Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition Isn’t Coming To Wii U

Here is business 101.

The Wii U sold 400,000 plus units in November of last year. The Wii U sold 1.7 million units in December of last year. The Wii U sold 3.06 million in 45 days following launch. These are record numbers. This with a bunch of retread multiplats.

I’ve worked in retail for over 15 years. I’ve worked for Best Buy and for GameStop. EVERY year Nintendo outsells the competition in the holidays. It has been that way longer than you have probably even been born.

So it’s obviously brilliant to NOT release a version on the WIi U considering at all ready has a larger install base and has 1st and 2nd party exclusives games like Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Sonic: Lost World, Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports U, Super Mario 3D World, Windwaker HD, and Mario and Sonic: Winter Olympics and being available on the Wii U this holiday season in edition to 3rd party titles such as Rayman Legends, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV, etc.

*rolleyes even harder*

There is no conspiracy against Nintendo. It’s crystal clear what the issue is. In addition to what I already explained (which you purposefully ignored because it ruins your whole point) developers are either lazy, poor, or both and that is the reason. You clearly have no idea on what you are talking about so I will explain what you were trying to say but have ti actually make sense.

Developers don’t have the time or money to figure out the complex architecture of the Wii U. Developers need to make money fast in this economy. It is extremely difficult to make games in this day and age. Unless the title is a blockbuster studios don’t really make a whole lot of money. Also, a lot of developers don’t necessarily hire the best people for the job, but people they want in their inner circle so you don’t always have the most talent staff you could have. That combined with the fact that there is a a general lack creativity in the industry as a whole nowadays and gamers have become programed to accept cut and paste job games and shun games that are introducing something different people only flock to certain games. Look at that last Tomb Raider or the last Dead Space 3. Those games cost a absurd amount of money to develop and yet neither title cracked 3 million sales. In fact, Dead Space 3 didn’t even crack 2 million. But yet Grand Theft Auto V is already at 21 million.

To put that into perspective on the topic at hand, Injustice barely sold 1.5 mil worldwide. So it certainly makes since why you would make sure you have versions on the PS3 and 360 because those two consoles combined have the largest install base of any console available. The PS4 isn’t going to be anywhere near the (CURRENT) Wii U install base for at least 5-7 months and that is being generous. Not only is the PS4 more expensive, but it also will not have a lot of games in it’s launch window. Neither will the XBOX One. Why do you think Microsoft is working so hard to get Killer Instinct up and running? It’s because they don’t have a whole lot else. With Sony, one of the few EXCLUSIVE games that goes people fired up for the PS4 was Infamous: Second Son, but that is being pushed back to next year. So other than Killzone: Shadowfall what lure is there for the PS4 that you CAN’T play on any other console?

In addition to that, while Sony and Microsoft made idiot-proof consoles where lazy and or incompetent developers can hide behind the technology, it still require FAR more resources (in terms of manpwoer and money) to make games for the PS4. Dont believe me? Here is what Eric Boltjes from Guerilla Games has to say about it.

Guerrilla Games’ Eric Boltjes explains PS4’s easier architecture
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Guerrilla Games’ lead designer on Killzone: Shadow Fall has explained that while the PlayStation 4 is easier to create a title for thanks to its architecture, it’s also a lot more demanding.

“The architecture is really cool because it’s easier to develop for, you get more memory, you get more hard drive space, you get more processing power so the architecture is easier,” Eric Boltjes told VG247.

“It’s also a lot more demanding, because the production effort needed just to make a next-gen title now is not doubled; It’s quadrupled.”

“That’s because everything needs to look that much better. It takes a lot more people, and that takes a lot more communication. So it does it make things a lot more easier from a technical standpoint, but from a professional standpoint it makes things a lot harder.”

He likened the process to “leaving your save data for something new and scary” but also said that being on the next-generation platform was of paramount importance to Guerrilla. In fact it was a decision that had been made about two and a half years ago.

So there you have it. Even though it is easier to makes games on the PS4 than it was the PS3 (and keep into account that the PS3 was ridiculously difficult to program for versus the 360) it still will take as long if not LONGER to develop for and cost significantly more money. All that extra manpower need means more money going out the door in salary before one penny in profit is returned.

Which….is why as I said in the very beginning why developers aren’t bringing games and/or DLC to the Wii U. They don’t have the time, they don’t have the money. It’s not a conspiracy, just a fact a 4-year old can understand.

Now that I have sufficiently explained why companies do what they do, let me explain why you are wrong. Historically, ALL consoles have a lull after the holidays then in about 8-10 months they start to pick up a little steam heading into the next holiday season in which game releases are more plentiful and developers start to catch up with the hardware a bit.

Investors in video game companies that actually make money understand this. For some reason you don’t. Smart investors and smart DEVELOPERS understand that now is the time to strike on the Wii U. The Wii U has the largest install base of any 8th gen system, has the largest library of games of any 8th gen system, and has the largest demographics of any 8th gen system.

Depending on how well Sony and Microsoft advertise there product that could change. Sony is already using tie-ins with Taco Bell for the PS4. They have a lot of assets they can use to promote their product in terms of TV shows and movies produced by Columbia/TriStar, music, and other branches of the company. If they are smart they will use them. There should be PS4 trailers going before every Columbia/TriStar motion picture.

Microsoft has Windows. Nuff said. They can touch billions of people with advertisements.

You would think that Nintendo wouldn’t stand a chance being that they somehow forgot how to advertise or don’t feel they need to anymore, which is a mistake. However the only publicity the 3DS has had publicly has been NEGATIVE. Yet, it is the top-selling console worldwide, the fastest-selling console worldwide, and on pace to outsell the DS which is the best-selling console of all time. All this without 3rd party support, without decent online, and with sufficient advertisement. Hmm…….why does that sound familiar?

*cough* Wii U *cough-cough*

You know why the 3DS is a monster right now? It’s because of the the games…………………and that is why anyone with a brain being a developer or an investor are putting their chips on the Wii U right now. That my friend, is true “Business 101.” There is no fee for this class. The tab is on me. Class dismissed.

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what you dont seem to realize is the wii u version is still missing some dlc two whole characters in fact, and they released a patch for every version other than the wii u. A patch which changes the whole game i can no longer play competitively with anyone on another system other than the wii u