Is Destiny destined for Wii U?

There's not much of an excuse for not releasing Destiny on Wii U. It's just as powerful as the other two platforms Destiny is on - PS3 and Xbox 360. It would cost nearly nothing to port the PS360 version to Wii U. It almost looks like they have a personal vendetta against Nintendo just based on that even though it's (probably) not true.

With the Destiny hyperdrive roaring towards its September release date, Activision and Bungie have been revealing lots of information recently. The beta test for both of Sony’s PlayStation systems will arrive on July 17, while Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have to wait one full week more to get their hands on the sci-fi FPS. Beta access is only available via pre-order, and will end on all systems on the 27th.

The obvious omission from the list (aside from the PC) is Nintendo’s Wii U, which has been shunned by many developers entirely. A motivated group of fans known as “The Guardians” have hijacked Change.org and launched a petition to bring Destiny to the Wii U. The group hopes that if enough Wii U owners sign up, Activision and Bungie will take note, and hopefully adapt the game for the console. Given that the game is coming to previous generation consoles, and the Wii U has seen a sales spurt thanks to Mario Kart 8, their list of excuses seems to be narrowing. That said, any work to port the game would mean it’s release would most likely be a year after the game goes on sale for every other platform on September 9. Still, there can be little harm in Nintendo fans vocally encouraging third party developers to take note of their growing presence.

After all, it worked for Operation Rainfall.

http://www.warpzoned.com/2014/07/is-destiny-fated-to-appear-on-wii-u-nintendo-fans-want-to-believe-so/

I think the Wii U would probably blow up.

Why not? Just pay someone to port the ps360 version to the Wii U.

Probably not. It's not even coming to the PC any time soon either. They are pretty committed to the 4 platforms its launching on.

A petition? Really?

Why would you even pay attention to sensationalist journalism?

You do know that its a last gen game right?

There's no chance of the game heading to Wii U though.

I hope you are kidding because the WiiU is stronger then both last gen consoles. It will run the game fine.

Would be sweet if it came. Even sweeter would be pointer control support.

Nah, he's not kidding.

It will blow up, beware.

Source: I am a blowing up Wii Us specialist.

Wii U can run Crysis 3 so why the Hell not Destiny?

Stylus support would be pretty great, too.

Not happening. But that's okay...Wii U has it's own exclusives.

I'm quite surprised Activision isn't forcing Bungie to put it on everything from 3DS/PSV to mobile.

With a $500 million+ investment, you'd think Bungie wouldn't have any say in what platform it's on (even if they don't make it). They've really got Activision in their pocket if they can stave off the Corporate Commander.

Destiny would live longer on WiiU than Ps3/360 that is for sure...

Better name for it on the wii is Destiny Child. Guns you carry are paintball gun water gun nerf and guns that plays music and special sound effects. Characters contain metroid starfox zelda and donky kong

That is a great idea. Somebody should make that game. It would sell very well, and be featured on the competitive gaming scene, just like Smash. Donkey could use a bananazooka and rely on brute melee strength. Diddy would have his jet pack. Lukitu could fly around on his cloud dropping spinies on fools. Mario would have FLUDD. Luigi would be Luigi. It would be great.

yeah they fully should. get the current versions out, then announce pc/wii u for about 3mths later.

activision like money. and i don't think that because of destiny that the wii u would get blown.

mmm good point.

It's not about how easy or cheap it is port. It's all about opportunity cost and target audiences. When the wii u's fans have proved with their wallets they have no interest in first person shooters and only buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo's games.

It might make some money on wii u but why would Bungie waste their time porting it when there are far more profitable opportunities to make twice as much money porting the game on PC or some other platform where there is a sizable number of people asking for the game.

The more platforms the better, but given the social nature of the game, I think the WiiU's lackluster multiplayer support isn't well suited for Destiny. I mean, they couldn't even pull off that DLC for Batman.

this is the sole reason I'd buy it, if it came to WiiU.

You don't happen to be that one obsessed sony fanboys attaching TNT to Wii Us so that they become explosive are you?

A MMO required to use friend codes. I don't think that will work well.

but what 1st person shooters has it even gotten? Cod blops 2 and Ghosts, but is there anything else?

I don't think Nintendo has discovered what's online gaming is. So no.

I'm surprised they put it on PS3 because of its free online.

@shadowchronicle: Welp. You got me.

Because an Android phone could run Crysis 3, doesn't mean it should...

How would it cost nearly nothing? Your assumptions are baffling.

It should come out on all platforms.

It wouldn't sell, and it costs money to port a game. There is nothing in it for the publishers to put it on wii u.

it could be ported to the Wii U, but it won't be

For all you know, their engine may need a significant amount of work done to it in order to get it working on Wii U. They could do a quick and dirty port, but honestly, the Wii U has enough of those(CoD, ME3, SEv2, etc). If they want people to actually buy Destiny on Wii U, they need to make an effort and not shoehorn it.

its the dlc.

I don't know if it would sell all that well tbh

I really doubt it would. I would probably eventually get the Wii U version if there weren't a PC version coming, but if I get this game at all, it's going to be on the PC.

Lol owned by the next post

There are a lot of cross-gen games that aren't coming out on Wii U anymore. They did a few on launch, but there aren't many anymore.

None of the third party games sell well on it

I gave up hoping 3rd Parties will support WiiU.

Maybe Next Gen.

That petition is old. Real old. Last year old. And it took them until recently to score 2000 signatures. That's not going to convince anyone to port anything.

No, like most big 3rd party games it's skipping the Wiiu.

Yeah. It's pretty clear that Wii U owners just don't care about this game.

In a perfect would they would port it and it would even have those awesome, underrated Wii Remote / nunchuck FPS controls.

The WiiU version of monster hunter is one of the best selling third party games currently. Capcom was pretty happy about how much that version of the game sold.

It's not like the 360 and PS3's cpu are that strong either anymore and that game is still being ported to both. The WiiU's cpu is weak in some areas and if you know what you are doing you can mitigate the weaknesses to an extent, but almost all 360/PS3 can be ported to it easily still. Bungie may have to build their engine around the weaknesses and strengths of the WiiU's cpu to take advantage of it,,but they won't anyway since they won't be porting the game to the WiiU

So it would seem. In comparison, the Dark Souls 2 petition has managed a little over 17,000 signatures.