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JazzB1987 on 15 December 2013
Fusioncode said:
This isn't very surprising, people don't buy the WiiU to play 3rd party games.


People dont buy the Wiiu to play mainstream games.


COD 3 sold well on Wii and then Activision killed the Nintendo COD fanbase with ModernWarfare not coming to Wii (it just came out a year later but that was to late)

Blops was a good game  but Ghosts removed cool stuff Blops had.....  (ghosts is a shit game anyway)



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Mr Khan on 15 December 2013
fps_d0minat0r said:
I really dont understand the advertising argument.
every time I see a trailer for a third party game, it ends with either an xbox logo or sony/playstation logo, I have never seen a third party multiplatform game end with a nintendo or wii logo.

Activision dont randomly pick a logo to put at the end, the logo is there because that company has partly paid for the advert. If nintendo doesnt want to, thats their problem.

It goes deeper than that with Ghosts, though. They refused to even announce the Wii U version until well after the others had emerged.



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Licence on 15 December 2013

It's a pity, but Ghosts is the first COD since MW I'm not getting for the Wii/U. Just seems to me like they have really dumbed down the campaign, and I'm not interested in MP.



Barozi on 15 December 2013
fps_d0minat0r said:
I really dont understand the advertising argument.
every time I see a trailer for a third party game, it ends with either an xbox logo or sony/playstation logo, I have never seen a third party multiplatform game end with a nintendo or wii logo.

Activision dont randomly pick a logo to put at the end, the logo is there because that company has partly paid for the advert. If nintendo doesnt want to, thats their problem.

Just Dance ads have a Wii logo at the end. Well at least in my country.
Maybe Skylanders as well but I can't quite remember.



Buzzeh on 15 December 2013

There are several reasons why, the Wii U version of the game is the least important to activision, the patches are released way later then the other versions, and that is only IF a patch gets released at all. There are still major bugs on Black Ops 2 that never got fixed. Then there is the DLC, if you go to the Call of Duty Wii U section every other post is about DLC. Im also sure the Wii U version has other missing things just like BO2 did, so who would want to buy Ghosts on Wii U to begin with? After the crappy BO2 port i bought i will not be buying Ghosts and that is what many other Wii U owners think



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chapset on 15 December 2013

There goes the whole user base argument we been reading about for the last year every time a third party game failed on the wii U.



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jonathanalis on 15 December 2013

0.33%?
The multiplats from ubisoft used to be 3%, 9 times more.

will the next version of CoD apear in wii U?



brendude13 on 15 December 2013
Wright said:
Weedlab said:
How did COD BLOPS 2 do on Wii U? And how is the quality of this COD on the machine? Does it run well? Just ... curious. I didn't follow this game to be honest.


According to VGChartz, Black Ops 2 sold 210k units, and it was the best version available. It is also in the top 15 best-selling WiiU games. No clue about Ghosts.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.



Goatseye on 15 December 2013
mysteryman said:
Goatseye said:

Really? Gamers choosing the games they want is hurting other genres?

FPS rose to the top because a lot of them were engaging, pushed hardware capabilities and promoted onlne social gaming. It innovated game industry in the last 10 years more than any other genre.

Your analysis correlating violence out there and gaming is plainly wrong and asinine.

Humans were always amazed at explosion and gun sounds. That's why action movies sell more than a romance or drama.

But most of us don't wanna partake in a war because we know it's outcome is more than virtual.

Obviously.  Increased development costs lead to much greater risk for individual titles, and more incentive to just play it safe. Appealing to the masses stifles development in less popular genres, and innovation in popular ones.

Have you ever played games from Xbox Live Arcade?

Multiple million sellers for less than $20 on all kinds of genres and very innovative.

Some commercially successful games are:

Trials- sport

Minecraft- open wold

State of Decay- RPG/Open World

Splosion man- Platformer

Iron Brigade- Tower Defense/3rd Person Shooter

Etc,...



Areym on 15 December 2013
NightDragon83 said:
Areym said:
I say good! CoD should not be expanding, instead it should be shrinking so we can finally move out of the FPS craze and jump into a glorious RPG phase.

Hate to break it to you bub, but the "glorious RPG phase" ship sailed a decade ago during the PS1/PS2 days, and it's not coming back to port anytime soon. (thankfully IMHO).


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