Why Borderlands skipped Wii U

To tell you the truth, the only Wii U feature that would be perfect for BL is if you had the inventory/skill tree system on the Gamepad. Anything else would be a wild card.

it would be cool to check the gunstats on the gamepad screen. You could check your hole inventory using the tablet. you point at a gun in the ground and voila, the screen on the gamepad shows you the stats and compares it to the gun you're currently holding.

Makes sense. The tablet is a really cool peripheral, but doesn't really bring anything unique to the table for this particular series.

If you play Borderlands 2 you should probably play on the PC with PhysX maxed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFkDrKvBRU

The graphical improvement is impressive. Great game anyway with solid gameplay single and co-op and funny writing. And loot!

Don't buy a Wii U to play Borderlands 1 or 2 if you could just play it on the similarly powerful and cheaper 360 or PS3.

borderlands sucks...but a lot of gamers seem to like it..so i wouldn't mind it on a nintendo platform.

I think the reason these developers are skipping releasing some prominent titles on the Wii U is more along the lines of the Wii U being a largely 'untested' system on the gaming market and they don't want to waste the time, energy and resources to build the game for the sytem without knowing for relative certainty they're going to get a good return on their investment. I think it's just that simple.

@emptycow @wcwj26 Wow! This just made me laugh, thank you good sir. But, you are a complete idiot. Making speculations like that without facts. Noone, and I mean no one know the full specs of the Wii U cpu and gpu. If, they can port current games like BLOP2 to Wii U and still maintain the graphics and close enough fps; than can you imagine what they can do if produced a game from the ground up on the Wii U after getting themselves familiar with the hardware. But, of course, that is also speculation of my behalf, though, at least I am not speaking from my ass like you.

No one is pointing a gun to their heads and saying 'You must use motion/touch controls!!!'.

This is some BS excuse.

“But with Aliens, the first thing we thought was ‘Holy sh*t, I can have a motion controller in my hands!’ When it’s there in my lap it feels like I’m part of the movie," he said. -> Implying Move, Kinect and Wii (not Wii U) didn't ALREADY have motion controls.

Sounds like he doesn't even knows why they made Aliens for Wii U.

@emptycow @TheOnlyConan And you say who cares about the PC? Well ... the 40+ million who have steam of course :-)

@emptycow @TheOnlyConan My PC didn't cost me $1000 nor do I play COD. jog on kid

nintendo is guide to another kind of custumers.

By my side I left nintendo behind on the 64 change for play station 2 and PC and then 360. There's more interesting stuff on consoles and pc. I dont wanna play mario anymore .... I ripen

I can appreciate this. They won't add a game on this system if they cannot make it work. They will add a game to the system when they can make it work.

Hear that, Ubisoft? That's how it's done.

Graphically im not too bothered about the 'current gen' games not coming to Wii U. Testing the Wii U's hardware against the big developers 'next gen' games is what im waiting for.

Just do what everyone else does, put a map on that useless iPad lolol

I dont know... being able to bring up the games map on the controller might be kind of nice, and maybe having your weapons displayed on the controller so all you have to do is tap one to switch instead of scrolling through would be nice too. I could see some ways the game could benifit from being on the WiiU. That said the only reason I would ever consider buying one is maybe in a year or two when the price has dropped and there is a new zelda for it that will have current gen graphics and actual controls.

I don't think hardcore gamers treated Nintendo as a gimmick brand until the publishers started releasing games that were gimmicky, which offends those of us with the capabilities to play games with more complicated coordination. But gimmicky games came from market research, and because the Wii and Wii U attracts casual gamers who often wanted the systems with reasoning other than rich gaming experience (every non-gamer I met thought they can use the Wii as a replacement to proper weight-loss exercise routine), the market creates a bad cycle.

On a side note: I know Wii sold as many units as there are guns in Borderlands. But outside of the hardcore gamer population, which I would estimate has been about the same for years, the majority of those sold units are sitting there collecting dust. People who weren't coordinated to play deep games went back to not playing games, and People who wanted to lose weight playing Wii sport went back to sitting and eating.

Yes people they arent porting it to another system to save money......so what? Would you spend extra money to have to tweak the workings of a game to re-release it onto a system that doesnt confer any type of benefit to the port? Yes its a business so they arent gonna waste money on something that isnt necessarily going to make them money. Wii U missed the launch date for the game. Sad day. If you were planning on getting a Wii U to play a game that was already released on another systems, VERY sad day for you.

How about not constant freezing at the main menu, like what happens when I try and play it for the Xbox 360? That would be a great addition to the Wii U version!

"we couldn’t think of a 'natural, obvious OMG-I-want-that-for-what the-Wii-U-brings-to-the-table feature" - translation - We don't want to make a port because we are lazy and don't think it will sell a lot on the wii u since it just launched

GearBox has finite resources, it's understandable.

They do not want to spend the resources to make a game that will not sell very many copies. Cause honestly if you wanted Borderlands, you already own it on the other systems, and you won't buy a second copy for the Wii U. If you don't own a PS3 or 360 but you got a Wii U, you are probably not old enough to even know about Borderlands, or purchase it. There is no reason for these companies to waste money to not make money.

Isn't the GAME itself the OMG I want that feature of Borderlands? Sounds kind of a lazy excuse.

Maybe the Wii U version could have an inventory system that isn't dookie.

Honestly, I haven't played a game on the Wii U. It is not something that is immediately obvious to me what the benefit would be. I personally think the XBox and PS3 graphics are fine, so I am pretty sure that I wouldn't have any problems with the Wii U graphics either. I just don't get the GamePad without having tried it. I know I will at some point. The first Wii was immediately obvious what the benefits were. This time they may be more hidden, or just not there at all. I am glad some people enjoy it though. Honestly, some people have enjoyed every game system that has ever been released. Good luck this time Nintendo.