And publishers continue to ask why games don't sell better on WiiU.

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Sniper Elite V2 on Wii U Lacks Online Co-Op and DLC Posted Fri, 24 May 2013 | 10:40 BST by Thomas Whitehead Hardly the "definitive version" Sniper Elite V2 has arrived in stores in Europe and North America with next to no fanfare. When little is said about a port landing on Wii U, and its publisher hasn't even arranged a downloadable eShop version, alarm bells should ring. Yet there's no escaping Miiverse, and it's quickly emerged — thanks to early adopters — that this Wii U version has no online content. We interviewed Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley about the game earlier this year, during which he did confirm that there were no DLC plans at that point; a familiar refrain with some Wii U releases. The absence of the online co-op missions are an unexpected blow, however, baking the title down to a single player-only game. The absence of online play is surprising as we know the Wii U can handle it rather well; many major ports from Ubisoft, Activision and Criterion have featured substantial online play, while Capcom has also delivered most recently this week with Resident Evil Revelations. We're hoping to review the game in due course, but it seems that the absence of online modes is dissatisfying many that are voicing their opinions on Miiverse.

The same game can be had on PS3/Xbox360/PC for $20 and it costs $50-60 on WiiU.

But alas it's always the Nintendo fans' fault for not buying 3rd-party.

Hey, we'd buy it if it was a decent effort. We buy plenty on the 3DS don't we? Maybe because those games actually have some effort behind them?

(Lol Deus Ex is going to bomb though and likely be ported to PS360 anyways derp.)

yep it is totally ninty fans fault for not buying 3rd party games.

Miiverse rocks. I'm sure most publishers HATE how fast negative news spread there...

miiverse is a winner for nintendo and the Wii U

Rebellion? Never heard of them, but I'm assuming they're part of EA, yes?

The other option is to not have 3rd party games at all, cause apparently 3rd parties don't care enough to make a worthwile port, does't matter EA or any other publisher. And last 1st party games were at launch if I'm not mistaken.

So I wouldn't complain that much, especially as a Nintendo only owner. If your not, just cut your loyalism and get those games on your PS360s.

I actually bought this on Wii U at the weekend, for a budget price of £25. Its quite a decent game,with a solid campaign and it doesnt really bother me that it has a lack of co-op and online features. If all games retailers sold it at a budget price, i dont suppose it would be too much of an issue.

Also i have to point out that it is a 3rd party mature stealth/shooter game, on a Nintendo console, with nice graphics and a good campaign. Why complain about the lack of online, surely people would prefer these types of games on Wii U, or would they prefer 3rd parties to start knocking out things like carnival games again.

Well no co-op at all sucks balls. They could at least have implemented offline co-op. But alas, just cut the main draw of the game, what can go wrong?