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Fusioncode said:
curl-6 said:
Fusioncode said:

Nintendo fans have to meet Activison half way. If the Ghosts sells well on WiiU, then they'll put more effort into next year's version. If it bombs then they could drop the system all together. 

I did meet them halfway; I bought Ghosts on Wii U day 1.

Well you did your part. Now get the other 4 million WiiU owners to do theirs. 

How do I do that?



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as someone said before the fact that WIi U is the ONLY platform not getting Destiny should tell you how they really feel, they'll keep putting out Skylanders but dont be surprised if there is not COD next year, but dont be surprised if their is.



Fusioncode said:

To Activision's credit, they have been one of the few major 3rd publishers supporting the WiiU. The other being Ubisoft. They've brought COD Ghosts, Skylanders, and The Amazing Spider-man over. But will they continue supporting them next year? They recently released free DLC for COD Ghosts on every platform BUT the WiiU. And it's not much, just an extra game mode that adjusts player health. You can't tell me they didn't have the time to update on WiiU as well. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the WiiU version of Ghosts only accounted for 0.3% of the total game's sales? Why would they bother with such a small userbase? Will Activision be the next publsher to jump ship? 

The next amazing spiderman has been already confirmed, and the port of CoD is made by only 38 persons so is generating profits (small ones), but they will not provide DLC for the CoD version of Wii U because the testing is very expensive. So I don't think they will jump ship, but they will be selective with the games they will bring to the platform.



curl-6 said:
Fusioncode said:
curl-6 said:
Fusioncode said:

Nintendo fans have to meet Activison half way. If the Ghosts sells well on WiiU, then they'll put more effort into next year's version. If it bombs then they could drop the system all together. 

I did meet them halfway; I bought Ghosts on Wii U day 1.

Well you did your part. Now get the other 4 million WiiU owners to do theirs. 

How do I do that?

I'm not sure, but if WiiU owners don't support 3rd party games then they won't get 3rd party games. 



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Fusioncode said:

Well you did your part. Now get the other 4 million WiiU owners to do theirs.

I also bought Ghost week 1, but the Wii U owners that I know are VERY price sensitive, last week a major store in my country was giving a very good discount in some games including Black Ops 2, and guess what, now the Wii U community that I joined (160 and growing) is getting tournaments of that game every weekend, because a lot of people took advantage and bought the game, so is hard to get them to buy the new game.



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Fusioncode said:
Incubi said:
I believe UbiSoft and Activision will support WiiU on a title per title basis. Basically, they'll release titles they think might do well on WiiU and not release titles not likely to do well. If Activision do release COD in 2014, it will likely be with metroid dread-like additional content (just like the zombie mode/alien invasion mode).

If they can't even patch in a new gamemode that all other platforms got, do you really think they'll make exclusive content for the WiiU version?

I didn't say they would, only that it is what they need to do to sell that game to the WiiU audience. Most likely they wont. 



PS is the only brand they have threatened to pull all support from so far and that was a few years ago when PS3 wasn't selling so well and neither was PSP (To Activision standards)



ListerOfSmeg said:
PS is the only brand they have threatened to pull all support from so far and that was a few years ago when PS3 wasn't selling so well and neither was PSP (To Activision standards)

And that didn't happen because PS3 owners bought a ton of Activision games. 



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Fusioncode said:

I'm not sure, but if WiiU owners don't support 3rd party games then they won't get 3rd party games. 

I can't say I blame fans for skipping lazy ports, which the Wii U gets too many of.

Basically, I'll support the kind of games I want to see; good games that aren't inferior on Wii U.



curl-6 said:
Fusioncode said:

I'm not sure, but if WiiU owners don't support 3rd party games then they won't get 3rd party games. 

I can't say I blame fans for skipping lazy ports, which the Wii U gets too many of.

Basically, I'll support the kind of games I want to see; good games that aren't inferior on Wii U.

I get that, but that's also the sort of sentiment that's holding 3rd party support back. Nintendo fans won't buy 3rd party games that won't measure up, publishers won't put more effort into the games they release because people don't buy what they do put on it. 



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