Why Borderlands skipped Wii U

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.

There is no point in making Borderlands for a Wii U. Its been perfected on the xbox 360 and Ps3.. We don't need To add any extra "cool for 10 minutes" Features.

glad to hear it. I'm glad it won't be getting another great game. Even less reasons to waste money.

The funny thing about this is that they call Wii U as a next gen console. Wii U does the same shit as PS3, how can it be next gen? Nintendo failed hard.

wii was a unique console, but now wiiu just another ps3 n xbox360

l'm tired of playing same old games on the xbox 360 that l have already played, no need to do a sequels for years as its the same thing over and over again. atleast wii u is trying something different with their controller :)

wii u is next generation :)

WiiscrewedU again?

First....most of the people that wanted Borderlands already got it elsewhere...

Second...the best idea I saw in the comments was to have menus and stats in the gamepad....which is not groundbreaking at all (if you think about guns the comparision can already be done on screen, why have it in two screens?)

Sadly for Wii U owners, man got a point...

wiiU is a next gen console , giving it some lame last gen ports would be disrespectful

Mouse & keyboard is the only way to play FPS. Button mashing &/or waving a controller around like its a plague rat in its death throes, no thanks.

@emptycow @wcwj26 LOL The 360 is the lowest in graphical capabilities between PC, Wii-U, PS3, and 360. CoD games also aren't that great looking and shouldn't be graphical benchmarks to compare with. Most console games are even run around 540p and upscaled to 720p. The Wii-U isn't killing it with hardware over the others but it still beats the 360. Give it some time when someone makes a game focused on the Wii-U and can really use it. Games on the PS3 at launch looked worse than 360 with almost every game despite better hardware. Then people cared and invested time to make games look better and we get games like Heavy Rain or Uncharted 3 and no 360 games even come close.

Comparing the Wii-U to the next consoles from Sony and Microsoft should be pretty simple. It would be sad for them to release something that doesn't beat out the Wii-U when the systems are still at least two years out with how little news there is on them.

While I don't like playing first person games without a mouse and keyboard. It would be cool to be able to have the menu stuff on the tablet screen so you can see them without pausing the game. Being able to keep open the map, quest log, and inventory to change on the fly would be nice.

I can understand it not being here though. A lot of the people that would buy the game are gamers that own the other systems it is for and would already have the game. Re-releasing games like this on the Wii-U won't see much for them. Like Batman Arkham City, the people that want to play it will have done so already or elsewhere and I don't feel it will get much success. The best target for Wii-U is gamers who had a Wii and upgraded without having other consoles, or with new games. Nintendo needs to get behind companies and make sure games on the Wii-U aren't coming in 4th place each time behind the PC, PS3, and 360. At least visually it should be in second as long as the developers don't just do a lazy port, which is what most games will be for a long time.

or in real world talk, anyone who wanted Borderlands bought it months ago on some other format so we dont see any point in spending lots of money developing for another console that will get hardly any sales

cant say i blame the man

i can understand releasing new games on all the available platforms, but i cant understand why and developer would want to port an old game over

Wow, the demise of a consoleThe demise of a only weeks old console xD

You know, that is the same BS excuse people used to not put their games on Wii. The better reason would be I don't like money. Like the Wii before it, just because it has a certain controller as the main controller does not mean you have to use it for primary controls. The classic controller on Wii and the Pro controller on Wii U can be used as primary controllers.

oh that's alright then so trying to find one wouldn't be too much trouble on the "next gen" machine !! Ha sorry wii u fans !! i think this would have been a top idea.

I think it'd be pretty fun to have 3 players (splitscreen+gamepad) or 4 players (4-way splitscreen) on 1 system playing borderlands.

But I guess the WiiU can't handle that.

I think developers fear that people only buy Nintendo games on a Nintendo console. Look what happened with the Wii... 3rd party devs stopped making games because they didn't sell well. Same will probably happen with the Wii U.

Why Huskypaw doesn't care

Negotiations and blackmail will be used to make EA titles appear on the Wii u.

@emptycow @Anema1986

hey "dude", do you have inside information about the full specs of the Wii U? If you do not can you please stop speculatiing on something you have no real hard facts about and just quoting stuff from other forums/threads/sites. This is known, third party game developers who created Mass Effect or Batman or Cod, did not have a lot of time to port the game over to the Wii U. I am sure that over time when the developers have time to play around with the Wii U and get to know the hardware better they will create better games that will utilize the systems raw power. Also, there has been developers, that said that coding for the Wii U is similar to the Xbox, which everyone knows is a lot better than coding for the PS3.

Next time, get your facts right before coming here spilling that kind of filth.

No EA title will really come to the Wii U, Nintendo told EA to eat shit and didn't want to force their users to use Origin. So EA pulled support for Mass Effect 3 and we probably won't see a lot of EA games on the Wii U because of that.

Couldn't think of an obvious natural tablet feature? What was the feature for the PS3 or 360? PC and Mac, the obvious have-to-have-it feature, is the mouse. 360 or PS3? One could make the argument that it connects to a TV, but a PC can easily do that now, and even if that was the reason, why both consoles, why not just one? Wireless Controllers? PC as well. God, I hope people don't look at development of the Wii U like this. The idea that you need to find a natural have-to-have feature to make a game for a consoles doesn't make much sense since that reason doesn't hold for any other game or console.

Sadly, this is exactly what the Wii suffered from when developers were trying to find a way to use the motion control, or not making games because they didn't use the motion control, whether it was necessary or not. How about you just make the game like any other console since it has a pro controller and leave it at that? Hopefully this isn't the real reason and it was just a development timing issue, because this is a bit of a nonsense reason.

Lured by boobs in an article photo once again.