Today, Nintendo has announced that they will be showcasing their upcoming new console, the Wii U, at this year’s PAX Prime event. The event takes places on August 31 through September 2 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Various Wii U software will be on display for attendees to check out in order to get a glimpse of what Nintendo’s next-gen console will be about (more…)
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WiiU to get Black Ops 2?
It seems that we may be getting a WiiU version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. According to the Linkedln page of a tester for Treyarch named Randall, QA testing for Black Ops II has been in the works since May. His responsibilities included:
“QA testing on PS3 and Wii U, multiplayer testing while collaborating with team, ad hoc testing, and regression. Bug writing, research, and documentation are performed with each issue that is found.”
This is not the first time we have heard rumors of Black Ops 2 releasing on Nintendo’s next generation console due to magazine scans and comments suggesting this. Also, there is more evidence implying this because video game analyst Michael Pachter recently predicted that Nintendo developed its WiiU Pro Controller specifically to convince Activision to make a Wii U version of Call of Duty.
Activision has made no comment yet so stay tuned for more information regarding this matter.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 releases on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC on November 13, 2012, with a WiiU version predicted to come out sometime during the console’s launch window.
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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.