Surprises it's taken this long for the game to be officially announced. It's been listed on some retail websites for months and months for Wii U.

Awesome stuff. Personally hadn't heard anything about the Wii U version of this game for like 6 months so just assumed it had been canned.

Still coming to Wii U though, day one purchase for me!

Saw the article title and immediately considered picking up Assassins Creed 3 from the eShop. Down from £54.99 to £29.99? That's good as far as the eShop prices go.

Then discovered I could get the physical copy from ShopTo for just £21.85.
It's actually cheaper on there than the PS3 and 360 versions.

I ask everybody to boycott EA from now on. After Most Wanted on Wii U, I will never be buying another EA game again. They represent everything that is wrong with the industry today. They are so greedy, so terrible to their customers - this whole SimCity fiasco is just the start of things, I'm sure.

EA are a cancerous growth on the industry and things would be better without them.

@Jakurdo Good find.

@Moshugan Yeah, I got a Wii U on release day. Had a few freezing issues (about 3 or 4) in the first month (only while playing Black Ops) and have had none since. I'm not even that bothered about the load times at the moment but it's always nice to see improvements.

Only got to play for the last like 15 minutes. Was great fun though, I hope they do something like this again soon.

To be fair though, didn't PS Vita just have a massive price cut in Japan?

There's a good opportunity to showcase what Wii U is all about in this game, perhaps a perfect opportunity. If it works well, Nintendo should release a console bundle with Watch Dogs included.

@Majin-Naruto Don't Microsoft have something in the contracts that publishers have to sign that state games can't be released earlier on other platforms? If that's true then that would be why the Wii U version isn't being released first. Ubisoft aren't going to ignore that and have Legends miss out on the Xbox 360 platform either.

I hope this whole situation doesn't turn Ubisoft completely away from Nintendo. Things are already looking somewhat shaky.

As long as you don't cancel the Wii U version of Watch Dogs, Yves, you can complain all you like about Wii U sales figures.

I watched the entire PlayStation Meeting (out of curiosity, of course - my heart is with Nintendo), but the biggest excitement I've got all night was reading this news.

Just give me somewhere to preorder this and you have my money Ubisoft.

If games like this and Watch Dogs do actually come to Wii U, then people can stop worrying about the future of the system. They're both day one purchases for me.

I just wish one of the developers or publishers would have the balls to actually confirm that one of these games are coming to Wii U, maybe instil some confidence in the system.

We really need to err on the side of caution with this one. The source is dubious and with absolutely no confirmation from the developer or publisher, it would be foolish to get your hopes up about this.

That said, the Wii U is technically capable of handling the game with a little optimization and could be the best looking console version if they put in a little effort.

I can't help but feel that this could be the core title that really showcases what the system is about, if the GamePad is implemented well. It's a real system seller if this does turn out to be true.

This is great news and backs up what I've been telling my friends for a while now since we had some leaked specifications. People that claim Wii U is on par with Xbox 360 don't know what they're talking about and it shows.

It also draws a very nice comparison with other developers such as Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games. They looked at the clock rate of the CPU, clearly, tried to get it to run with very little optimization and failed, and then blasted the console and it's CPU as 'slow and horrible.'

All that tells a gamer is that the developers at 4A Games are ignorant and lazy and I won't be buying Metro: Last Light on any platform because of that. They represent everything that is wrong with the industry right now.

Kudos to Criterion Games, though. Most Wanted is a preorder for me.

@ngamer155 Gotta echo that statement. All the hate on Wii U the past week has been ridiculous. Great to break the chain and get some positive comments.

@NintenU As a big F1 fan, I'd love a proper F1 racing game too, but Codemasters are not the developers to bring it to us, sadly. I played F1 2010 and had to give up on it due to game-breaking bugs - usually AI and weather related which F1 fans will know are massively important aspects. They released one patch which didn't fix it then abandoned the game to focus on F1 2011.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt and bought F1 2011 on release expecting so much more but it was exactly the same. Game-breaking bugs and broken AI. Totally lost trust in them so I don't bother buying their games anymore.

Rant over.

EDIT: Actually rant not over. People should boycott their games, as much as I like the fact that they've given kind words to Wii U. They do effectively the same as the developers of Call of Duty do - recycle the same thing barely changed every year just to pocket a load of fast cash. Very little in the way of creativity and innovation and quite frankly, it represents a pretty lazy, greedy industry right now really rather well.

Stuff like this is wonderful news for Wii U.
I have no excuse to not get this game now. Played a demo on Steam not so long ago and it was great but thanks to work over Christmas, I had no time to play a full game.

@Ima_Gerd I agree. When did graphics go to peoples' heads so much? When did people forget that playing games is about how they make you feel and bringing a smile to your face (or a tear to your eye). The onset of HD certainly didn't help but now people care more about anti-aliasing than they do about how the game plays.

On another note, Wii U seems to have had the most hated release of any games console in recent history. The negativity for it is truly shocking. I went onto Google News about a week ago and typed in 'Wii U' (as I do when I want to see if any big news has come up) and every single article on the first page was critical of Wii U.

If Wii U survives all this negativity, then kudos to it and Nintendo. I love my Wii U, but it just seems like you can't convince modern console gamers that it's about the games and not the graphics.

This is great news for me! Played the demo on PC from Steam and really enjoyed it but never got round to buying it. Will definitely be picking this up on release for Wii U.

And, yeah, this is not a game for little kids so more software like this can hopefully shirk that old image of Nintendo is just for kids.

My one complaint about game pricing for the Wii U goes to the eShop, daaaaamn those prices are high. If you shop around, certain online retailers sell the same games in physical form for £10 - £15 cheaper. That eShop needs to be cheaper than retail otherwise it just defeats the object.

I also think marketing has been poor in the UK. Nowhere near enough TV adverts, and the adverts that are there are, in my opinion, still too casual-oriented.

I told a guy at work (who avidly plays on his 360) that I had bought a Wii U and his response was 'What is it?' It doesn't help when online retailers and high street stores keep mixing the Wii and Wii U sections - it just confuses people, they don't understand what Wii U is without doing some research and not every consumer is going to do that.

On another point I currently have 6 games for Wii U (one from the eShop), another on order, another on pre-order and I'm also planning to get Zen Pinball once that releases, so don't blame me for not contributing to the sales figures!

Every comment I've read on this article shoots Michael Pachter down in flames, but regrettably, I think he could be right. We already know a fair few third party developers are not bringing their games to Wii U for various reasons, because they can't work around this 'weak CPU' for example.

I don't think the next systems from Sony and/or Microsoft will be as 'Wow' as people think. I hear rumours that the next system from Microsoft has a 1.6Ghz CPU, which sounds about right when you take into consideration the advances that have been made in CPU architecture in the last half a decade. But despite all this, its inevitable that the competition will be more powerful than Wii U.

Im a big Nintendo fan and preordered my Wii U and I absolutely love it, but Nintendo make decisions that will put off third party developers. I think people should pay some attention to the mistakes that Nintendo do make. They need to move a little further away from the casual gamer market then they have done. It will do them wonders.

@Kevin_H I messaged them also. They probably don't take an awful lot of notice but if everyone did it!