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BLOPS 2 multiplayer: only 560 people on WiiU, 640,000 on 360.
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RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Not when the console has only been out for 2 days.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
What about total players on the leaderboard?
You can't judge if its a success now, cmon seriously...
My only concern is for people who don't have the brains to understand install bases and demographics. Again, you're comparing a system that's been out for 2 days to systems that have been out for 6 to 7 years. No shit those systems will have bigger communities.
It's also laughable since Wii U hasn't even launched in other territories like Europe.
The whole thing is silly.
Haunted
Member
If you imagine how many players are taken away by Halo 4 on the 360 it makes a bit more sense.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
On the other hand the console is sold out everywhere and CoD is a massive franchise. I don't think many people would have expected numbers thus low. Certainly not 360 numbers, but 560?
I honestly would just not compare it to the other numbers at all. Its not going to have the install base the other consoles have nor will it be able to steal away the people already playing on another console.
I'm sure Activision is/will be making a profit off the game and that's all they care about.
Completely anecdotal, but I do know a few people who jumped from playing online multi games on 360 to PS3. The cost of an XBL Gold membership is a big turn-off.
KillerTravis
Banned
Lol not even 2 days and already nintendoomed? Give it a week at least to sound a little more convincing.
Lmao not when the console was released just shy of over 48 hours ago.
2 days.
Aaron Strife
Banned
The majority of people who would want to play COD specifically probably have a PS3 or 360 already.
If you're buying a Wii U today it's for Mario or ZombiU or something.
Freezie KO
Banned
I would say Activision has access to these things called "sales figures" which are more relevant than a snapshot of how many people are online a day and a half after the console comes out.
Haunted
Member
shira
Member
Seems about right to me.
Why would a wiiU owner pick up COD??
Either a family or refined gamer(too refined for online multiplayer to get owned by 12 year olds)
Why would a COD player pick up a wiiU???
Already on 360.
Same reason Wii owners bought CoD?
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Halo 4
HarryDemeanor
Member
Are you telling me that a new console that just came out two days ago has way less people playing a multiplayer game than the 360 and PS3?
Truly this is a cause for concern.
Truly this is a cause for concern.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Oh lawd
Microsoft has minimum payments, for the record
Worldwide, the PS3 is right behind the 360 in sales.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
That tweet from Black Ops was at 5:40PM PST. Halo 4 has broken the record of most concurrent players on any Halo game ever. In the afternoons it circles around 400k easily, there are about 10 MP playlists and they average at 30k and that isn't counting single players or Spartan Ops.
Im getting it on wiiu despite owning it on 360 too.
Haunted
Member
Looking at the Steam numbers, MW2 is above Blops and MW3 right now.
It's sorta shitty how defensive people got. This isn't really about Nintendo as much it's about how Activision might just say fuck it to ever letting it's developers put any effort into ports or original projects for the Wii-U.
But these really numbers could be result to the low amount of stock for the launch, having those numbers would shed better light on how relative these CoD Wii-U numbers are.
Not only that but didn't Black Ops have 1 million at peak?
Well Wii U numbers are just US as the Wii U has only been released in the US...
As well it should be.
I'm hoping this is a Vita joke.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Is the Wii released anywhere else?
Yup, there's usually around 400k or so playing Halo 4.
shira
Member
Activision ports to everything they can.
It's a new console out for a couple of days after the initial sales push of the game that had like 3 months heads up that the version actually existed. The population it has sounds about right.
The real judge is when the next CoD comes out, has been advertised for all consoles properly including Wii U, and the Wii U version comes out day and date with the other versions.
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
I remember the xmas after MW2's PC release, around 200,000 people online at the same time, never seen any other COD afterwards reach those figures on PC.
I'm fairly aware when the WiiU will be released elsewhere,
I'm asking for the other versions.
MrCookiepants
Member
Those PC numbers are dire. Why do publishers even bother.
Visualante2
Member
Because the 360 is so similar, it's barely an effort to do the PC version. They successfully brought the map pack and full price model over to PC also.