Both COD games were recieved on time if I'm not mistaken.

Maybe it wouldn't. I think that at this point, if they skip ps360, the sales they'd get from those consoles would move to the next gen. That means they would be wasting time and money on 7th gen ports when they could be polishing the game.

Wii U doesnt have lack of RAM nor awful CPU. But regardless of that, the preferable is reaching the biggest audience possible, and they can't do that without a wii u version.

I don't recall ever saying that a wii u version would outperform a psvita version (although it probably would), only that a non exclusive game would have sold far less. 870k isn't more than any 3rd party effort on wii u and need for speed is a different game, we're talking cod.

Completely agree. We need to think of the children.

You don't consider a 3x1.24Ghz CPU (slower than even the 360's) awful? Even the PS4's CPU could be described as awful, and that's 8x1.60Ghz. You sure have some interesting hardware standards.

I think i'll leave you on that moderately amusing note. We can just agree to disagree :p

So sales from other big multiplatform franchises can't be used to inform us on what COD will do on PSVita? If a 2 years late port of Borderlands 2 could do 400k and a multiplatform Need for Speed could manage 800k (all far more then what any COD on wii u achieved), A multiplatform COD on Vita would surely be do more. I'll leave it there though becuase clearly you're not using any empiracle evidence to inform your opinion.

Assuming the VGC numbers are accurate, I wouldn't really call the Gamecube sales "okay".  For both of the PS2/XB/GC games it was the worst selling by a pretty huge margin.

While the current numbers for CoD3 are relatively close between the 360 and Wii (though these long term sales data without external updates are often way off), at the time they would have made the decision for CoD4 platforms the 360 would have had a wide sales lead.  Also if you want to eliminate the one year advantage, CoD 2 sold much better at the 360's launch period than CoD3 did for the Wii.  That is even considering that VGC is missing European sales data for CoD2 at the time.

I do agree with your overall point that missing CoD4 caused the Wii to miss the overall CoD popularity boat.  Although the degree to them skipping Nintendo platforms is kind of overstated.  Before Advanced Warfare, the only year a Nintendo platform didn't get a Cod release (not counting the DS) was 2007.  That game was then released on Wii in 2009, and the Wii missed MW2 completely.  So for 10 years from 2004 to 2013 there were only 2 years without a primary CoD release, and one of those years had the port of the game it had previously missed.  So only one year without any CoD game, and only one game that skipped Nintendo platforms completely.  Now of course those were probably the two most important years when it came to establishing the sales juggernaut of CoD.  What might have changed if they had been multiplat with the Wii is anyone's guess.

Now if BO3 came out on Wii U and then CoD 2016 skips it there will be a more clear trend of skipping Nintendo platforms.  Though release consistency on Nintendo platforms didn't seem to do much for sales.  The two year late port of CoD4 sold more than the on time Black Ops which sold more than MW3 which sold more than BO2 which sold more than Ghosts.

Actually I think if the COD on Vita was a multiplat port (just downsized graphically) ... it would've sold more, not less. The "custom" version to Vita got was pure crap, lol.

The problem with multiplats on a Nintendo console is even most Nintendo fans who would be interested in something like COD or Watch Dogs have learned over the years that you have to buy a Sony/MS console to get third party content, so they buy those games on those platforms even if they have a Wii U. 

On the Vita at least there's the novelty of portability. 

Black Ops 2 was a week late in the US and two weeks late in Europe since that is when the Wii U came out.  Ghosts was on time. 

Also while the PS3/360 had sold more than 50% of their lifetime totals (in regards to "most people") by the time the Wii U version of BO2 was available worldwide, there were still many millions of copies sold after the Wii U version came out.  I mean the week after the Wii U launch in the US alone, just the 360 version sold more than double the worldwide sales of BO2 Wii U.  Now I'm not saying the Wii U version should have been anywhere close to the 360 version in sales, but it is silly for Paatar to act like everyone already having purchased BO2 was the reason for the poor sales on the Wii U.

I would say Ghosts sales both on the Wii U and the PS4/XBO kind of showed how ridiculous this "late port" argument is.  Being a simultaneous release did little for the Wii U version, while the late ports on the PS4 and Xbox One completely smashed the sales of the Wii U version.