ultra SF4 on wii-u?

[malcrash01]

its sorta a no-brainer by now. this game is now going to be 5 years old and with its upgrade incoming, how come this hasn't come out on wii-u yet? i would assume there would be benefits for it when it comes out early next year. hoping to hear what they would say...

[bloodyrave]

Third parties don't have alot of faith in the Wii-U right now, so they won't invest the time and the resources if they don't think they'll be much of an audience for it.

[Sonic63587]

Because no one cares about WiiU except Nintendo. Ever since the Gamecube you get the Nintendo system for the Nintendo games, that's it.

[᠌ ᠌anuky]

Ultra is merely an update to an existing game, it's not a brand new game/installment in the franchise. It's better to target consoles where there's a solid player base for the game (ps3/xbox/pc) than spend money porting it to consoles that don't have a market for it.

To put it in perspective, SF4 sold 3 million units, SSF4 pushed 1 million units, Arcade Edition didn't even sell 500k units. If every new iteration, when compared to it's predecessor, can't manage to break half in sales when sold on existing consoles, why put effort and money into porting it to a new console that had no prior player base?

[Scrub]

The Wii U is still (architecturally) very similar to the Wii, so because it never made it to the Wii, even though USF4 is just an update, this is still a very major porting operation.

I would not expect to see it, doubly-so because it's Capcom. While they make good fighting game engines, they don't really do so well on the actual production/support of their games.

[ciry]

propably not, are there even any arcade sticks for wiiU?

[Saikyo Artist]

I do not think there are any sticks specifically made for the WiiU, but there are a few decent sticks for Wii. Since the WiiU is backwards-compatable with the Wii's controllers, it would be a safe assumption that the sticks would also work on WiiU. As to whether or not USF4 will eventually make it to the WiiU, I would say probably not. As of right now, Namco isn't even bringing their Soul Calibur 2 remaster to WiiU, and the Gamecube version of the original was hands-down the best selling version. If Namco changes their mind, and if Soul Calibur actually does sell really well on WiiU, we might see other fighting games appear on the system.

[offline]

It is simply not going to come to Wii U, It would come to PS4 / Xbox One first and I highly doubt it'll come to those either.