According to several sources, gamers in Italy have been contacted regarding pre-orders of the game - which is due to release in March - telling them their orders have been cancelled, and advising them to choose another title to order…
Italian branches of GameStop, the gaming chain who have sent out these cancellations, have responded to enquiries about their actions, claiming that they could not uphold preorders on the Wii U because Watch Dogs has been cancelled on that platform.
It has been a fairly disastrous 14 months for Nintendo following the release of their Wii U console. Making very poor sales, the platform has already missed out on several key titles, including Assassin’s Creed IV’s DLC. To make matters worse, the launch of the highly critically acclaimed Super Mario 3D World seems to have failed to boost sales of the console in the way the Japanese manufacturer had hoped. To have such a key next-gen title taken off the Wii U can only make matters worse.
It comes just months after Watch Dogs creative director Jonathan Morin praised the look of the Wii U version of the game, saying that it was a “beautiful” game on Wii U, looked better than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, and that “it's cool to play it just on the GamePad."
There’s no news yet from Ubisoft on the matter, but we will keep you updated as soon as more information comes available.
What do you think of the rumours? Can Nintendo’s Wii U survive without this kind of third party support?
Let me know if you've had any problems with pre-orders on Nintendo's platform.
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