Why Borderlands skipped Wii U

Well at least they just didn't put a map or a weapons selection screen on the Wii U tablet Gamepad and call it a day.

But they could still release a port that uses just the Wii U pro controllers.

Just release the damn game and stop trying to turn everything into a gimmick...the Wii U is going to be ruined.

nintendo will die because they have ruined relationships with most game makers....im not 12 so mario and zelda dont impress me...also i like controllers not an ipad add on controller...i have a 40 inch hd tv why in the world would i play it on a small tablet.....nintendo is out of touch with reality.

people here on Gamespot arent the brightest bulbs in the pack. Let me explain what Randy Pitchford was saying. To port it to the Wii U would be expensive and take away resources from Gearbox. This game has been released for several months before the Wii Us debut to stores. If they were working on a port then they'd need a "gimmick" as some people would like to call it, or something that would make you choosed this over your older systems. It likely wasnt going to make back thier initial investment because the instal base is relatively low (Xbox and ps3 have had 6 and 7 years to get where they are). They need something to make this better or stand out since its wouldve came out a few months after.

OMFG, the console has been out for a damn week. That's it. The Xbox performed miserably out of the gate as well, but built up momentum. We don't know what NEW games will come to the system, what NEW IP will do with it, or how players will react to this NEW stuff.

From a business perspective, porting an already finished game to a console in its infancy doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The market is small, the cost is large, and most people who would want the game have an avenue to obtain it. Developing a new game, OTOH, can cost far less as development can happen in parallel.

Look, we don't know if the WiiU will be a success or not. I know I didn't buy one because the launch lineup isn't good enough. I will probably buy one at some point though. But this trend of dumping on the ONLY company bringing ANY innovation to the industry is getting real old, real fast. The last innovation we got out of Sony or Microsoft was Sony putting two analog sticks on a controller. That was a big deal, seriously, but c'mon guys, what else ya got?

@mrboone01 @slyfox_28 I was waiting for the fanboys to show up...

Borderlands 2 is a lot of fun on the pc.

battlefield 4 on wii u....Hmmmm?

it would be nice on wii-u for the co-op fullscreen..... that said i have it on pc.

when playing coop, you can't pause the game when goin through inventory. It can be a quick death to have to swap out weapons. Using the gamepad to quickly and effectively equip different items and still be able to see what's goin on/ shoot WOULD be a great use for the game pad.

The game was not designed to utilize a tablet... so to say there's no great feature that takes advantage of it, well, yeah. It wasn't designed to do so. You'd have to rewrite the game's design to adapt the touchpad to be used for anything outside of inventory. The game should be released for the Wii U simply because it's a good system that people will want to play the game on, and the extra added ability to manage inventory on the pad could be a nice addition. Seems simple enough to me.

Why is it that all of the articles from Gamespot regarding the Wii U have very negative overtones? What's the deal? Go to metacritic, and you'll see that gamespot has rated almost all the WIi U games lower than every other review site. Why is this??? What's the deal?

"Gearbox Software is supporting Wii U with its upcoming shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines, said to be the best-looking version of the game." In other words, A:CM is not going to be on the PC.

Eddie Makuch is on the roll with all the anit-Wii u articles today. Can you just come out and admit that you just don't like nintendo already? It's like your digging for anything or anyone out there that will validate this claim whether its a washed up game designer or a company thats not putting one of their games that came out a month ago on to the new console (even though one of their most anticipated games is coming to the wii and is the best version). Maybe you are doing this just to start a flame war, or just catering to the other Nintendo haters on this site. I swear MS or Sony never gets as much heat on here as much as Nintendo.

It would be gnarly to have your skills, badass, and weapons menus, (or map) on the handheld unit. I may never get the new Nintendo (...right away) but the applications are definitely there to enhance a gaming experience where Sony or Microsoft units cannot take games.

Wii u needs gimmicks only. No reason to have RE6, Borderlands, DS3, etc on wii u. People will still buy the wii u just for the dancing and fitness games. Let the other platforms have the good games. Simple.

I'm not so sure people bought the WiiU for games like Borderlands 2 and Battlefield 3...

There is an obvious answer here...

I got a Wii U mainly for Nintendo, Retro studios and P+ games

Heres the pattern Im noticing, a gamespot writer makes a Wii-U article of why this game ISNT on it and why THAT game isnt on it. I must say Ive never seen this done on any other system because most reasonable people know that it takes time for cross platform games to goto newer systems....so I dont see the reason for these topics unless there just isnt any news going on right now.....

I personally got the Wii U just for the first party titles. That has always been Nintendo's bread and butter. And personally, that is enough for me. I made fun of the Wii when it first release but got one in college and I think me and my roommates spent more time on that than our PS3s and 360s. Bring on the next Mario party so we can get the drinking games going again.

Well looks like the WiiU will not only suffer from no ports from Next gen 3rd party but also current gen. How sad.. I have a WiiU but will sell it if this keeps up.