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superchunk on 27 March 2013

Well, saves me $60 to be spent on a different game.



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VGKing on 27 March 2013
wfz said:
I'm sure it's already been said in this thread, but hopefully the game sees a release on the Wii U along with the PS4 and 720, whenever it eventually releases on those consoles.

PS4 is coming this holiday. I'm sure BF4 will be there at launch.



Mnementh on 27 March 2013
Carl2291 said:
zippy said:
Funny how all these types of threads are posted by a Sony fan ;)


Talking about the topic at hand, rather than trying to deflect the negativity back onto the OP... Is usually a good thing to do.

Anyway. I predicted it about a Year ago now that the Wii U would struggle for support in the opening 20 Months, though Im surprised its not getting this considering its EA and EA philosophy is to milk everything like a big bovine whore for all that its worth.

Nintendo need the big hitters out soon or interest in Wii U simply wont grow.

EAs philosophy included avoiding the Dreamcast and the Wii. While the support of all western developers (except Ubisoft) for Wii was bad, EAs was a bit worse. Now they go a step more. I said in another thread, I think EA wants to simplify the market and get rid of a console they were never really big on and that offers heavy competition (in form of Nintendo). Same thing Capcom does with the Vita.



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KungKras on 27 March 2013
TheLastStarFighter said:
Battlefield is the "me too" to CoD. It's the Sonic to Mario, the Rock Band to Guitar Hero. It's a big seller, but second fiddle in the war shooters category. It's a significant absence for Wii U, no question, but the titles the system needs are the ones I listed. If CoD is on Wii U and sells millions (not a couple 100k) then Battlefield will follow. It's tough for the also-rans on a Nintendo console. Consumers this fall will pick up Zelda, MarioU and MarioKartU. After that Watch_Dogs, AC4 and CoD will battle for interest. When the world's biggest shooter is relegated to 2nd level interest because of a flagship Mario, the second-place shooter becomes an afterthought.

You have obviously never played Battlefield.

It's a PC shooter, leagues ahead of CoD in scale.



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kupomogli on 27 March 2013
Suke said:
This sucks for the gamers, which is why I recommend Wii U owners to buy Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Show devs that you care about multiplats. The main reason you never see multiplats on Nintendo consoles is because comsumers only buy them for the first party exclusives.

Wii U owners, if you really want this game, show it, show Nintendo you want multiplats. Sign petitions, do what ever it take to get the word out. I may not be the biggest Nintendo fan, but I don't want to see Nintendo to be ignore like this.

This. 

Most people who own Nintendo consoles don't buy third party on them and they're the reason that the support on the consoles have been so poor and there's next to no support for the Wii U.

The Wii U has sold around three million consoles with Zombie U being the third highest selling game on the console with 380,000.  Only 11 games have sold 100,000 or more. 



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Maris on 27 March 2013

I wouldn't call Battlefield a second-tier franchise by any means.

This is expected though, considering the relationship between EA and Nintendo. Wii U's userbase isn't large enough yet for EA to make easy money either, so Wii U gets nothing for now.



crissindahouse on 27 March 2013
superchunk said:
Well, saves me $60 to be spent on a different game.

not really since you said in another thread that you won't buy it because it's from ea.



KungKras on 27 March 2013
kupomogli said:
Suke said:
This sucks for the gamers, which is why I recommend Wii U owners to buy Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Show devs that you care about multiplats. The main reason you never see multiplats on Nintendo consoles is because comsumers only buy them for the first party exclusives.

Wii U owners, if you really want this game, show it, show Nintendo you want multiplats. Sign petitions, do what ever it take to get the word out. I may not be the biggest Nintendo fan, but I don't want to see Nintendo to be ignore like this.

This. 

Most people who own Nintendo consoles don't buy third party on them and they're the reason that the support on the consoles have been so poor and there's next to no support for the Wii U.

The Wii U has sold around three million consoles with Zombie U being the third highest selling game on the console with 380,000.  Only 11 games have sold 100,000 or more. 

Nintendo gamers bought a lot of third party games when their consoles were treated in an acceptable manner by third parties. When they started getting treated like shit, post SNES/N64, they bought less.

On the handhelds, where they haven't been given the middle finger, third party sales have always been healthy.



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Mr Khan on 27 March 2013
pezus said:
F0X said:
Is this a DICE decision or is it an EA decision? I need to know who I should criticize.

Probably DICE. They didn't want to sacrifice the project (spread themselves too thin). That usually doesn't matter to EA

EA flat-out refused to let over Crysis 3, which was partly developed. Even if DICE did care, EA would make sure it didn't happen.



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TheLastStarFighter on 27 March 2013
KungKras said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
Battlefield is the "me too" to CoD. It's the Sonic to Mario, the Rock Band to Guitar Hero. It's a big seller, but second fiddle in the war shooters category. It's a significant absence for Wii U, no question, but the titles the system needs are the ones I listed. If CoD is on Wii U and sells millions (not a couple 100k) then Battlefield will follow. It's tough for the also-rans on a Nintendo console. Consumers this fall will pick up Zelda, MarioU and MarioKartU. After that Watch_Dogs, AC4 and CoD will battle for interest. When the world's biggest shooter is relegated to 2nd level interest because of a flagship Mario, the second-place shooter becomes an afterthought.

You have obviously never played Battlefield.

It's a PC shooter, leagues ahead of CoD in scale.

Didn't say it's not better.  Or different.  It's still a military shooter with less than half the sales of CoD.  It is second fiddle.  Rockband was better than Guitar Hero, many people liked Sonic better than Mario. Regardless, one is iconic with name value, one much less.  Right now Wii U needs the name value titles to sell hardware.  The others will follow if there is money to be made.

That said, I do think not having Battlefield is significant because it will be graphically of high quality on next gen titles.  It's also one that easily could have been on Wii U if they wanted, unlike titles that were mostly done with PS360 in mind.