Why Borderlands skipped Wii U

Either this Rndy Pitchford is lying like chit, or the way he decides on what console to bring a game to is insane. 

The decision on game porting should always be this formula, is development, resources, cost less then potential profit, future good will. 

The correct way he should have answered, was "while we here at Gearbox are excited and interested at all the Wii U brings to the table, we are too far into development of amazing new IP's and continued content development for existing games and just simply do not have a workable timetable to accomplish all that we would like." In other words lie like a politician would. 

If they at Gearbox actually do make decisions on how they port games on the ramblings above, i feel sorry for them. 

Translation, we're waiting to see what the install base will be. If the Wii U sell ass tons then we will make a port.

I've always wondered if Sony/Microsoft were bullying devs.

Dumb excuse.

What horrible reasoning. I don't see anyone saying that Borderlands 2 for either the Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3 saying "Oh-my-god-I-want-to-play-this-on-PS3/XBOX360 because it's obviously naturally taking advantage or this specific system's capabilities". Just give us the real reason instead of complete and utter **** please.

I think gearbox should just make a little spin off game for the wiiu. Like clap traps awesome taticular platforms of firey skag death.

How about thousands more customers to buy your game? That seems like a "natural, obvious" feature that Wii U could bring to Borderlands.

Wait until XBOX 720 or PS4 comes out. Wii U will just be another gamecube

bleh

Not to mention the devs want to see whether there is even a significant market for FPS on the Wii U.

Give some time for developers to adapt to Wii U. Then, we'll see what Wii U is capable of.

Having local co-op with one player on the TV and one on the gamepad would be awesome. 

Borderlands is such a good game and from what I can think of there isn't really anything extra the WiiU can add.

In all honest truth, there is one big problem with Wii U. It is from Nintendo.

They treat 3rd parties really bad, or perhaps should I say they are very Metroid, Mario, party, Pokemon, etc... focused (which is fine if this is the business they want).

Nintendo is not really attractive for other companies to work with, thats not to say the Wii U doesn't have certain advantages, but Nintendo could surely benefit from a stronger partners programs and incentive.

Me personnally? I rather wait until all 3 consoles are released and then make a decent decision on which one will be good for my playing style. I am very happy with current gen tecnology at this time, I can wait 1 more year, heck make that 2 years. But I am usually impressed with better detail and realism on graphics, thats my forecast.

Because they want to develop on real consoles for people who actully play games consistantly, not for a family get together in nintendo land.

No point in porting it if you can't make it better.

Pitchford: "The Wii U is perfect for FPS games!" http://www.gamespot.com/news/pitchford-wii-u-gamepad-is-best-nintendo-hardcore-controller-ever-6399261

Gamer: "OMG can you bring Borderla-"

Pitchford: "Dont- not that perf- here take this." *hands you Aliens: CM*

The tech race will eventually catch up with Nintendo.  We will see Mario for Xbox in our lifetime.  

Gearbox: "You won't get Borderlands 2, but you can have this."

Nintendo: "Oh, Aliens: Colonial Marines....thanks..."

A quick interface for telling jerk face randoms to go **** themselves perhaps?

I think once the wiiU has more games built for it as opposed to ports then that will be the true mark for the wiiu. Games like ZombiU which got terrible scores is actually really good, the controller makes the game a lot scarier and intense than what it would be with a normal controller. However i bought NBA2k13 for the wiiU and it is garbage compared to the other versions pretty much unplayable. I own all three consoles and a gaming pc i am not biased they all have their pros and cons. I think the wiiu will be fine.

So whats up with the new console wth full hd 1920x1080p, physics processor, multiple controler capability, multiple display capability (3 or more), 8xAA, 16xAF, tessalation, great internet navigation, netflix, full dvd, bluray support, itunes, multi compatibility with old nintendo, atari, etc, console and arcade games, ps1 and ps2 games, and of course, that custom case?

The main reason is that game has been out for some time and people who wanted to play it has already bought it. making a game for a totally new game console requires man hours and costs huge chunks of money which should rather be used for developing new games for new console.

Even if they make it for WIIU, I am wondering how many people will buy it. IMO not enough to justify the development cost. From business standpoint that is a perfect decision and I dont blame them. 

Regarding WIIU, I dont, think it has failed or anything but I also wont call it a next gen. I love to play Zelda & Mario but I am sorry that alone wont entice me to shell so much money on a new console when I already have PS3 and PC. Had to sell my WII because I hardly played games on it.