We knew its flopped, HD versions are 10 times sales better than the Wii version especially the 360. And it still continues selling, so WHY?

Is it because Activision realized that theyre profiting more on the Wii version than in Ps3 and 360 versions? Thats whats happened with GTA IV and Bioshock with Take 2, even its million sellers they cant keep up to make a profit with those games.

It seem we seen change with the third parties already. 3rd parties states huge losses because of the production and development cost of making HD games in PS360. I think soon many third parties will jump ship to the Wii because they cant stand making games anymore in HD consoles...

They can't jump ship. No one will buy their games on Wii.

@Lurker, alot of third party games sell extremely well on wii. Take a look at sega games.

I agree that third party support on wii will only increase.

i was wondering the same, i saw it on tv and was like "a wii commercial?. wtf?"

I gotta agree. I am also very glad to see it. I want to see a good fps install base on the WII, so that when a huge title like the Conduit arrives, we'll see success. I hope COD WAW gets up to 500k on wii that would be excellent.

i think it's because the HD versions don't need any more advertising to sell like crazy while the wii version won't sell anything without advertising. and they realize that they need to build up their strength with wii gamers because very soon thats gonna be larger than the hd market and they need their games to start selling on the wii.

Are you asking why they're marketing the Wii version when it gets outsold so many times over? I think the second part answers the first part.

There's no way Activision could be profiting more from the Wii version than the other three versions. First of all, it;s built on an existing engine, while the Wii's was built for this game. Plus even if the Wii's version gives them more profit for every copy sold, it still isn't selling nearly enough to turn as much of a profit.

Regarding Bioshock and GTA IV, do you have some sort of link that says neither has made a profit? Something is telling me that somewhere along the lines, a game that has sold over 10 million copies will turn some sort of profit. I won't comment on Bioshock, but still, link please.

What is going to happen when Nintendo finally goes HD? It's still going to cost money to make these games, and plenty of it. If all developers do switch to Wii development, then what's going to happen down the line when Nintendo goes HD? Same scenario, they'll need to eat the bigger costs.

OR the Wii version has not flopped as bad as NDP or VGC would have us to think...

just a thought. Dont be shocked when fiscals come out and this thing is under tracked by 30-50%... remember Walmart, Target and TRU and not tracked by NDP... those 3 places strike me as where this game would sell best.

There is no way Activision profits more on WaW on wii then the 360/PS3 versions.  There is no way of even knowing if the wii version has made any money at all.  We know 100% that the HD versions are making massive amounts of money.  The HD engine was already made and had very slight upgrades to it.  The entire game engine needed to be tranfered to the wii, they also sell the wii version for less aswell. 

GTA4 has also sold 11.5mil units. They would of only needed to sell around 4mil copies to make money.  They also received 50mil from Ms for special DLC.  Bioshock would of also made money, around 1mil units would of made money, with a 20% porting cost to the PS3 it only needed to sell 200k.

I am gonna guess that in 5 years the cost of making an HD game will have dropped quite a bit... Still not as cheap as it is to make a Wii game now, but it will get better.