Ok if Ubisoft is expecting this to sell then they're fucking delusional. Not only is it for a console that isn't selling but it's also coming after the others!? They might as well just cancel it.

looking at the preorders, they never expected it to sell. Hence the delay

I'm betting on the latter. This *was* their chance to cancel it, but if they have utterly lost faith in the product they can at least recoup some money by putting it out there rather than cancel it outright, like EA did with a lot of games they had going before they decided that they didn't want to touch Nintendo platforms at all anymore.

The only way this is getting cancelled at this point is if we're going into a "Colonial Marines" scenario, where the game itself just sucks and isn't worth releasing on any platform, which i have a suspicion might be the case given the weirdness that's surrounded this game since it was first delayed last year.

You also have to consider that, given Assassin's Creed III only cost €1m to port, Assassin's Creed IV should have also made a profit.

It's always precious when Nintendo loyal fans blame everything on third parties, while most would anyway buy Nintendo SW. It's more babbling and rambling out of spite.

In any generation on Nintendo consoles 1st parties have destroyed 3rd parties in sales, you can put that as a strenght of Ninty IPs, a loyal userbase, shitty or lazy devs or what you like... But I fail to see why 3rd parties would be on a scheme to undermine Nintendo since PS1 era. No company put work to sell less, and companies/people is kind of lazy, they will try the easier way. So if with the same effort they will sell a lot better on PS360/Ps4One than on Wii/WiiU why would they go a extra mile to sell better on a platform that have a historic of selling bad on 3rd parties? While people like to say Sony use 3rd parties as clutches and sell less than them. That is basically the reason why Sony have so much 3rd party support even without moneyhat.

But that game was a steaming pile of garbage, which didn't happen to sell particularly well on ANY console, causing Ubi to question the future of trying to shit out another entry every year or two. So Wii U's gimped version, selling less than the other already not that great versions? Not surprising at all.

Notice how, while not amazing sales, ACIII, ACIV, CoD: BLOP2, CoD: Ghosts, Batman, etc. all managed to sell somewhere over the 100k mark. Again, not GREAT numbers by any stretch, but people DID go out and buy them, even with typical gimping action for these Nintendo ports. And those sales are certainly enough for Ubisoft, Warner Bros. and Activision to make at least a modest profit off of those ports. Not enough, perhaps, for them to be inspired to ramp up their Wii U support. But certainly decent enough to make them want to put out the next Batman, CoD, AC, etc.

Regardless, there is no real justification for this, except to imagine that the development of every version of this game is likely in trouble, hence the overall delays, and now they're just bumping the Wii U version back as an excuse to get that development team to help them get the OTHER versions out. This game's concept has a lot of potential, but if Ubi's ambition turns out to be bigger than their ability, and the game winds up crashing hard, it will be poetically ironic. Assuming that it DOESN'T crash/fail, the Wii U version will still come out. Just at a time in the year when it will be guaranteed to sell less. That March/April window in between DKCR2 and MK8 was probably the best window of opportunity Ubi had to maximize the Wii U versions' sales. And much like Rayman, they are once again fucking up.

i think if you'd played blacklist you'd have mentioned it in your post intead of using garbage as an adjetive. I suppose you are blissfully unaware of it's awesomeness from the systems best graphics to the amount of invested brilliance. Blacklist (WiiU) is a must own for any free thinker.

This... Blacklist Wii U was a pretty good game IMO

I loved blacklist. It's too bD the game didn't do better on all systems, it deserves to. My favorite wiiu 3rd party game, and just a great game, regardless of platform.