That's true, there was even a Lego City Wii U bundle, but still, because it was wholly developed by a third-party studio, I myself consider it a 3rd party game.

Arkham games,
Assassin's Creed
Rayman Legends,
Sonic Lost World
Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed (best racing game ever)
I think all of these deserve to sell better...

Hell, the Wii U deserves to sell better.

Unepic (really great)
Zen Pinball
Castle Storm
Rayman Legends
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Batman: Arkham City
Darksiders II
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Lego City Undercover


And I disagree with the OP: Splinter Cell Blacklist and Assassins Creed III don't deserve more sales. Another game to avoid: Rabbidland. Doesn't even compare to Rayman Raving Rabbids or Rabbids go home.

Rayman Legends is by far the best third party game on the Wii U that didn't sell well. The others don't come close.

The others are just late inferior ports that don't deserve big sales. Although that Lego City: Undercover game looks fun, maybe a bit shallow, but a good game nonetheless. 

The "inconvenient truth", if you will, is that for a game to sell well, people actually have to go buy it. They actually have to want to go buy it. And while a lot of gamers play lip service to saying that "third party games on ____ Nintendo console should sell better", when looking at the numbers, it's fairly obvious that a fair majority of those same people do not themselves actually put their money where their mouth is, and go out buy even SOME of these games.


Some people do, but obviously, not nearly enough. And thus the conundrum. People don't really get a right to complain or argue about game sales, if they didn't even try that particular game themselves. If you don't go buy a game yourself, you really don't have much right complaining that other people don't go buy it either.

Ultimately, the only way third party games on Wii U are going to sell better, is if the people doing the complaining about their sales, actually go out and buy the games. Same with the console sales. The only thing that has ever driven sales, if people actually buying.

I don't care what any digital foundry or anything says. I've bought every single Arkham game twice (except Blackgate--only got the 3DS version). Arkham City on Wii U is superior to the PS3 and 360 versions and it deserved to be purchased by as many people as possible. The reviewers focused on the frame rate stutters when new areas loaded. Buy it, people.

Splinter Cell, to my surprise, is great and looks great, too. Ninja Gaiden Razor's Edge was great too. It's available everywhere now, though. At the time, it was worthy and still is if you're in the market for a good beat 'em up. Lego City Undercover was fantastic despite some underwhelming graphics (pics online made it look better than it was) and some looooong loading times. Those are the only ones that I own and fully recommend, though.

Fyi: Arkham Origins on Wii U is a step back and worse than the PS3 version in every way. I still enjoyed it, though.

I might buy it when I get a Wii U. The combat seems a bit slow though, when looking at vids ranging from all consoles, but I could just be imagining things. 

Is there any exploration and puzzlesolving in this game? 

Splinter Cell?  It released the same day as all of the others and it's pretty good.  Deserved better on EVERY platform.

Which game?

Arkham city(armored edition?).