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Black Ops II on Wii U has more players than Killzone: Shadow Fall
- Thread starter LiveFromKyoto
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maneil99
Member
Ghosts has a smaller playerbase then BO2, its a bad port. The Wii has no online player base for FPS games.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Thats exactly why BLOPS2 has a small but dedicated playerbase on the Wii U.
do they count launch bundle/deal copies?
Not too surprising since COD is much more popular, KZ's MP wasn't very fun, and PS4 has Battlefield 4 and COD to keep people out of KZ. Hell, when I played KZ last year there weren't many people playing it and that was right after launch.
Edit: You also need PS+ to play MP on PS4
Edit: You also need PS+ to play MP on PS4
Why are you that blown away? It was a launch game on a platform with multiple multiplayer games, especially shooters. For the Wii U Call of Duty is really the only option for that genre.
Also add to the fact some people don't even play online. I have Killzone Shadow Fall and only played the single player. Have no desire to play competitive multilayer but the upcoming co-op dlc sounds interesting.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
WiiU starved for games and shooters especially. PS4 stomps WiiU in choices. Off the top of my head here are a few shooters which are not on WiiU or are just better on PS4 - BF4, CoD Ghosts, Wolfenstein New Order, Blacklight Retribution, and WarThunder.
Doesn't excuse much but choices for good shooters are more plentiful on PS4.
Doesn't excuse much but choices for good shooters are more plentiful on PS4.
BananaSprinkles
Banned
I'm going to need more evidence than one screenshot of each game.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I think it has more to do with the fact Killzone was Sony's premier fps shooter exclusive franchise, comparable to halo for Xbox (of course no where near as popular).
It's not great news for the franchises multiplayer scene either way. But at least it sold well.
Astral Dog
Member
If thats true, good for Wii U, i guess...
The issue is that Sony doesn't treat Killzone like MS treats Halo.
But yeah, those MP numbers are mind boggling. The game isn't even a year old yet, you're telling me all the players just up and left for CoD and BF4?
One of them is broken on the system, the other isn't as good as past installments.
Gintoki313
Banned
From what I've played of the KZSF multiplayer when it was on PS+, I can see why those numbers are low. I didn't have that much fun, as I did with the past KZ games online. Even KZ3's multiplayer was better then SF, and it was one of the weaker KZ's.
BO2 is pretty good, and I'm guessing it isn't too different on WiiU.
BO2 is pretty good, and I'm guessing it isn't too different on WiiU.
CaptainTiptop
Member
Wow, doesn't look like that early DLC did much for the Xbone. BF4 is probably PS4's most popular shooter right now.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
MP I might agree but SP? No.
Exploratory
Banned
Seems BF is more popular on PlayStation period.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
PS4 has Cod and Battlefield, fps people play these games and very few care about killzone, even if it's supported so well by Guerrilla Games
Except that Black Ops II on Wii U probably sold about 10% of Shadow Fall's sales.
The Rain King
Member
I think it's probably coz BO2>>>>>KZ:SF.
I actually love Killzone: Shadowfall's multiplayer a lot and was playing it really heavily during launch/post-launch periods, but there's only so much of 'spawn, die, get revived by another player, die again from a turret/air support drone/drone buddy/grenade, repeat' that you can take before you swear off of it forever.
When you have really great teams and great matches (I played with one guy who directed everyone over mic on where to go that he got the nickname of "Master Chief"), Killzone Shadowfall is wonderful.
When you have really great teams and great matches (I played with one guy who directed everyone over mic on where to go that he got the nickname of "Master Chief"), Killzone Shadowfall is wonderful.
welll
Does wii u have other online shooters ?
edit: Actually, reading more of the thread 1000 out of 2 million is pretty damn shocking. I wonder what that means for the future of the franchise.
I just think Launch shooters and possibly Launch games in general are usually never looked at all that favorably later into the systems life. Just like Resistance 1, I remember seeing alot of people hating on the game, but I actually thought the first Resistance was brilliant with some of the weapons, and the level design was great, as well as the difficulty. There are exceptions like Mario 64, Crash 1, and Halo that were Launch or Launch Window that are still looked upon favorably.
I think a bit of the Killzone hate stems from those who bought it at launch and played the Single player while is still had a few problems that they ended up fixing in a patch later. Some were also probably disappointed when they found out that the multiplayer that was promised as 1080p and 60fps ended up faux-1080p and 60fps was only in a few few places in online multiplayer. Still I enjoyed the class based system and the overall feel of the game, and now it kinda sucks seeing that no many people are really playing the game online at all anymore. I remember Killzone 2 being active for quite a while when I used to play that back when it came out.
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
Damn, that's sad. The biggest franchise in gaming barely manages to beat out the dead-est shooter on a console that came out a full year later.
Wii hardly knew U.
Not sure why KZ:SF's MP is so dead, but I'll freely admit to it being a disappointment. It seemed to follow the Crytek path of pretty graphics with un-engaging gameplay. Whereas BLOPS2 is still one of the best CoD games so far.
Wii hardly knew U.
Not sure why KZ:SF's MP is so dead, but I'll freely admit to it being a disappointment. It seemed to follow the Crytek path of pretty graphics with un-engaging gameplay. Whereas BLOPS2 is still one of the best CoD games so far.
CoD: Ghost is the only other one that I know of.
A few of the Wii CoD games were 1 mil+ sellers. I'm not going to say that the FPS community on the Wii rivals CoD on PS3/360 numbers, but I imagine that the Wii FPS games' (Conduit, CoD, etc.) online communities definitely can rival these pathetic numbers.
BO2's online playercount is only slightly higher than Ghosts' on average according to a poster on the other thread.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
Faster.
EL CUCO
Member
I agree with this. Most fun I've had in all CoD's is on this one.
It has that shitty Bond game that came out at launch as well. That is it.
NullPointer
Member
This. Was playing Killzone as my go to game from day one and I don't remember ever seeing high population numbers.
Wonder what happened with that. The Goldeneye remake for the Wii was pretty decent, what caused Legends to be so piss poor?
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Looks like the next Killzone should just go the Wolfenstein route and focus entirely on a single player campaign.
As visually beautiful as KI:SF is... it lacks magic. Honestly, I played the campaign, and it was bland. I gave up on it, and didn't finish it. The multiplayer is the same thing.... very bland. Compared to Ghosts, BF4 and even other PSN multiplayer, its definitely lacking.
Beautiful game with boring presentation and gameplay. I enjoyed the other Killzone game a lot more.
Beautiful game with boring presentation and gameplay. I enjoyed the other Killzone game a lot more.