I don't really care if Wii U gets it or not. I just want to make sure we as fans get it.