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Wii U Black Ops II Has Nuketown 2025 Pre-Order Bonus Pulled From Retailers

Posted on Saturday, November 10 @ 09:10:36 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack


Nintendo has made a big statement by Wii U supporting Call of Duty: Black Ops II on launch day, but the removal of a key pre-order bonus might mar its release.

Despite Nuketown 2025 previously being advertised as a bonus for pre-ordering Black Ops II on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii U, all evidence of Wii U being included on the deal has vanished. As a matter of fact, if you load a cached version of the Black Ops II site you can see the pre-order bonus listed, but the current site has the information removed (look above for an example). Additionally, all major retailers including Amazon and GameStop have deleted the line that states "Nuketown 2025 content will be available in the product packaging".

So it's safe to say the map isn't coming to Wii U on launch day, but this begs the question: will it ever get Nuketown 2025? It was an incredibly popular map in the original Black Ops and could mean the difference between veterans pre-ordering it on Nintendo's new platform or looking elsewhere. If it's coming but will be delayed, then Activision needs to say so, or Nintendo might lose out on some sales of what is inarguably its most important title for core gamers this year.


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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 9:50 am
    Ouch. And here I was thinking Nintendo was really bringing out a more traditional powerful gamer hardware and they trip up on the games. I played black ops back in the day. Nuke town is the map everyone I knew played 24/7
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 11:15 am
    Maybe for some reason they had a limited number of preorder bonus's and they ran out? Always seemed weird to me that they limit digital stuff but sometimes they do for some reason.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
    I just found a few sources that say Amazon sent out an email for preorders to say the bonus was removed.
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
    All the Black Ops II boxes say Nuketown 2025 is included on the back, I'll post some pics in the forums, haven't seen the Wii U ones but both PS3 and Xbox include it regardless of pre-order
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
    The first round of orders are considered pre-order copies. Prints afterward will not contain the free code.
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
    Have you seen how many limited editions are still sitting on shelves of all the games they released? They print like a bazillion copies with the code, I doubt if someone waits till Black Friday or later they will miss out on this one map at all, especially considering that it most likely will be the most played map... Are they willing to alienate people and run 24/7 events even when some people don't have the map?
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
    My friend bought BF3 Limited Edition for $60 at launch off the shelf, there was a code...
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
    I bought it off the shelf as well, most games with these so called preorder bonuses won't run out of the early map supply before most of the people that want the game will buy it. BlOps2 is no different from people buying LE games a year or so after launch.

    BF3 was a better buy later with the Premium Edition. I see copies of that going for ~39.99 at some stores, ****ing ridiculous compared to the people that payed full price for the vanilla LE + extra map packs and all the packs aren't out so it's not as if they are so far behind.
  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
    Nintendo's online infrastructure is a big question for everyone right now. Black Ops II for Wii U will not have Nuketown 2025, CoD Elite support, and no future DLC whatsoever. Basically what comes on the disc itself is all Wii U owners will get.

    I bet by next years Modern Warfare 4 the infrastructure will be established enough for CoD to have all the features the PS3/360 version will have.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
    I agree. My major concern about the Wii U is Nintendo are even more behind the times than Sony has been. Cross game chat should be absolutely mandatory, as should a reasonable microphone/chat solution.

    As much as I'm excited to get the Wii U, I feel like a real bastard for supporting a company that is 10 years behind. I'm seriously glad I have a gaming PC or I might go run off a cliff.
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 10th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
    They are still in talks about DLC being supported, so I'm assuming Nuketown 2025 falls in line with the DLC map packs. I think everything will be in order by next year, but...it might be too late.
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