Take-Two made the decision not to make a Wii U SKU for GTAV long before there were any sales figures.
Konami made the decision not to make a Wii U SKU of MGSV long before there were any sales figures.
I'm not sure why people keep acting surprised that publishers make decisions based on expectation and forecasting.
But in these cases no one promised the famous "unprecedented support", which ironically enough is exactly what they are doing.