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justiceiro on 19 April 2014

Dunno, for me the real last chance was NFS:MWU.

If that game in someway managed to sell 100K FW, the whole picture of the last year would have been entirily different.

And remenber, a 1 year late port don't stop mass effect 1 to sell 300K on ps3.



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Yakuzaice on 19 April 2014
hated_individual said:
@Onyihide

Wii U had 50.4% and Steam OS beat it after 4 days since the pool started which indicates that Wii U crowd is more responsive and sooner to buy the game also Xbox One and PlayStation 4 seriously lag behind Wii U also I am suspicious of Steam OS votes since all of the sudden everyone started voting for it.... From last to first place... Odd as hell since Steam OS crowd was around 5% when Wii U was at 50.4% ...
Zero999 said:

it was over 50% before.

All this suggests is that some Wii/Nintendo community managed to flood the votes around the start of the poll.



CommonNinja on 19 April 2014

Had it come out on time, it might have sold well, but now that it is delayed, I doubt that it will even make back it's development cost.



Mr Puggsly on 19 April 2014

Based on how CoD:Ghosts, AC4, and other recent games performed on Wii U...

Watchdogs has little chance of being a success on Wii U even if it launched on time.



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Zero999 on 19 April 2014
Yakuzaice said:
hated_individual said:
@Onyihide

Wii U had 50.4% and Steam OS beat it after 4 days since the pool started which indicates that Wii U crowd is more responsive and sooner to buy the game also Xbox One and PlayStation 4 seriously lag behind Wii U also I am suspicious of Steam OS votes since all of the sudden everyone started voting for it.... From last to first place... Odd as hell since Steam OS crowd was around 5% when Wii U was at 50.4% ...
Zero999 said:

it was over 50% before.

All this suggests is that some Wii/Nintendo community managed to flood the votes around the start of the poll.

No, it suggests wii u owners are anticipating the game. what you said is basically denial.



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Scisca on 19 April 2014
Zero999 said:
Yakuzaice said:
hated_individual said:
@Onyihide

Wii U had 50.4% and Steam OS beat it after 4 days since the pool started which indicates that Wii U crowd is more responsive and sooner to buy the game also Xbox One and PlayStation 4 seriously lag behind Wii U also I am suspicious of Steam OS votes since all of the sudden everyone started voting for it.... From last to first place... Odd as hell since Steam OS crowd was around 5% when Wii U was at 50.4% ...
Zero999 said:

it was over 50% before.

All this suggests is that some Wii/Nintendo community managed to flood the votes around the start of the poll.

No, it suggests wii u owners are anticipating the game. what you said is basically denial.

They won't buy it in reasonable numbers either way, so there is no point arguing about it.



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Cobretti2 on 19 April 2014
justiceiro said:
Dunno, for me the real last chance was NFS:MWU.

If that game in someway managed to sell 100K FW, the whole picture of the last year would have been entirily different.

And remenber, a 1 year late port don't stop mass effect 1 to sell 300K on ps3.


NFS suffered because of EA saying we not suporting Wii u. People said FU then. They should have waited till after that to at least let the game sell decent numbers to cover te devs hard effort.  Hell Crysis 3 was  also running on wii u wand was meant to come out but EA stopped it. The dev was kind of pissed of as they put effort into it.

 



 

 

Cobretti2 on 19 April 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
Based on how CoD:Ghosts, AC4, and other recent games performed on Wii U...

Watchdogs has little chance of being a success on Wii U even if it launched on time.


it's a new franchise it has a better change of performing that COD and AC4.  This does not mean it will sell well compared to te other versions.



 

 

Nintentacle on 20 April 2014
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Watchdogs Wii U is already cancelled. Ubi will give it a silent death one month after the launch of the other versions.

At this point, any real 3rd party support is and will stay dead for the Wii U.

The real question is now: "Will Nintendo even give us decent first party support?'

Someone didn't read that there's a rule against trolling.



Yakuzaice on 20 April 2014
Zero999 said:

No, it suggests wii u owners are anticipating the game. what you said is basically denial.

Well here is one example.  http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/project-cars-website-up-vote-for-which-platform-you-are-getting-it-on-help-wii-u.453885101/

Do you also think that Steam OS users are anticipating the game more than any other userbase?

I originally denied that the poll had the Wii U over 50%, because well it wasn't the case.  Otherwise I have asserted that the results of this poll aren't going to be representative in sales numbers.  Wii U owners on forums certainly like to talk about it because the devs have given positive interviews in regards to the Wii U when most other third party devs don't or aren't even developing for the Wii U.  I just don't see it translating to sales across the overall userbase.

I mean it is pretty obvious that polls like this are all about who manages to spread it to their supporters the best.  The number of people who just happened to check their website and vote is likely quite small.  The poll has more than nine times the comments of the other four pieces of news combined.  If it is just people genuinely anticipating the game checking the site and not voters being bussed in from other forums, why aren't they commenting on the other pieces of news?