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Flanneryaug said:
SxyxS said:
Even on Vita COD sold far more units than on Wii U,and the Vita version is crap and great games like Batman haven't sold more than 100000 units.

No Wonder 3rd parties aren't developing games for Nintendo as their games are ignored by Nintendo gamers.
The only thing they don't ignore is when games like rayman are delayed,though they wouldn't have bought them .

Would be interessting to find out wether 3rd parties are selling more games on Vita than on 3ds.

The difference between the Wii U and Vita COD is that the Vita version is different from the console version. So COD fanboys, and Vita owners desperate for a game bought Black Ops: Declassified, even though its terrible.

You mean there are no WiiU-COD Fanboys and no Wii U owners desperate for a game?even not now-i don't think so.

There was no desperation at that time when COD was released-there was enough game support at that time AND I'm pretty sure a vita-version of the far superior BO2 would have sold 3x more units than declassified did.

BTW-the NSMB Wii U version is not far away from a port but sold more than a milliontherefor I don't think it has so much to do wether it was released for ps360 or not,as BO2 was almost simoultanously released for Wii U and good Wii U ratings bett((er sales could have been expected(I"m pretty sure activision would never have released this games expecting such low sales)

Comparing NSMB Wii u/Nintendoland sales with Monster Hunter Wii u(barely 200k) there is also a pretty huge gap considering how strong MH is in japan.

I think the lack of 3rd party support is more than just a"ea hates nintendo" conspiracy.

IMO most of Wii U owners right know are not soccer moms but qmultiplatform gamers(not nintendo only fanboys) and those guys usually buy the versions for the newest system because they wanna play with the new toy.Why don 't they play multipfg with the new toy(wii u)though the Wii u versions are superior?

Imo=achievements/trophys.people like some rewards for playing a game,since they got used to that sort of candy.They don't get it from the Wii U,they play the ps360 version.btw-with trophys/achievements people play more and longer,they won't cry so fast for new games.

they should put some rewards like medals,jewels or even dogpoo in different colors,to attract people.I'd really like to have a dogpootrophy for reaching all stars in a Mario 3d game as this is real hard.



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VGKing said:
wfz said:
I thought BO2 was getting a lot of shit right before/during the Wii U release because it was inferior. There were multiple comparison videos and screens showing this. Now all of a sudden it's not a gimped port?

Anyways, if I was Activision I would also be worried that I can't make games that appeal to the owners of the console.

That's exactly the problem. It is very hard for any game that is not Mario-related to sell on a Nintendo consoles. There are obvious reasons for that.

That must be why Zelda, Wii ____, Just Dance, Skylanders, Monster Hunter, Sonic, Goldeneye, and pre-MW3 COD all failed to sell on Wii... :p



I'd complain about the whole "unnamed employee" thing if this wasn't all basically common sense.

Not like I expect Activision to be pleased with their sales on Wii U. Of course they're dissatisfied, of course they're talking about it. The only thing that strikes me as odd is that they'll continue supporting Wii U because they "don't want to damage their relationship with Nintendo" -- if their games aren't selling well enough on Nintendo platforms, why are they concerned about their relationship with the company? Why not just say... f*ck 'em?

Maybe because Skylanders still sells best on Wii. But the Wii is finished. This year the best-selling version of Skylanders will probably be on 360.



VGKing said:
wfz said:
I thought BO2 was getting a lot of shit right before/during the Wii U release because it was inferior. There were multiple comparison videos and screens showing this. Now all of a sudden it's not a gimped port?

Anyways, if I was Activision I would also be worried that I can't make games that appeal to the owners of the console.

That's exactly the problem. It is very hard for any game that is not Mario-related to sell on a Nintendo consoles. There are obvious reasons for that.


Enlighten us.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.

Nintendo fans are not the problem, i mean it's normal to buy Nintendo games instead...

the thing is to bring other gamers to Nintendo's system, except fans, which is not the case with WiiU, especially since Nintendo choose the Wii path once more, and is not developing any FPS at all

Nintendo could expand Metroid beyond the story mode into a huge online game with character customizations and stuff, but they just won't do it.... if this was done is such a way it could compare to Halo or CoD then 3rd parties could have smth on WiiU, and the problem is not the 3rd parties really, it's the hard core games, cause Just Dance and Skylanders don't have the same problem i guess



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

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VGKing said:
wfz said:
I thought BO2 was getting a lot of shit right before/during the Wii U release because it was inferior. There were multiple comparison videos and screens showing this. Now all of a sudden it's not a gimped port?

Anyways, if I was Activision I would also be worried that I can't make games that appeal to the owners of the console.

That's exactly the problem. It is very hard for any game that is not Mario-related to sell on a Nintendo consoles. There are obvious reasons for that.


Solution:Mario-COD,Mario AC,Mario-Batman(robin already looks like a squirrel,batman wearing his suit should make him fly like supermanmario),together with mario tennis,mario golf,mario cart,mario 2d,mario 3d,mario 2.5d(paper mario),mario fight(ssbm) and mario ghost(aka luigis mansion) should push Wii U sales



pezus said:

3rd party games just don't sell on Nintendo home consoles. This is almost an established fact.

Just Dance, Skylanders, Disney Epic Mickey, pre-MW3 Wii COD, Goldeneye 007, Sonic Secret Rings/Colours, Zumba Fitness, Monster Hunter Tri...



You know... WiiU is pretty cool cat.
Playing Activision and Call of Duty for a fool like that...is alright in my books.



This problem can be solved with a simple patch. Throw out the generic solder skins and replace them with Nintendo mascots. Mario tea bagging Peach.. Priceless.



Nintendo fans are hypocrites and generally terrible people.