As long as the Wii U version is released at the same time as the others, it should do pretty good. I'm not a fan of CoD. In fact, I hate the franchise. But I appreciate any support from 3rd parties.

Wii U got late ports of games. Of course they sold horribly. Most people already had the game on the 360 or PS3.

Yet again, it was an exclusive. it cost a lot more than the combined porting expenses for both wii u cods. if the game was multiplat, it would have sold far less on vita.

You guys should really not bother arguing you know, that's why I usually leave my point and leave.

or it would make people migrate faster to the 8th gen, getting them the same amount of sales, but without the extra work of two ports.

I doubt the lack of a PS3/360 version of BO3 would encourage 5 - 10 million extra people to jump onto the 8th gen and buy it there.. ^^; And by that logic, why not skip the WiiU version as well to encourage even more people to buy a PS4 and X1. Then they'd only have to deal with the PS4/X1/PC versions, all much easier and cheaper to port between.

8th gen only tiles certainly increase the transition pace, but not by enough to negate the revenue potential of a cross-gen title (especially something like COD, which won't suffer much from being with around a linear scale). Hence we've seen so many of them.

Then why not make a single version? The wii u is a console competing in the 8th gen and it's audience isn't reduntant with ps4/x1, unlike ps360. porting it there makes all the sense.

If the game is made on Wiiu then it has to be made on ps360 too.... because those 2 extra ports would be made for free uh? No.
They maybe want to expand their audiences, and that makes much more sense than making ports on 2015 for ps360, because is the same audience, and people is upgrading their consoles. It would make more money on ps3 than on wiiu, but if you are looking to the future it makes no sense, if you are able to have a fanbase between Nintendo fans you would have a better future.

Because the WiiU's architecture sticks out like a saw thumb. Only having to deal with x86 heavily simplifies your development process. That you have to deal with the WiiU's lack of RAM and awful CPU (vs a relative balance between the PS4 and X1 for their RAM and CPU) compounds the issue further.

If you wanted the best cost to time ratio possible, only needing to deal with the PS4, X1, and PC would be preferable (and i expect that will be the reality of most major titles in the future).

Considering the absolute panning this game got, I wouldn't bet on it. People just wanted a handheld call of duty. Need for Speed on Vita (a port), sold 870k. More then any third party effort on the Wii U so the exclusivity argument isn't valid.

Borderlands 2, a 2 year late port that recieved bad reviews still sold significantly more then any COD on Wii U. Theres nothing to support the logic that a Wii U version would outperform and PSVita one.