Ubisoft: Wii U hasn't sold enough to make more exclusives
Ubisoft was behind one of the Wii U's most notable exclusives, ZombiU, but CEO Yves Guillemot has said the company won't make more exclusives until more people own the console. However, making games for Wii U has been a valuable learning experience for the fancy second-screen features Ubi unveiled for loads of games at E3.
Ubisoft was behind one of the Wii U's most notable exclusives, ZombiU, but CEO Yves Guillemot has said the company won't make more exclusives until more people own the console.
However, making games for Wii U has been a valuable learning experience for the fancy second-screen features Ubi unveiled for loads of games at E3.
"We need more sold," Guillemot told Kotaku straight. "They are coming with five of their biggest brands ever. And the Yen went down. So maybe they will take steps that will increase the number of consoles sold."
Ubi spewed second-screen functionality all over the place at E3, announcing companion apps which will hook into several games to let players join in without picking up a controller, or even necessarily being in the same room. Tom Clancy's The Division, Assassin's Creed 4 and The Crew all feature such fanciness, and developing for the Wii U GamePad helped experiment with ways to use a second screen.
"What we did last year, was we knew we could learn second-screen with Nintendo, so we went full-speed to use this capacity the console was bringing," he explained.
"And we were able to develop Rayman, which will come at the end of this year and which is fantastic, using this second screen. What we saw is that, in learning that, we can also use it with the other consoles with Smart Glass, for example, and it's a good option that is coming to us."
Rayman Legends was notably announced as a Wii U exclusive but is now coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Vita too. Ubisoft even delayed it by nine months to launch alongside the others.
Guillemot also hinted that we may see more of something ZombiU-ish some day, though from his chat it'd be surprising if such a game were exclusive to Wii U again.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Ubisoft: Wii U hasn't sold enough to make more exclusives.
Ubisoft was behind one of the Wii U's most notable exclusives, ZombiU, but CEO Yves Guillemot has said the company won't make more exclusives until more people own the console. However, making games for Wii U has been a valuable learning experience for the fancy second-screen features Ubi unveiled for loads of games at E3.-
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I think there's some other little company that still makes Wii U exclusives
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Coming out of E3 the WiiU has the most exlcusives.
It's hard on the eyes but this pic shows the WiiU with 13, the Xbone with 8 and the PS4 with 5.
http://i.imgur.com/ZWK5YzZ.png-
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how many of those aren't from Nintendo though? Looks like 3-4 if you include Bayonetta even though it only exists due to Nintendo acting as a publisher right? 3 3rd party exclusives a year into release is low even for Nintendo's normally sparse 3rd party line up.
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I think it's more like people would rather not have $300-400 Nintendo consoles basically have an implicit requirement that you purchase a second $400 machine in order to play most non-Nintendo games. They know they'll get Nintendo games but Nintendo keeps claiming they've got innovative hardware experiences but then if no one else builds on them that's a little underwhelming.
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This list is so laughably incomplete.
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Yeah, this sums it up: http://i.imgur.com/6A0EPwM.gif
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Moral of the story. Publishers are not to be trusted. They lie to the public all the time.
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Moral of the story is Nintendo should have invested in and expanded their first party studios when they were making crazy Wii money but having problems with getting third party games. I think it would have helped the Wii U a lot more to have a number of interesting launch titles. Nintendo really dropped the ball on that front.
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They helped hype the console. They got as much interest as they could. I wouldn't have blamed them to write of Nintendo to begin with. They designed a system to be abandoned by 3rd parties within a couple of years.
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Sorta like how they pledged to make Zombi U exclusive before the console was released?
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