Activision “Somewhat Disappointed” With Nintendo’s Wii U System

<p>Unfortunately for Nintendo &lpar;and publishers who are currently&sol;planning to support the system&rpar;&comma; Wii U sales haven&&num;8217&semi;t been all that great&period; Many blame the lack of titles currently available for the system whilst others think that it was launched too early and without key features such as Nintendo TVii and a Virtual Console store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To add further flames to the fire&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Activision Blizzard" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;activision&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Activision<&sol;a> has stated that the company is &&num;8220&semi;somewhat disappointed&&num;8221&semi; in the launch of the Wii U system&period; During the company&&num;8217&semi;s latest earnings call&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Robert Kotick" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Robert&lowbar;Kotick" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Bobby Kotick<&sol;a> &lpar;CEO&comma; President and a director of <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Activision Blizzard" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;activisionblizzard&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Activision Blizzard<&sol;a>&rpar; had the following to say&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;We were somewhat disappointed with the launch of the Wii U&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re concerned about the install base for 6-11 year-olds&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What is interesting to note more than the &&num;8220&semi;somewhat disappointed&&num;8221&semi; part is that Activision is concerned about the install base for 6-11 year olds&period; Children&period; This was the exact market that&comma; whilst wanting to still appeal to it&comma; Nintendo wanted to be seen to be moving away from as it secured third-party developers when the Wii U launched with enhanced ports of Batman&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Darksiders" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Darksiders" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Darksiders<&sol;a> and <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Assassin's Creed &lpar;video game&rpar;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Assassin&percnt;27s&lowbar;Creed&lowbar;&percnt;28video&lowbar;game&percnt;29" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Assassins Creed<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As only time will tell for the future of the Wii U&comma; we want to know your thoughts on where the company is heading&period; Did they launch their console prematurely&comma; or do you think they will pull it out of the bag once <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Super Smash Bros&period;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Super&lowbar;Smash&lowbar;Bros&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Smash Brothers<&sol;a> and other first-party titles are launched&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5982657&sol;activision-is-somewhat-disappointed-with-the-launch-of-the-wii-u">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;3fc02ca6-ca01-496b-9bd1-e9d3052fbebe" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;