Is Modern Warfare coming to Wii? Update: No.
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 4:49pm by Sean
UPDATE: Reporting from an Event in NYC, Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo wrote the following:
I asked about whether there would be a Call of Duty brand property or a Modern Warfare for Wii this year — given the million-plus sales of 2008’s CoD: World At War on the Wii. An Activision rep in attendance confirmed that there are no plans for MW2 to come to Nintendo’s system.
Follow the break for Infendo’s original article regarding MW2 Wii rumors and Australian pre-orders.
It could be a mistake riding Internet rumor, but Australian retailer JB Hifi is now selling pre-orders for a Wii version of Modern Warfare 2. According to Australian game store employee “VOOK” on the NeoGaf forums, it’s on his store’s official release list, one they received from Activision.
I just double checked and my official release list actually does list Wii for Modern Warfare 2… the Aussie list that is. From Activision themselves, but no other retailers including JB have it on their site.
Activision had yet to comment on these rumors, but a Wii version of the game would be little surprise after the company declared Modern Warfare 2 to be the “biggest entertainment launch of all time.“ More on this story as, and if, it develops.
[via Nintendo Everything]
July 16th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
yes, awesome! its just so hard to wait another year for a potential wii cod
July 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Watered down, non HD visuals?
Friend codes?
Probably no co-op?
No thanks.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I’ll deal, if it comes to Mac that is.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
As someone who poured almost a solid week, that’s 24×7 hours into the online side of Wii COD:WAW, it is disappointing that they aren’t bringing MW2 to the Wii. That said I wouldn’t buy it if they did.
Your asking yourself “But you love Wii FPS’s, why wouldn’t you play this?”. The answer is simple. The Military Industrial Complex has usurped the COD brand, or more rightly the Modern Warfare brand and it is now nothing but a training and recruiting ground for the NWO’s army of prozac and riddlin head soldiers. The Military now has robotic, lethal battlefield and homeland drones controlled by snot nose psychopathic killers using Xbox360 controllers.
I want no part of this!
July 17th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
That’s fine. I never had much love for army games.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Golly Chris_Wing, I had no idea my friends in Iraq were secretly robots and they were sitting on a comfy couch at home – those battle wounds must be cosmetic surgery.
..are you joking? I can’t tell.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
No That one guy, see, you didn’t read and made a stupid comment. I said that drones, military drones, you do know what those are right. There are the flying Predator drones, the walking Big Dog drones, and the flying gun turrets or buzzer drones. This is real technology that is being used today, yes, in Iraq/ Afpganiland. The military has just started using xbox 360 controllers as the input device for these drones because the vast majority of people stupid enough to join the army are also Xbox 360 users, and as such are familiar with the interface.
Sitting on a comfy couch at home, well if home is a command bunker at their base in said country, then yes. And before you even try imply that your friends in Iraq give you some kind if insight into the inner workings of the Military Industrial Complex, just STFU! We all have friends and family who have been fed to the grinder, my self, I lost a close friend to an American drone in Afganistan, he was a Canadian soldier. The inquiry into what happened found that the operator of the attack drone was on military issued meth. and had been working for 15 hours straight when he killed my friend.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Chris_Wing:
Whoa, take it easy freakazoid, I know what drones are, and I never once indicated that I thought I had “insight” to the “Military Industrial Complex,” your statement however, was unclear. Your suggestion seemed to be that COD:MW2 was not a video game designed to be sold for entertainment purposes, but was, in fact, “America’s Army: The covert version.”
Having not heard about xbox 360 controllers being used in the military for any purpose, I took your entire comment as a lighthearted joke. Great way to over-react though.
I’m sorry you lost your friend, but ultimately remote controlled drones reduce the number of casualties on the side of the war that’s using said drones. I hope whomever made the mistake that killed your friend is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and beyond, but i’m simply not interested in getting into a military ethics conversation on a Nintendo website. If you can’t handle a little blind sarcasm from a source that obviously has no connection to your own personal feelings about military drone use, I suggest you refrain from bringing the topic up.
July 17th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Alright That one guy, I don’t know why you resorted to name calling, but whatever.
“I had no idea my friends in Iraq were secretly robots”
You’re trying to make it sound like the drones I was talking about are the soldiers themselves, or more pointedly your friends, of course that’s not what I’m saying. I am however glad you brought up “Americas Army”. Americas Army the video game was an overt military training and recruiting tool, meaning it’s purpose was to take youth’s, sell them on war, train their skills, and ultimately recruit them into the real army. AA3 was just released, and the next day(ish) the studio was dissolved. Since then the number one war shooter, Modern Warfare has received backing from the military. Why would a military video game need military backing. To properly include “modern” and prototype weapons the developer needs to get design and performance specs direct from the makers of the weapons so the game can be as authentic as possible.
Now if these drone weapons are actually controlled by Xbox controllers in real life, wouldn’t it make sense to train you to use them with an Xbox controller, or similar styled ps3 controller?
“Your suggestion seemed to be that COD:MW2 was not a video game designed to be sold for entertainment purposes, but was, in fact, “America’s Army: The covert version.””
Americas Army was designed as a multi purpose product, providing entertainment, training, and recruiting, just like Modern Warfare 2 is trying to do covertly, so yes that is what I’m saying.
The predator drones are already being used in North America to patrol the Canadian and Mexican boarders, the southern ones having live payloads (officially to be used only on the Mexican drug cartels). With the total collapse of the us economy on the horizon and patriots digging in against the mandatory piggy vaccinations that are coming this fall and winter from Baxter (search “Baxter ships live bird flu shots”) we can expect these drones to be turned on us when revolt leads to revolution against the new world order.
If this is all foreign to you a good starting point is to read the Georgia Guide Stones.
I little heavy for a Nintendo site, but there you go.
July 17th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I’m not trying to make anything sound like anything, it was one sarcastic aside, a whimsical comment. Chill out, buddy – no need to get all “New World Order” conspiracy theory on me.
Nintendo games, remember? Yeesh.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Conspiracy theory! Have you been watching the news? Global Government, Bank of the World, SDR’s, Global Carbon Tax, Obama Youth Corps, In Home Vaccination Interventions, 13 plus trillion unaccounted for since the “bailouts” started(more then the GDP)? I mean come on, there’s no theory about it Bubba. They admitted the formation of a “new world order” at this years G8, they used those words! Yah it’s easy to dismiss everything as a theory when your ignorant. I suppose that the largest scientific dictatorship the world has ever seen happened by accident. Yeesh back at yah.
Okay, now we came get back to games. Bit Trip Core is awesome huh!
July 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I’m not saying America and the world isn’t going to hell in a handbasket, the President himself said he wants to “re-make” America, but put your cardboard signs away man, it’s not brown trousers time yet.
I haven’t tried Bit.Trip.Core yet, but I saw a pretty kickass video. I’m actually more on a gamecube kick right now, my local shop is having a sale on a bunch of classics i missed out on.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Yah, I’ve been playing a bunch of Gamecube lately as well. I Just got Spartan Total Warrior for super cheap. I can’t tell you how much fun that game is!
Anyways, in retrospect I did go kind of overboard didn’t I. Lol, good job not losing it on me.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
No worries, it was pretty interesting, and led me to a few news articles I may not have found otherwise.
I just looked up Spartan Total Warrior, that actually looks pretty good – it flew right under my radar when it was released!
July 19th, 2009 at 3:33 am
chris wing,
When you play The Conduit, remember to keep telling yourself that it’s not real.