If Mario Kart sells systems well, and the new owners take to the perfectly function free online and offscreen play, this could pay off for Activision. Its a smart move to give it one more try.

NOOOOO WAAAAAYYY

If this is about western releases, then your original post didn't make a ton of sense.  Of the last four Tales games to come out on Nintendo systems, two of them came to the west, including the most recent one.  That doesn't really fit with "Namco refuses to release this series on Nintendo systems".  That's a better ratio than the most recent four Tales game released on non-Nintendo systems (though apparently Xilia 2 and Hearts PSV were announced for the west in April which will put those ahead.)

I'm also not sure how that is overwhelming evidence.  Basically Symphonia did well 10 years ago.  Since then compared to the PS3 and 360 releases tales did worse in the west on the "massive hit" known as the Wii, and slightly better on the 3DS.  Although, the NPD numbers I can find are significantly different from the numbers VGC has, so this comparison might not even be useful.

The main thing they don't seem to like to do is release handheld games in the west.  Seems like so far only one GBA, one PSP and one 3DS game have gotten full western releases.  Also it doesn't look like any mobile games have made it over.  Really, other than Graces they seem to treat Nintendo releases the same as others in terms of whether it comes to the west or not.  I'd imagine that Vesperia PS3's success and Graces Wii's lack of it shifted their priorities from "let's release this in the west" to "let's release this on PS3".  If Dawn of the New World had performed like the first Symphonia in the west, I'd imagine their plans might have been different.

This has happened for every COD game since Black Ops 1 in 2010; Sony and Microsoft versions are announced, no word on a Nintendo port.

Then, months later, a Wii/Wii U version is quietly disclosed, and nothing is shown of it until release.

Expected but good news nonetheless. I'm hoping it stands up well against the other next gen offerings. I have a feeling it will.

Until Activision start releasing games on the eshop, as far as I'm concerned Activision don't make Wii U games. As someone who's not played many COD games I wouldn't might playing one every five years or so and if a well received iteration came out on Wii U eshop I'd probably think it's due.

The question is why. Shit's baffling.

One of the COD Wii U devs posts on the community forums, and he's as baffled about it as we are.

That doesn't make much sense. Why would Sony or Microsoft waste money on trying to downplay a WiiU port that isn't going to hurt them in any way. 

It's cool, I guess the port is dirt cheap considering they have the engine in place. It's also fun to play CoD with motion controls - I'd buy every CoD if it supported Move.


The thing that really matters is why Acti is ignoring Vita. This really pisses me off. It will take 4-5 iterations of CoD on Wii U to sell as much as the shitty CoD: Declassified sold on Vita. The market is clearly there, yet they just choose ignore it. This is truely stupid on their part.