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Activision - If you want Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Wii, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Wii
August 20, 2009 by The News Team
Filed Under: Wii
This is a really sucky situation, and it will most likely end up costing Wii owners their chance at Modern Warfare 2. Activision has said that if sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Wii are high enough, then they'll consider doing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Wii. In other words, if you aren't included in the millions upon millions of people that have already played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on 360 or PS3, you'll have to buy the Wii version if you want any hope at the sequel showing up. I'm guessing we'd get that one right when Modern Warfare 3 was hitting...
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"Buy this outdated lazy port and if enough people do we'll give you another outdated lazy one later."
No thanks. At least companies like Capcom have dropped the stupid 'test' mentality.
This sounds alot like the promise Capcom had about Umbrella Chronicles sales and we saw the results.
Also here's my answer: FU activision, we're not second class or anything to be treated this way.
I say screw you with your ugly as sin graphics and your port of a 2 year old game, I have conduit
I want my Ground War(32 player) Damn it!
This is further proof that 3rd parties treat us like second class citizens, and why things will never get better at this rate. I'm sorry Activision, but the last developer who said this ended up backing out of their deal (Capcom with a real Resident Evil game if we bought UC. They went, and green lighted a sequel instead of a real RE game).
I'll enjoy pirating MW2 on my new gaming PC as my way to say screw you!
So... because we bought the other CoDs, we got a 2 year old port of MW. If we buy this s*** port, we`ll get another late crappy port down the road!
I hope that covers everything, Activision-Blizzard.
My thoughts exactly.
If you want anyone to buy your two year old down-port of a video game that's sequel is being released on the day it comes out, make it not suck so bad and "put a little effort into it".
Thanks.
awesome, I approve of this picture
it has been a pretty crappy week for Wii during Gamescom and this just makes things worse
At the moment now the game is not even worth a rent.
"What's the big deal? Doesn't that kind of make sense?"
No, because they have proof of Call of Duty selling on the Wii. WaW sold over a million copies, and it was a pretty mediocre and stripped down port. This is just them justifying their laziness or lack of care when working on the Wii.
yeah that works.
anyway, why would a buy a half-assed game when i could buy the new hidden gem, Cursed Mountain (yes i got it today, if you don't believe me check the Gamespot forums for proof)
Puppetpal
Im buying cursed mountain as well but im also buying modern warfare. MW doesnt come out until november.
Chosenoneknuckles
they said that about modern warfare 1. Same old rehashed argument.
@Puppetpal
Cursed Mountain came out in the US already [I assume]? That was a quiet release if so.
How is it?
finally someone i can agree with
"I watched Microsoft's E3 Conference, there's no way CoD: MW2 would work at all well on the Wii..."
I disagree, but it would require them to actually put forth effort into a Wii game, and that is something most 3rd parties will not do.
Perfectly put.
Another example of people looking at the port markers and saying they care.
Hey, Acti-Bliz. If you want me to buy your games, kiss my ass.
This is worse than what Capcom did. At least Capcom promised us an entirely new game. King Kotick and crew are just promising us another port if we buy a port.
Kotick, I'll be buying Modern Warfare 2 online and used so you can kiss your share of the profits goodbye.
EDIT: Also, the instant I saw the title, I knew this reaction would occur. >_>
its for the wii only owners not you couldn't you tell?
Make a quality, from the ground up, triple A Wii title and I'll buy it, but don't try to make me buy a turd with the false promise that we could get another shoddy port if we do! I want some real f*cling games!
I'm so sick of the Wii (which has the largest install base) getting treated like it's an after thought. Make good games and nuture the Wii audience and it has the potential to out buy the other 2 console's audiences. Keep putting out crap and you won't ever have the chance.
Doesn't matter anyway since I'm getting Modern Warfare 2 on 360.
I'm very happy that this is happening though. I love shooting with wiimote, and Conduits underpowered weapons in online mode left me thirsty for more. 10 players would have been enough for nice team matches(and I would have had at least ten FPS-kind of friends who have Wii).
No online chatting and no features cut from HD-ready consoles? Whats that then? I think I'm useing Skype, if I manage to lure people touching this. Perhaps I could try to approach my expanded audience-kind of Wii friends. Come on Activision, push it a little! This might be your last chance on a Wii. These games really would be fun on the Wii! I (might) even prefer Wiimote over mouse and I'm never again going to downgrade into gamepads anymore. Please somebody make a undisputed Wii-FPS-masterpeace! Its a territory where Wiimote makes difference even without motion+! And make grenades work like how they work in Conduit!
I'm done playing their game. Any multiplatform game that comes out I just get for my 360 now. The Wii can only get a good port at most. They will never get a great port because they will never have a fraction of the same amount of money thrown into the project, which means they will never get the same amount of effort. The Wii gets no respect and it deserves better than that.
It's mind boggling when you think that the Wii install base is practically the size of the PS3 and 360 combined, it costs less to develop a game, it costs less for consumers to buy a game, and with all those favorable ingredients together publishers are still far more scared to make a game that may bomb on the Wii than a huge budget game that bombs on two consoles.
"if you aren't included in the millions upon millions of people that have already played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on 360 or PS3, you'll have to buy the Wii version if you want any hope at the sequel showing up."
Those people who have already played it on 360/PS3 don't even care about how it sells on the Wii since they'll be playing MW2 on the 360/PS3. So of course they won't be buying it.
Besides, we are talking about 2 different audiences here, so I think we should be glad MW is coming to the Wii. Pretty much if you have a Wii and another current gen cosole, you'll probably go with the latter to play MW2 on.
This laziness inspired me to NOT buy MW2 for my PC.
Probably. Like two years later lol
@MSU_CokeBoi
Those people who have already played it on 360/PS3 don't even care about how it sells on the Wii since they'll be playing MW2 on the 360/PS3. So of course they won't be buying it.
I think you are completely right about this. Don't exclude the PC version though! PC still counts!
you sir are a fool MW2 is an awesome game don't let what someone said effect that.
Anyway i find it funny how you guys say this is a crappy port when all you have seen are pre-beta screens oh and no wii speak doesn't make it crappy at all there will be new content to so..what the hell is wrong?
Pretty much.
i hope the graphics would be so horrible that i'm just unable to buy it , the conduit got me hooked on online play with pointer so i might crack
The Wii audience will not be blackmailed just so as we can eventually, perhaps maybe be treated like regular customers should. Activision already have 2 very successful COD games on the system so f**k you.
I got bored of COD long ago, and I think we have enough on-rail shooter on the platform anyway.
NO ONE IS BLACKMAILING ANYONE. this i just how sequals work if you don't make money on the first a sequal is highly unlikely most of the time. :/
You actually showed up to this post? ROFL!!!!!!! I told you this would happen and you called me ridiculous. You came in here after people that i have never seen in here before started bashing it. You can joke all you want about the 2 year deal but next year treyarch has the reins with the rumoured COD Vietnam and we all know its going to be for wii.( treyarch makes every game they make for wii) So actually Wii owners will get a BRAND NEW COD next year. Just not modern warfare. But waiting the 2 years doesnt matter because ill have a new one to play next year. It seems like you feel like your superior because you have two systems. Believe me bub i could have all of them if i wanted to. So stop treating loyalist like they are second class citizens because they dont have 2 systems. Your not cool man.
@keyz
Yeah Treyarch is making the next one so we should be getting next year's new CoD. I'm hoping for a Vietnam setting as well.
I remember hearing that the Wii version of Modern Warfare was handled by only 36 people. Anyone know how many people worked on World at War for Wii?
forgive me, i have a mac...not used to playing games on these things
The guys in charge of PR Media distribution are idiots.
What are you talking about?
COD4 has already been on the shelves for years, everyone who wanted to play it has played it, who is going to buy this?
The Wii audience already made 2 COD games a success so there shouldn't be any more tests to endure. Don't pretend that COD suddenly has some deep story because there really is no reason they can't skip the first MW and go directly to the sequel that other platforms are getting.
We would be happy...if it didn't look like complete crap at the moment. It looks like something on the PS2, the (core) online experience has taken a hit for no reason and it still remains an old game. The fact that only 30 odd people are working on a COD game should tell you they don't care.
I enjoyed The Conduit plenty, but is more than one FPS with real effort too much to ask for? No, it is in fact completely expected.
As far as the Wii goes, I don't know what it's fate will be. It's going to take a long time for the PS3 and the 360 to catch up even if the Wii sales slowed to a crawl, which they probably won't because the Wii demographic is such a large range of ages compared to the others. Who knows how the Vitality Sensor will do or what else Nintendo has up their sleeve? Companies want a piece of the pie so some publishers will keep trying while others will move on.
This generation is far from over though. I don't see any company trying to release a new console any time soon although the first would be Nintendo but no sooner than 2012.
But they already made a lot of money on the sequel to Modern Warfare, World at War. There's no reason to continue defending their asinine choice, they are lying to us Wii owners to try to sell us this game, knowing full well it's an extremely bad port (the screens and info proves this) and it wouldn't sell by itself.
Quite frankly, if they are going to treat us like this, to hell with the sequel, it's not like they would try harder anyway. And don't kid yourself, why put effort into Modern Warfare 2 for the Wii if the first one sold so well despite being a turd? Buying this game will only send the message that you enjoy being used as a cheap prostitute.
also 30 people on a cod game is low, but the game is already made. its just a port job. 30 people on a port job sounds pretty decent for me.
Everyone has already sai pretty much what i was thinking about this annoucement
Man, think i'll be pirating MW2 for PC. If Activision is giving us wii gamers the shaft, we should also give them shaft and have them reitre from the Wii ground. If they don't care about us, we shouldn't either do so. Don't buy this, better yet, never ever buy another Activision game for Nintendo platform, lets show them how they need to grab ¿the golden bone with nintendo fanboys
well its not like all the money is going into wii development all the time and by the way we have barely seen this port god its as if you guys know so dam much about a game that has no footage released at the moment and only early in development screens out
So first, we hear about Modern Warfare coming out for Wii. Everyone gets super hyped, saying that it'll beat out The Conduit and be an amazing game that is not going to be a half-assed port. I say that it is going to be a half-assed port.
This week comes along, and we get our first screens. Ugly. Horrible. Horrific. Far Cry: Vengeance all over again. Score one for me.
Now, this statement comes from Activision that proves that they use the Wii as a garbage dump for table scraps. Woot.
I love being right.
:0 sadly your not right you cant base the quality of a whole game on screens you don't even know how old they are and you haven't even seen footage of this game so just shut up I'm sick of having to repeat it so many times here so i might stop I have to much time on the computer these days *sigh*
Edit:proof that the gamescon build was beta
My brain just exploded from reading that run-on.
And I do know how old they are: brand new.
And I think you can tell how good a game looks, even without seeing it in motion. Look at SMG. The graphics were amazing, both still and in motion.
The game is only a few months from releasing, and since those screens weren't retracted yet it most likely means they're an accurate depiction of the game so far into development. I'm sorry, but everything about the game screams laziness and cheapness. What incentive do they have to try harder on the next game, if they see success with this half-ass port?
I apologize if I seamed a bit harsh, but constantly being mistreated like this by 3rd parties will cause you to have a pessimistic viewpoint on 3rd party software, especially when they give you every reason to. I do hope you enjoy your purchase, but I will be avoiding this one and from the looks of it so will most others.
Hey Activision- if you want money why don't you, what's the word- treat your customers better and actually just make a game that isn't second rate on the Wii?
Ya know what- why don't you just make a Modern Warfare from the ground up for the Wii and make it a spin-off? I'd be fine with that. Better to get a good original game than a 2 year old port everyone and their mom has already played.
D:
I feel bad for the Wii - only crowd.
They get a port - - one that will probably be nowhere near as good as the PS3/360 version - - an entire two years later.
True..
First it was bithching about not getting CoD4 Wii when it launched..
Then the game finally hits the Wii and it's more b**** because it is two years later (like it would be best not to get the game at all)..
And finally a details list shows that the Wii version might have even more content than the HD ones and it's more b**** because of graphics
This is hilarious.. yeah, don't buy it if you feel hurt, we'll se if Treyarch will have it in them to make MW2 for Wii after this one flops.
As for MWII, it will come to the Wii no matter what.
I'll pass on either. Good day, Activision, I say good day.
Honestly think about why you're pissed.
Obviously if MW did bad on Wii they wouldn't make MW2...
What they're doing makes sense...
Making a sequel to a game that sells well makes sense. Companies do it all the time.
Teasing a sequel before the game even comes out as a ploy to sell more copies is just pathetic and doesn't show much confidence in the game they're selling.
If you think they are just saying this to educate people on the reasons a sequel gets made, you are a fool.
How's Cursed Mountain dude?
BTW, F*** you Activision. I'll add you to the list of assh*le developers that I'll pirate with no guilt.
It makes no sense. WaW sold over a million, and now they're making out that THiS is a test to see if there's an audience. We already know there is!!
lol they're just going in order what do you expect?
How many copies of that half assed version of COD5 sold again on the Wii?
Yeah I know but still this is practically implied.
They are cutting stuff too, including the number of players online. The images alone shows just how poorly done this port is, and just further evidence that they might as well not even try.
One of guy here posted bad word poster.. GROW UP!
Well over a million
F*** OFF!
Ok.. If having one less player on your team is a deal breaker for you, I fully understand. But don't come with the graphics argument like in the Wii graphics trully matter.
What happened to: "the Wii is about user interaction and gameplay, not graphics"??
You even said yourself:"WaW sold over a million copies, and it was a pretty mediocre and stripped down port."
So.. this is a port with allegedly even more content than WaW and you expect it to look better?
All this is is people b**** about graphics... on the Wii... and especially when talking about ports. You want better looking games or the original versions? get an HD console.
This whole "You guys wanted Modern Warfare you're getting it god you're so wishy washy".
If you really can't see how getting it TWO YEARS LATER, on the SAME DAY THE SEQUEL IS RELEASED, when even the DS got a damn port two years ago (and is getting a new game alongside the sequel), and it looks like serious s*** despite them having two years, you're being nothing but dense. Or being obtuse just because you have a Shambling Corporate Presence fetish and must defend their honor at all costs.
Activision can go f*** themselves, not that they aren't doing that already.
We could have both you know? Wii has plenty of horsepower, certainly better than this, but 30 people on a team? A lousy, cheap port of a Treyarch(I don't mind it, but it had a pretty bad reputation)game, while WW was last season and MW was cool and in, sold a million. I guess it already prowed Wii want FPS. It makes people mad that they still, after 3 years, hurry these bad quality test games on a small teams.
I wasn't talking about sales. I was talking about story. It makes more sense to come out with 'Story part 1' before 'Story part 2' on a specific platform, don't you think?
Theoretically, yes. But not many people play Call of Duty for the story. They play it for the action. So I think most people would prefer if the new one was gonna be released.
Plus if you do buy it how do not know if MW2 is not just going to be another lazy port???
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