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curl-6 on 02 June 2014

Another one bites the dust: Ninjablade's 11th alt is history. I'm getting good at this.

Anyway, even if it is coming, I doubt Advanced Warfare Wii U will be revealed at E3; Ghosts Wii U wasn't revealed until July, and Black Ops II not until September.



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TheLastStarFighter on 02 June 2014
DerNebel said:
Mr Khan said:
DerNebel said:

Yeah sure, as if MS or Sony would waste money on that. The Wii U version is absolutely no threat to their sales.

Then you explain why Activision acts like the game doesn't exist at all? Why confuse people for no reason?

I don't know. Whatever it is, Sony or MS are not paying Activision to keep the Wii U version a secret, that's a completely ridiculous conspiracy theory, they have nothing to gain from that.

It's not at all.  COD has been the lead game on XBox since the launch of 360, even though its not an exclusive title.  It's not a stretch at all to think that MS gives Activision cash to not promote the Wii U version.  Or perhaps its simply a lack of funds from Nintendo while MS and Sony both provide marketing $$$.



TheLastStarFighter on 02 June 2014

As long as its coming, I'm pumped. I really enjoy some COD mixed in with some Mario, X, Zelda and Watch_Dogs.

The lack of promotion thing is baffling though, it would cost nothing extra to include the Wii U logo on the promotional material. There is definitely a financial push from somewhere, either funds from MS to imply its not available on Wii U or a lack of funds from Nintendo that Activision enjoys from the other platforms.

But again regardless, I'm just happy if its there. COD fills a genre void that Nintendo doesn't provide.



TheDarkLink on 02 June 2014

I would like to know why they are always only announce all versions without the nintendo versions??? Why is Nintendo console always the last console it get announced???



fleischr on 02 June 2014
TheDarkLink said:
I would like to know why they are always only announce all versions without the nintendo versions??? Why is Nintendo console always the last console it get announced???


Because it's outsourced to Treyarch each time. They have to work out a deal with Activision and Nintendo before anything is announced.



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Mr Khan on 02 June 2014
oniyide said:
Mr Khan said:
curl-6 said:

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.

The question is why. Shit's baffling.

Because they dont NEED to, your theory is silly especially since we KNOW that MS has exclusive advertising with Xbox, been like that for years. ITs still funny how some people hold on to their conspiracy theories. Wii U version accounts for less than 1% of overall sales, laughable. Why would they even waste time with that? Hell be happy its even coming at all, Wii U fans know it is they will buy it if they want to and judging by the sales they really dont want to.

Right, and i'm just wondering if, as part of that advertising deal, Activision must delay announcement of versions for Nintendo platforms? It could be that Microsoft tried to get Activision to run it as a pretend exclusive (again, as a part of this advertising deal), but given the sales parity with PS, Activision said no, so they just settled with excluding Nintendo platforms.)



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TheDarkLink on 02 June 2014
fleischr said:
TheDarkLink said:
I would like to know why they are always only announce all versions without the nintendo versions??? Why is Nintendo console always the last console it get announced???


Because it's outsourced to Treyarch each time. They have to work out a deal with Activision and Nintendo before anything is announced.

Then they should do that before they announce the game so that they can announce the Nintendo versions along with the other ones at the same time if this is true ;)



TheLastStarFighter on 02 June 2014
Mr Khan said:
oniyide said:
Mr Khan said:
curl-6 said:

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.

The question is why. Shit's baffling.

Because they dont NEED to, your theory is silly especially since we KNOW that MS has exclusive advertising with Xbox, been like that for years. ITs still funny how some people hold on to their conspiracy theories. Wii U version accounts for less than 1% of overall sales, laughable. Why would they even waste time with that? Hell be happy its even coming at all, Wii U fans know it is they will buy it if they want to and judging by the sales they really dont want to.

Right, and i'm just wondering if, as part of that advertising deal, Activision must delay announcement of versions for Nintendo platforms? It could be that Microsoft tried to get Activision to run it as a pretend exclusive (again, as a part of this advertising deal), but given the sales parity with PS, Activision said no, so they just settled with excluding Nintendo platforms.)

This makes perfect sense really.  There are millions of COD fans.  If MS can eliminate one of the potential platform options to play COD on, it's good for them.  Activision doesn't make that much off COD on Wii U anyway, so the extra cash to delay the announcement is probably worth it to them.

Many consumers really think of COD as an XBox title, or at least an XBox or PS title.  They don't even know you can play it on Wii U.



Dunban67 on 02 June 2014
AZWification said:
small44 said:
They should make it to Vita instead of Wii u

A small flop is much better than a big flop I guess!


So you are saying they SHOULD put it on Vita.  If it is on the Wii u no reason it shouldn't t be on the Vita



Dunban67 on 02 June 2014
Mr Khan said:
DerNebel said:
Mr Khan said:
DerNebel said:

Yeah sure, as if MS or Sony would waste money on that. The Wii U version is absolutely no threat to their sales.

Then you explain why Activision acts like the game doesn't exist at all? Why confuse people for no reason?

I don't know. Whatever it is, Sony or MS are not paying Activision to keep the Wii U version a secret, that's a completely ridiculous conspiracy theory, they have nothing to gain from that.

Again, you have to provide an explanation of equal or better value, or don't shoot mine down. I agree that the Wii U version presents no threat to the sales of an PS/XB versions, but then why would Activision hurt a version of their own game by acting like it doesn't exist when it does? It makes more sense to think that, as part of that exclusive content deal they signed with Microsoft, for instance, that Nintendo versions of the game have to be announced later. Not a whole separate deal to bury the Nintendo versions, but part of another promotional deal.

But why would they exclude just Nintendo?   Since they are no threat it's not worth excluding them 

to say the only explanation is MSFT or Sony must have paid off Activision to keep the Wii u version silent is like saying you heard a sound in the woods you could not identify therefore the only explanation is that it was Bigfoot