As far as the previous console was concerned Activision was acutally a more potent developer/publisher then Electronic Arts. While they both had exactly the same number of titles that sold a million or more copies. If you are curious sixteen for each of them. Activision actually put out 125 titles to Electronic Arts 70. Activision also sold 65 million games. Where as Electronic Arts only sold 37 million.  Both having a average of sales per title of roughly half a million copies.

Fast forward to today. Activision has five titles to Electronic Arts two titles, and averaging out the sales. Activision is only averaging sixty six thousand copies per title to Electronic Arts twenty thousand per title. A far cry indeed from their respective sales on the Wii, but it actually brings up a pretty important point. That Activision isn't doing much better then Electronic Arts which seems to be calling it quits, and Electronic Arts is probably quitting, because they cannot make any kind of living on the hardware. So it seems possible, or even probable that Activision will follow the same coarse of action. Especially considering that while they may be averaging slightly higher. They actually probably lose more in the form of development costs in the situation.

So I have two questions for this community. How likely do you think it is that Activision will abandon the platform, and secondly if that happens what kind of a effect do you think it will have on the platform? I am profoundly interested in how you would feel it would effect the library, and how it would effect the obvious console sales moving forward.

How can anyone call it quits when the hardware just launched at its barely over 3m in userbase?

EA did quit because it never started. It has a personal beef over its origin service.

Activision isn't going anywhere.

Funny how you think Nintendo hurt EAs feelings not going for Origin. They're not people, they're a business. They'll go wherever is money, and currently there ain't no/little money to make with WiiU. Its not only EA thats bailing out, Ubisoft is aswel.

I think that Activison undoubtedly abandoning the hardware will open up a space in the market for an as of yet unknown independent developer who will release a cartoon style capture the flag type first person shooter that will become the next big thing, selling 8 million copies of their first game launching a market frenzy and following that with a string of record shattering new franchises that see the Wii U selling over 80 million consoles in the years 2014 and 2015 and in the process leaving all other competitors irrelevant. With the massive profits this new developer house which has swelled to over 50 000 employees over the last three years partner up with Nintendo to develop a dedicated phone device that connects to any usb enabled device to instantly turn that device into a high end gaming system and as a result, Nintendo profits increase by 200 000% and the price of cotton (which Nintendo has bought up large markets shares of leading up to 2016) will skyrocket as the world is running out of cash since Nintendo owns it all. By 2025 Nintendo owns every single entity in the world and everyone have becomes slaves of Nintendo.

Comparing the whole wii userbase to the wii u's isn't something that should be used. Also, EA have a bad relationship with nintendo, activision however does not. Skylanders will also stay on the wii u, skylanders basicly lives and dies on nintendo platforms. Cod will also come to the wii u.

activision hasn't really started either.  it's not so likely a "calling it quits" as much as "failure to commit".  ubisoft was the only one that really came out strong for wiiU and therefore the only one that can (as possibly have judging by rayman) called it quits.

I think they'll be hurting no matter what if the dev costs go up.

Anybody who has ever spent any amount of time in a business will know that egos and personal grievances play a huge role in how things turn out. Businesses are more rational than the average individual, of course, but less rational than people give them credit for.

Come on, dude, are you kidding?  The rumors were posted on Reddit.  Reddit, for god's sake!  If we can't trust stuff posted on Reddit as fact then what can we trust?  Also, the rumor itself, with EA wanting exclusive control of Miiverse and the Nintendo Network, is too insane not to be solid truth.  I mean, if someone said that North Korea was working on chemical weapons, you'd be all like "... nah" but if they said they were working on the Deathstar, you'd be like "OMG that HAS to be true"!!1!.

but they didnt call it quits, people are acting (not you, but people in general) like ubisoft cancelled the game on WiiU, when they just delayed it for two possible main reasons A)- to launch alongside other versions of the game, resulting in spending less marketing on both releases and B) to wait untill the WiiU has a slightly larger install base. its just a bussiness decision. they didnt "call it quits"