Ubisoft has confirmed that the Wii U version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online has been temporarily put on hold. In an interview with VideoGamer, producer Theo Sanders discussed the team’s decision to focus “completely on the PC version.”
"As of right now, the entire Ghost Recon team is focused on the PC version only," Sanders said. "The Wii U version is on hold. If in the future we have an opportunity to address it again, we'll make future announcements.”
As for the notion that this development has something to do with Nintendo’s online plans or Wii U hardware issues, Sanders was quick to debunk such speculation. "It's not a reaction to anything specific happening to [Wii U]," he said. "It was a really fun, cool platform to develop for. But you realize once you launch an online service that it's an all-consuming effort, so we really wanted to have all hands on deck. It was the same dev team working on both SKUs, and [we] really wanted to focus on doing the PC version right.”
While this may be disappointing, don’t rule out the possibility of Ghost Recom Online hitting consoles sometime down the line. "It's hard to say how the future will go for Ghost Recon Online," Sanders said. "I think in the future as different platforms evolve towards service models and towards being really online-driven, community-driven platforms, then we'll definitely be looking at what our options are.”
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