It will probably come to WiiU for $60 sometime next year, around the same time PS360 gets the Crysis Trilogy for $40.

Heh, wouldn't be suprised at this point.

Yeah, too bad that CoD is roughly a 10x as big franchise as Crysis and it still only managed to sell 170k on the WiiU thus far.

Do you even know what a porting budget costs. I mean Im certain that if we take the standard 10% + for a port, and even if Crysis 3 only cost 20 million, we are still looking at 2 million just for the porting, and at least half million more to even get them on store shelves, unadvertised, out there to die. That means, that with the fast pricedrops, the WiiU versiuon would have had to ship probably 100k to break even, and it would have not.

At the end of the day even a Vita version made more sense...

Sorry guys but this really just looks like a business decision. Look at how badly CoD is selling.

I know it sounds like sour grapes, but good riddance to bad rubbish.

While it would be moderately interesting to see it running on Wii U, it is certinly not the kind of game I hope to be playing over the next 5-6 years of that system's lifespan.

Too bad it looks like it is

NFS probably will be a great game, that's why I plan to buy it. Same with batman, I own it. I don't care for AC though. I was probably a bit harsh here. Point is, many 3rd-party games are really subpar, they often think they come away with horrible bad games. but even for the good ones: nobody forces a Nintendo-fan to buy the games, if he hasn't an interest in them. and for all three games is one thing true: they were all out for PS3 and X360 earlier than for WiiU. That also influences sales naturally. Do we have at this point even one multiplat that was released the same time on WiiU as on other consoles and was not gimped? I can't come up with a name.

To the cost-factor: porting mostly involves programming and (to a bigger degree) testing for specific bugs. The models, the textures, music, leveldesign, overall game direction, general game testing and so on is already done. And that by far exceeds the manpower of programming the game in the first place. Porting involves even less programming, especially if some toolkit/engine is used, as it is standard these days. Early WiiU-games might possibly need more tweaking on the engine, that is true - but that is also a work that can be reused for later releases.

And looking at general gaming-sales: Every budget that needs more than 1 million units to break even is stupid and the risk of losses is extremely high. Most AAA-games should break even on some 100K units. Porting-costs are usually much more smaller (i pointed out the reasons in the previous paragraph). Some 10K sounds reasonable for a port of a AAA-game with some effort put into making it a good port.

10x bigger on other plats which have been out for years. CoD selling as much as it has on WiiU is a miracle. No dlc yet and it released after the other versions. If you're just a WiiU hater why post in WiiU threads? Nothing better to do?

I wish there was a snappy comeback for this but there isn't.

No FIFA, no PGA tour(a favorite among the dad-demographic of Wii owners), no Madden.

And that's just the annual sports.

Nintendo really might be in more trouble that they were othewise becuase of the fallout with EA.

Well, Nintendo didn't cater to the casuals so far with the WiiU. That's why WiiU-sales are bad and Just Dance also sell not as good as on Wii.

LOL. I own a lot of 3rd-party for Wii and WiiU. For Wii it is around half my games. For WiiU it is an even bigger share. I can everyone waiting for Mario Kart recommend to try Sonic Racing for instance. And I will buy MH3U, Lego City and most likely also NFS. But some games of 3rd-parties are gimped versions, denying that is simply closing your eyes. Do I need to say FIFA? So going on and saying Nintendo-fans are to blame because they don't buy that shit is ... wrong. Also calling out for not buying late ports. As good as Darksiders II, AC III, Batman and others might be, they were all released on other platforms earlier. And many Nintendo-fans already own them.

What will you say, if WiiU-version of Watchdogs sells better than PS4s? That is not unlikely, as at that point WiiU probably has the bigger install base (expecting Watchdogs this year). Are in that case Sony-fans to blame? I fully expect the game will sell best on PS3 and X360.

That said: Nintendo-fans will buy 3rd-party-games: if they have a basic quality, are not later than on other platforms, are not gimped and generally cater to the audience of the WiiU. That to assure is the job of the 3rd-parties - and of Nintendo. They wouldn't sell their games, if they would fail at this (and they do sometimes with some games). Not the consumer is to blame, if the companies done a bad job - that not in all cases means the game is bad, but it will not sell if it not target the audience of the console.