BULL!!! I rented this game at redbox and it was disc 2 WHICH WAS JUST A CONTENT PACK I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO PLAY IT!! this is complete BULL!!! I wasted my money!!!"

Those kind of games may not fit Ninty's audience as well as Xbox's or Playstation's, but they can sell well enough on Ninty systems to be profitable. Unfortunately, from what I gathered reading the official forums, that audience got burned by broken promises and turned their back on the franchise.

There's a lot of anger on those boards. First every other thread was "DLC or no buy" then after we found out it wasn't coming, every other thread was "Treyarch is screwing their fans, I'm not buying anymore". Me, I couldn't care less, I still bought it day 1, and I don't regret it.

Why is the Wii U version barely selling? Because it's barely even getting a mention. Here's advertising for the game in general by the Australian retailer, JB HiFi:

That's right, no sign of it. Even on the page that the banner links to, the only mention of the Wii U is attached to the price itself, in small script. The Wii U box doesn't show up.

They had a special on over the weekend, the 360, PS3, PC, and Wii U versions were all on special, $20 less than normal. The banner advertising it didn't mention the Wii U version - the only way to discover that it was also on special was to navigate through the store or search for the game, and look at the price on the game itself.

My bet is that this is happening elsewhere, too. I don't know if it's because of Activision, Sony/MS, the retailers themselves, Nintendo, or someone else, but this is what happens all the time. EB Games released a guide to games, recently, that went through various multiplatform titles, then exclusives by system. In the multiplatform section, it had Batman: Arkham Origins listed for Wii U and the other platforms. Ghosts, however, was listed for everything *except* Wii U.

Aielyn said: Why is the Wii U version barely selling? Because it's barely even getting a mention. Here's advertising for the game in general by the Australian retailer, JB HiFi: That's right, no sign of it. Even on the page that the banner links to, the only mention of the Wii U is attached to the price itself, in small script. The Wii U box doesn't show up. They had a special on over the weekend, the 360, PS3, PC, and Wii U versions were all on special, $20 less than normal. The banner advertising it didn't mention the Wii U version - the only way to discover that it was also on special was to navigate through the store or search for the game, and look at the price on the game itself. My bet is that this is happening elsewhere, too. I don't know if it's because of Activision, Sony/MS, the retailers themselves, Nintendo, or someone else, but this is what happens all the time. EB Games released a guide to games, recently, that went through various multiplatform titles, then exclusives by system. In the multiplatform section, it had Batman: Arkham Origins listed for Wii U and the other platforms. Ghosts, however, was listed for everything *except* Wii U.

Yeah the local JB Hi Fi here has a big whiteboard with upcoming game releases, and they didn't even mention that Ghosts, Batman, or AC4 were coming to Wii U. I had to point it out to them.

Sad but true. Third parties expect to be heavily subsidized, and Nintendo had one opportunity to do so, last year. Really, Nintendo's relations with third parties will be damaged beyond repair after this generation, except for shovelware, as both sides will have no reason to interact any longer (any successes the Wii U experiences from now on will be entirely Nintendo's victories, cementing Nintendo's belief that they can go it alone, and third parties will see record-low sales of Wii U games as reason to dodge Nintendo platforms in perpetuity).

Granted, i think handheld-home convergence is coming, at least from Nintendo, after the Wii U and 3DS

sales says otherwise unless you think it profitted with such low numbers. Its not just COD its other 3rd party games as well.

I get that people felt scewed but its business maybe Acti didnt feel the need to add DLC support for a version that didnt even sell abobe 250,000

curl-6 said: Aielyn said: Why is the Wii U version barely selling? Because it's barely even getting a mention. Here's advertising for the game in general by the Australian retailer, JB HiFi: That's right, no sign of it. Even on the page that the banner links to, the only mention of the Wii U is attached to the price itself, in small script. The Wii U box doesn't show up. They had a special on over the weekend, the 360, PS3, PC, and Wii U versions were all on special, $20 less than normal. The banner advertising it didn't mention the Wii U version - the only way to discover that it was also on special was to navigate through the store or search for the game, and look at the price on the game itself. My bet is that this is happening elsewhere, too. I don't know if it's because of Activision, Sony/MS, the retailers themselves, Nintendo, or someone else, but this is what happens all the time. EB Games released a guide to games, recently, that went through various multiplatform titles, then exclusives by system. In the multiplatform section, it had Batman: Arkham Origins listed for Wii U and the other platforms. Ghosts, however, was listed for everything *except* Wii U. Yeah the local JB Hi Fi here has a big whiteboard with upcoming game releases, and they didn't even mention that Ghosts, Batman, or AC4 were coming to Wii U. I had to point it out to them.

i dont know where you guys live but where im at when they advertise a game the list ALL platforms, including Wii U

If COD wasn't profitable on Nintendo systems, Activision wouldn't have invested in 8 of them across Wii and Wii U.

It is a cascading effect. I was one of the first of my friends to shift to PS3. Then when the other games come along later they had no one to play with so some of them followed me others went to 360. I even got the game on Wii jsut so I could play with one friend that couldn't afford more than one console lol.

The fact is IW has always shunded Nintendo systems even to this day. It may be for good reason I don't know. But what I do know is any serious audience that did exists on Wii ended up on PS360. Part of that was obviously Nintendos fault has the hardware wasn't capable of delivering HD gfx so developers did not want to spend too much effort downporting so they didn't bother.

This is why I said before the gen started Nintendo need to forget about trying to get hardcore gamers to switch form their system.

They need to instead retain their kids who grow into adults. These  future adults will become the hardcore gamer on their platform, assuming they  can retain them. Nintendoland if it was better executed is a good way to market your IPs. then steadly release them over time and these kids can identify with them.

However they seem to be stuck between two world and no one exactly know who they are targetting. So at this stage I cannot see how multiplatform games will ever sell a decent number on a Nintendo system unless somehting drastic changes.

I don't get why Activision release COD for the Wii U when they know it not gonna sell very well. Does anybody play a FPS game on a Nintendo console ?