Batman: Arkham Origins

[Tanassy]

Multiplayer?
if you're getting the game on Wii U, don't get your hopes up, because Wii U isn't getting it.

[Hakudamashi]

Multiplayer?
if you're getting the game on Wii U, don't get your hopes up, because Wii U isn't getting it.

Um... why?

[Tanassy]

Because there isn't a big enough online install base, apparently.

[Hakudamashi]

Because there isn't a big enough online install base, apparently.

Gee, rip away a feature from a console that isn't that well liked by the public in the first place.

I swear, if they complain about the Wii U port not selling...

[shadowDOESrock]

So, as you might expect, Nintendo fans are likely disappointed to learn that Arkham Origins' multiplayer is skipping the Wii U. Nintendo's console could really use a boost, especially in terms of its multiplayer offerings, and Arkham Origins could have been it.

In fact, as it turns out, that lack of a multiplayer fan base was the main reason Warner Bros.' decided not to include multiplayer on the Wii U version of Arkham Origins. They decided that it was best to focus on "platforms with a sizable multiplayer audience."

Unfortunately, by leaving out multiplayer in Arkham Origins, Warner Bros. is ostensibly dooming the Wii U version to fail. We've seen this before, and we'll probably see it again: publishers avoid the Wii U because it doesn't have a large install base, and the Wii U doesn't have a large install base because there aren't many games available for the console. At least the crème de la crème of multiplayer titles – Call of Duty: Ghosts – is still coming to the Wii U with multiplayer in tact.

[Hakudamashi]

Congratulations, the 8th gen just started, and already 2 games have been boycotted on principle...

Have we learnt nothing?

[shadowDOESrock]

Have we learnt nothing?

You*

Everyone else is fine and dandy.

[Hakudamashi]

I'm fine and dandy, I was gonna get the PS4 ver. for the Adam West Batman skin.

[shadowDOESrock]

I'm fine and dandy, I was gonna get the PS4 ver. for the Adam West Batman skin.

wat
There's a PS4 version witt that?

[Hakudamashi]

wat
There's a PS4 version witt that?

Typo, meant PS3, sorry.

But not anymore.

[shadowDOESrock]

lol


I always laugh when I see people "boycotting" games.

[Hakudamashi]

K, laugh away. I'm still not buying it.

[shadowDOESrock]

I too completely skip games I wanted to buy before simply because a Mode is missing on a platform no one would use it anyway (and wouldnt buy that version in the first place) - meanwhile complaining about game budgets but "boycotting" games when they cut costs there where its best - but fuck that, they should pay thousands of dollars every month to keep the servers up for all the zero people playing and added cost for porting - for a mode that no would use in the first place - in a game where the multiplayer isnt even an important focus or a big part.


Genious.

[Hakudamashi]

Or, y'know, not make a Wii U version.

Or not make a multiplayer in the first place

Or cut the price of the Wii U ver.

[shadowDOESrock]

Or, y'know, not make a Wii U version.

Or not make a multiplayer in the first place

Or cut the price of the Wii U ver.

The only one of those three that makes sense is the last one.
The other two make absolutely no sense.