Ubisoft has confirmed that Ghost Recon Online is still on its way to Wii U. While the Wii U version of the title was announced at E3 2011 , it was absent from both Nintendo and Ubisoft’s E3 press conferences and booths this year, causing some people to wonder if the title is still headed to Nintendo’s new system. Now, Ubisoft tells IGN that the Wii U version is still planned but will arrive after the PC version.

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“Ghost Recon Online is being developed for the PC first. That was always the plan,” senior vice president of sales and marketing Tony Key told IGN. “The team is taking a little bit longer than they thought they would to get Ghost Recon Online to the level and quality that they want and that definitely has had an impact on how much time they’re able to spend on the Wii U version because we want to make sure we get it right.”According to Key, the development team working on the PC version is made up of many of the same people who will make the game for Wii U, so the project will have to wait until the PC version has been completed.“If we start working on the Wii U too soon, we might end up wasting a lot of resources because the PC is a lot easier to test and learn with,” Key said. “Ghost Recon Online on the PC, we can test and learn with that and apply all the best benefits we learn onto the Wii U version to make sure that it’s a great Wii U game. That’s an unusual product for a console and we want to make sure we nail it. It really is because the PC team is a lot of the same guys that will work on the Wii U.”Ubisoft showed off several Wii U titles during its E3 press conference, including Rayman Legends, Avengers: Battle for Earth, ZombiU, Assassin’s Creed III and Just Dance 4. In addition, the publisher told us this week that its upcoming new IP Watch Dogs could come to Wii U

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