Are gloomy Wii U sales to blame for Battlefield 4 snub? ¦ TruTechNoid

Dice have confirmed that BF4 will not be coming to the Wii U. In an interview Lars Gustavsson said “they didn’t want to take any risks” or “stretch themselves to thin” and “that the team preferred to play it safe”.

I know most people will say that this must be down to Nintendo’s hardware....

[AngelicIceDiamond]

This game and Apparently Epic's Unreal Engine 4 won't be making its way to Wii U.

http://127.0.0.1:1886/start...

Nintendo's E3 of 2013 should be interesting regarding 3rd party support.

[khowat]

Interesting as in there won't be any

Iwata sucks like he should have taken that 50% pay cut a step further and should have stepped down

[lilbroRx]

Considering that most of the news and comments by most is anti-Nintendo, its clear that Iwata stepping down would be a horrible idea for the company and that he is doing a great job. If he was truly responsible for any major problems the no one would be asking for him to step down.

So far, things aren't looking much different from last gen, which Nintendo had the highest sells for both of their hardware and software in. So if everything truly stays the same, then that means Nintendo will be on top in the end major "wester" third party devs. I don't see how that is a bad thing.

People seem to forget that Nintendo still has the support of Japanese third party devs and their games sell quite a bit.

[Donnieboi]

You said:

"Considering that most of the news and comments by most is anti-Nintendo, its clear that Iwata stepping down would be a horrible idea for the company and that he is doing a great job. If he was truly responsible for any major problems the no one would be asking for him to step down."

What kind of deductive reasoning...? That statement makes no sense at all. That was like written in backwards-bizarro speak. How does people on forums asking for Iwata to resign, automatically = that he's doing things right? Putting the merit of Iwata's leadership skills at Nintendo aside, how do u reason that your statement makes any logical conclusive sense? How do a bunch of strangers on n4g have any effect on the effectiveness (or lack there-of) of Iwata's leadership? Wow I don't see any correlation there.

U fanboys never seemed to think logically before. But you sir are one that proves it in every statement you make.

[BrianC6234]

I hope you aren't saying the Wii U is a next gen console. It's far from that. It's what the Wii should have been. It's way too underpowered to compete in the next generation. That's why everyone is dumping their projects. They can already see what's going to happen. They could make Wii U versions of their games but when everyone sees their other versions they won't want the Wii U version so why waste the resources?

[ZeekQuattro]

I wish people would stop with the Iwata should step down. The last 3 gaming devices from Nintendo were all successful. The Wii U will be no different much to many peoples chagrin. Seeing as the main job of a CEO is earning their company money I'd say he's been doing that for years. He has kept losses at a minimum unlike companies such as THQ, EA, and Square Enix. THQ is no more and EA and Square Enix are now in the process of a CEO change. I wonder why?

[Donnieboi]

Of course that's to blame. Why sugar coat it? If EA could make money on the Wii U, then BF 4 would have been their best bet. But there is no money to be made (at the moment). Plus let's not forget to mention the whole ORIGIN fiasco too.

[SJPFTW]

Wii U is not even as powerful as the current xbox and ps3. DICE does not want to even bother

[BrianC6234]

I think the Wii U is more powerful than the PS3 and 360. But not much more powerful. It's not a next gen console. It's a last gen console.

[lilbroRx]

You apparently haven't read the Most Wanted analysis digital foundry or the comments from the Trine 2 dev who specifically said that the PS3/360 couldn't run the version of the game that the Wii U was running without downgrades.

The Wii U is much stronger, its just that most people are "intentionally" basing their its strenght off of bad ports, not the good ports or games that were built from the ground up.

A bad port will run inferior to it original on any system no matter how strong it is. Zone of the Enders on the PS2 runs better than the HD version on the PS3/360. I guess that means the PS2 is stronger than the PS3 and 360 going by the logic of people around here.

[SUKMELONGTIME]

Yup Wii U spanks PS3 and 360 lousy hardware

Wii U has the raw GPU visual horsepower of 350 Gflops

PS3 has 230 Gflops, 360 gets 240 Gflops.

Saying the PS3 and 360 are on par with Wii U, hardware wise, is like saying a Volkwagen Golf TDI (236 pound feet of torque) is on par with an Aston Martin V8 Vantage (346 pound feet of torque)

[SUKMELONGTIME]

Real 'hardcore' gamers already own a gaming rig on which we can enjoy titles like BF3 in glorious 1080p and 4x MSAA.

We've basically been enjoying the stunning graphics that PS4 promises for many years now. Do I really need a $599 PS4 so that I can play 16 vs 16 matches of Battlefield with no dedicated servers and no mouse and keyboard?

No thanks. I'd rather spend my money on Nintendo exclusive experiences which can't be replicated on PC

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

damn ninty.. sorry man.. Hope they make the next wii better.

[SUKMELONGTIME]

It's never been about HARDWARE for Nintendo.

Battlefield 4 won't be on Wii U? Guess what????

Real 'hardcore' gamers DON'T GIVE A DAMN.

We already own gaming rigs that can play the kind of expansive and demanding games that the PS4 promises to deliver in the future.

Do I really need a $599 PS4 so that I can play 16 vs 16 matches of Battlefield with no dedicated servers and no mouse and keyboard?

No thanks. I'd rather spend my money on Nintendo exclusive experiences which can't be replicated on PC

[DeadPixel]

There's always that one guy on every console thread spouting off about his gaming rig 'YAWN' and I loved how you repeated yourself to make sure everyone knows how fantastic your PC is lol

[Half-Mafia]

All Nintendo has to do is release that rumored NFC Pokemon game like the Skylanders game, and they will probably have another Wii on their hands. Along with the 3D Mario, SSB, Mario Kart, Zedla, ect.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I don't think you fully understand why the wii sold to begin with. if they were ever going to capture that market share they would had last year. the reason why the sales are low has more to do with having 0 appeal to either demographic.

if the Wii/ipadz crowed wanted it you would have saw the sales, if the hardcore wanted it you would have seen the sales.

this system is tanking really hard with no end in sight.

[lilbroRx]

there is only 1 reason why sales are low. It has no games. When the games came out last week sells more than double in most places.

A steady stream of "good" retail games are all it needs. Doesn't matter if they are first party, third party of anything else. Nintendo gamers buy Nintendo systems to play "good" games. Its as simple as that.

Almost everyone I know says they are waiting for "XXXXX" game to come out before they get a Wii U. They want the system, all it needs are the games that they want with it.

[sitharrefus]

i feel like this will be a GCN and Wii era again... kinda sucks i owned all systems and its a shame