Nintendo DICE rumor: Nintendo fans are all talk; Activision pissed with BLOPS 2 Wii U sales

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Damn..... I'm sorry but i agree with him. Like alot of fans just plain and simple like to complain about any game. It's sad to think that many potentially good games are canceled for the Wii U and i can't blame them for being pissed

 

and I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the console is what... four months old?

 

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First off all, to even think that Black Ops 2 would do remotely well is stupid. I guess there are some people that only own a Wii U, but honestly that is really unlikely/pretty rare I guess considering how the Wii U is fairly new to begin with. No one thinks, "oh hey let's buy a Call of Duty game for Wii U, that'll totally go over well considering ALL MY FRIENDS will be online playing that." No.

Second of all, Nintendo doesn't market anything third parties do very well, because they would much rather put their self published games as priority. I'm sure things like that is mentioned in passing, but Nintendo's first priority is games made for and by Nintendo. Besides, a Wii U's target audience isn't really the COD "type".

However, I think it goes both ways. For example, with Ubisoft pushing back the Rayman title in order to make it a multiplatform release is just as idiotic. Instead of delaying an already finished title, make it a timed exclusive. While I'm sure there will be better sales due to a broader audience (and I see the developer's point about "not enthusiasm" for the console, pulling shit like that won't make it any better. The Rayman title would have done just fine as a Wii U exclusive, hell it may have even urged some people to get a Wii U, just look at it, it stylistically is perfect for a Nintendo console and is more the target audience, plus other Rayman (and Tonic Trouble idk if anyone remembers that) titles have been on Nintendo platforms before.

This is a similar situation for the Playstation Vita, a bunch of promises for games and great potential, but crappy as hell launch lineups and a lack of news. It's only until recently that the Vita and Wii U are starting to shape up as something worth dropping a couple hundred bucks on. Nintendo's Wii U recent news with new titles that will be shown at E3 should be interesting and hopefully kickstart developers to "develop" for the console and hopefully get more third party support. Because honestly, the Wii U up until this point doesn't have much to offer so I'm not surprised people (both developers and fans) are disappointed.

 

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WAY too early to make even an estimate.
They're not really even comparable in the first place, they both occupy very different markets.
Really it comes down to how the PS4 sells. And if they have a launch as good as the PS3 then... yeah.
But if they keep this good idea streak tehy've had going with PS+, and actually have a good launch for the PS4, that would be crazy.[DOUBLEPOST=1362204522][/DOUBLEPOST]

Yeah, CoD being a multiplayer community focused event kinda puts a damper on potential sales... kinda wonder how the marketing team didn't see that coming.
And I have reason to DOUBT Rayman will do better. They're delaying the game to the busiest release time of the year. They're going up against all the big names. It's probably going to end up drowning in a sea of far more hyped and advertised products, especially considering all the promises for big reveals at E3 we're getting this year (NEW SMASH BROS!)

 

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Yeah honestly no one should be worried that a price hasn't been announced for the PS4 yet. It's a marketing (I don't want to say ploy but yeah it's a ploy) strategy that they would only say fabulous things about the PS4 for its unveiling and leave the bad news for later. They would be absolutely insane to release it at $600 or whatever the hell they priced the PS3 at during its release. However, I because they are making a big ass deal about the Vita with the Playstation 4, I could see them making a bundle package with that if not immediately during launch, perhaps down the line, idk? It wouldn't be any skin off of my back if they didn't do that though. A saving grace for the Vita is that it isn't region locked, similar to how the PSP wasn't region locked either so importing games, mostly RPGs I suppose, would increase your library????? I still think it's dumb to charge for a game you already purchased. Yay for UMDs on the PSP, the most useless form of game storage medium ever. Right on, Sony.

Nintendo is lucky that is able to substantiate itself, though it has been losing money. At the very least it is a good thing that Nintendo sells pretty well both in the east and the west, unlike Microsoft who is just dead in the water in places like Japan because the marketing strategy is SO WRONG omg. Japanese are not interested in the XBOX and I am speaking from experience but obviously that has been written about so many times. If anything developers should stop porting/translating XBOX games (WHICH ARE REGION LOCKED) to Japan before they stop developing for Nintendo. smh.

Basically, both statements are ludicrous. If they are obviously going to continue developing for Nintendo because they don't want a bad relationship with them, then obviously they think they know where there is money to be had. Fans are always going to complain, but the 3000 people playing BLOPS 2 on the Wii U isn't exactly a substantial enough portion of the population to be super upset that COD didn't do well on a WII U. I mean come on...no surprises that they are going to buy a NINTENDO game for a NINTENDO console. ~Wow revelations~

I guess we should all just toss the consoles and join the PC master race that Gaben has been touting for years. CONSOLES ARE DEAD YA'LL CAN GO HOME NOW!!!1111

 

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This is stupid. Innovation should not be punished by bad sales or the lack of support from the industry. I may not have a WiiU but this is making me care for it more so than before, because it deserves it.

 

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I kind of have to say that Activision is to blame here. When most people own a PS3 or 360, do you really think people are going to go buy a WiiU and but Black Ops 2 for it when the community has always been very small. I played Black Ops on the Wii, there was never more then 10k people online. Majority of my friends that played eventually got a 360 or PS3 and moved on to them where CoD is usually at its top in players.