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Wii U Pro Controller designed to secure Call of Duty
Activision said they wanted a conventional controller or else their titles would not appear on Wii U.
Nintendo only created the Wii U Pro Controller because of pressure from Activision, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter told an audience at Develop last week (via Edge).
“I don’t get it,” he said. “I think that essentially this is a solution in search of a problem. I mean, somebody had an idea – ‘let’s make the controller a tablet’ – and there aren’t many games that are going to take advantage of that.
“Activision never said anything to me, but I know that [for] big games like Call Of Duty they said, ‘No, we’re not putting it on there if you don’t give us a conventional controller’. So they gave in.”
Given the popularity of Call of Duty and the franchise’s relative non-existence on the Wii, Nintendo clearly wants to avoid missing out once again.
However, Pachter doesn’t think Nintendo can repeat the success of the Wii with its follow-up.
“[Wii] worked, they got lucky, [but] I don’t think they’re getting lucky with Wii U,” he claimed.
“I don’t think they suck – I just think that they really believe that, ‘If we’re still novel, everything we do will work’. This isn’t going to work.”
via Wii U Pro Controller designed to secure Call of Duty – VideoGamer.com.
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Halo 4 could overthrow Call of Duty as most active Xbox Live Game
Neither Halo 4 nor Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are out yet, but the latest 2012 anticipation levels among Xbox 360 gamers could indicate a shift in the Xbox LIVE activity leaderboard.
According to the latest Nielsen Game Rank, Halo 4 is the most highly-anticipated Xbox 360 title, beating out Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, and Madden NFL 13.
Nielsen arrived at this ranking by “leveraging several key consumer metrics, including Awareness and Purchase Interest, into one overall score. That score was then compared to scores from all previous games released on the same platform at the same point in their release cycles, to determine the percentile ranking of the upcoming title.”
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. We’ve got two titles: one an Xbox 360 exclusive, the other a title that many consider to be the core Xbox 360 experience. Despite Halo 4 being an exclusive to Xbox 360, Call of Duty has consistently outperformed all other titles on a year-in, year-out basis. The only other game to even come close on Xbox LIVE has been Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.
So let’s look at both titles and see why Halo 4 will likely become the most popular game on Xbox 360. Halo 4 has a lot of hype surrounding it. We are seeing the return of Master Chief, after a five year hiatus, all-new game modes that will amp up the multiplayer component, and a single-player campaign that looks incredible. Let’s not forget an additional 50 missions totaling 12 hours of gameplay offered for free as part of Halo 4’s Spartan Ops co-op side campaign
Meanwhile, Black Ops 2 is coming off a year in which the Call of Duty franchise, despite Modern Warfare 3 breaking sales records, has received a lot of flack. A lot of fans were turned off by this year’s installment citing repetitive gameplay, bland graphics, and a poor multiplayer experience filled with glitches and bugs. Could we be seeing the fall of a great empire that was once Call of Duty?
None of this means Black Ops 2 will be a flop. In all likelihood, it will still sell incredibly well. And I have to say, I like what Treyarch is doing with this year’s installment. But with the long-awaited return of Master Chief in Halo 4, I could easily see Halo 4 replacing Call of Duty as the most popular Xbox LIVE game.
It won’t be easy though. Even today Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops, which released back in 2010, remain two of the three top performers in Xbox LIVE activity. Halo 4 definitely has its work cut out for it.
As for the rest of Nielson’s most anticipated Xbox 360 titles for 2012 click here.
**Consumer data was derived from online interviews of 4,823 male and female active gamers (those who own at least one current generation console and actively play on and purchase games for that console), between the ages of 7 to 54. The timeframe for the data collection was June 3 to June 30.
Will you be picking up Halo 4 or Black Ops 2 this year?
via Halo 4 could overthrow Call of Duty as most active Xbox L… | Halo 4 News | GameZone.
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Most Anticipated Games for the rest of 2012 – Xbox, PS3, Wii
Black Ops 2 is the most anticipated release on the PS3 and second on the Xbox
Based upon 4700+ active gamers aged 7-54, male and female from Nielson.
2012 Title for Xbox 360 Release Date Game Rank Halo 4 11/6/2012 99% Call of Duty: Black Ops II 11/13/2012 97% Assassin’s Creed III 10/30/2012 94% Madden NFL 13 8/28/2012 94% Resident Evil 6 10/2/2012 93% Borderlands 2 9/18/2012 88% NCAA Football 13 7/10/2012 83% NBA 2K13 10/2/2012 82% FIFA Soccer 13 9/25/2012 79% Fable: The Journey 10/9/2012 77% Darksiders II 8/14/2012 76% Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) 10/30/2012 74% Far Cry 3 12/4/2012 74% Medal of Honor: Warfighter 10/23/2012 74% NHL 13 9/11/2012 69% 2012 Title for PS3 Release Date Game Rank Call of Duty: Black Ops II 11/13/2012 99% Madden NFL 13 8/28/2012 97% Assassin’s Creed III 10/30/2012 97% Resident Evil 6 10/2/2012 96% NCAA Football 13 7/10/2012 93% Borderlands 2 9/18/2012 88% NBA 2K13 10/2/2012 85% Darksiders II 8/14/2012 81% NHL 13 9/11/2012 80% FIFA Soccer 13 9/25/2012 79% Far Cry 3 12/4/2012 79% Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) 10/30/2012 78% Hitman: Absolution 11/20/2012 77% Transformers: Fall of Cybertron 8/28/2012 77% WWE ‘13 11/1/2012 75% 2012 Title for Wii Release Date Game Rank Just Dance 4 10/9/2012 97% Madden NFL 13 8/28/2012 94% Just Dance: Disney Party 10/23/2012 94% Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two 11/20/2012 86% Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure 9/18/2012 79% WWE ‘13 11/1/2012 74% Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) 10/30/2012 71% NBA 2K13 10/2/2012 69% FIFA Soccer 13 9/25/2012 64% The Last Story 7/31/2012 63% Everyone Sing 9/4/2012 61% Ice Age: Continental Drift: Arctic Games 7/10/2012 37% Skylanders Giants 10/1/2012 33% Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 9/25/2012 11% Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game 11/20/2012 7% -
Vivendi Struggling To Sell Activision Blizzard
Vivendi, according to Bloomberg, is not finding much success in selling its $8.27 billion majority stake in Activision Blizzard Inc.
Microsoft, Take-Two, and Disney have been courted but none of them are pursuing bids. Other media companies like Vivendi also see Activision Blizzard as much of a “non-core asset” as they do.
While taking control of the Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo III would be an incredible power play by Microsoft, they would have to consider the loss of CoD sales to Nintendo and Sony. Of course, that would convince many Sony and Nintendo users to purchase an Xbox console, giving Microsoft a leg up in the next generation.
A part of the trouble is that Vivendi is looking for a cash sale, which has stifled potential deals with China’s Tencent and Japan’s Nexon. The last cast scenario for Vivendi would be to sell its shares openly on the market, in an effort to lessen its €12.5 billion debt by March.
