Warp Zoned writes:
"Ubisoft has been sending out mixed signals regarding Nintendo’s beleaguered home console over the last few months. Despite a renewed momentum in sales thanks to the likes of Mario Kart 8 and the release of Hyrule Warriors in Japan, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that Watch Dogs would be the last mature game published on the Wii U. Guillemot pointed to the fact that the Wii U accounted for a mere three percent of the company’s sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. The Xbox One doubled the Wii U’s total with 6%, and the PS4 tripled it with 9%. Impressive, considering they were both launched half-way through this period. The original Wii chipped in for 11%."
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
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This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
Nah forget ubisoft, they clearly don't even don't know Nintendo's demographic.
"I understand that the console may not have the power to have Assassin’s Creed: Unity ported over from the PS4" what a load of crap.
At this point, the number of core-gamer-focused multiplat games that Ubisoft has done right on the Wii U, has been out-weighed by the number of ports with something missing or wrong within them.
They had a few successes, though...
Zombi U sold 700k to a very small install base[I think it was merely 3M at the time? Whether they think that's enough to call it a success or not, I'd say it was, personally, given the systems marketing troubles at the time], even though that started out as a game about aliens due for the PS360 and was just re-tooled instead of built directly for the system...
Child of Light is an absolutely fantastic little modern-day fairy tail/rpg.
The aesthetics are gorgeous and the characters are, on the whole, endearing, though the end game grinding can get a bit dull depending on your tastes.
Rayman Legends sold best on Wii U for quite a long stretch, only losing steam once Mario 3D World came out and de-throned it, which let the PS3 version overtake it by a slim amount.
So there is precedent for Ubisoft making games that somewhat appeal to the tastes of Nintendo gamers.
They've shown that they can do it.
The key to them getting further profit out of the system, though, is to keep trying until they have created an IP that really CLICKS with core Nintendo gamers, then turn that into a franchise that they can make bank off of the same way they do with the franchises they've already established on other consoles.
Once they hit that sweet spot with the right kind of game, a lot of trust in their capabilities as developers for the system will be restored in the fan base, and then their other games will likely earn more sales from the fanbase, too.
If they try hard enough, they could do it.
They have the talent. They just need to be brave enough to take the risk.
Many things worth doing in life come with at least a little bit of risk, after all.
Forget Ubisoft. All of these bloated, greedy, abusing companies are destroying gaming with their biased practices.
They promote and favor the highest bidders, release broken games with missing content and features, and when things don't go how they want, they blame consumers and the console manufacturer of the consumers they screwed.
Ubisoft has reached EA status for me. They won't be seeing a penny of my money on any platform.
#boycottUbisoftgames
To hell with those cheap liars. They give no support for their ports, lied abour Rayman being an exclusive and then release it late, they never once advertised the multi plat ports on TV as being released for the Wii U as well as the other consoles, and then blame me, a Wii U owner, for their failure. As an Idealist, I purchased all Ubisoft games initially for the Wii U. They like to say that the Wii U doesnt have a high enough install base all the time. Wii U has sold almost 2 million more units than the XB1 but those hypocrites still make games for that system!
I own 4 Ubisoft games for it And I did so to try and promote the third party comeback on the Wii U. In the end I got glitchy port after glitchy port and no DLC or undates for them and some how it is all my fault, in their minds. They can rot in hell because I will never buy another Ubisoft game.
Ubisoft might release another Rabbids game or something, but no more mature games for WiiU.