Kotaku

According to the French publisher's CEO, not only is Nintendo's Wii successor—currently known as Project Cafe—a "fantastic platform," it's also bound to be home to many a port from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot said during an investor call today that the company's a huge fan of the Wii 2, according to a recount of the event from Giant Bomb. Guillemot predicts it will be "hugely successful."

And it could one day be home to a future Assassin's Creed or Splinter Cell.

"What we see is that we will be able to leverage a lot of the work that we do for Xbox 360 and PS3 when we will create games for the platform," Guillemot said. "We will not have to redo completely the games we create. We'll be able to use all the capacities the console is giving, but also use all the work that we do for the other platforms."

Ubisoft hasn't been shy about supporting the Wii when other third-party publishers drifted away from it. The company has seen success with titles like Just Dance, Red Steel and theRaving Rabbids series. So don't expect Ubi's Nintendo efforts to start and stop with simple cross-platform ports.

We're just a few weeks away from seeing what Nintendo's next home console will be capable of—and just how much work developers like Ubisoft will have to put in to make its games work on that unique new hardware.

http://kotaku.com/5801436/what-does-ubisoft-think-of-the-wii-2

File this one under "fucking duh".

On the surface, it seems like a "duh", but if they are saying it is easy to code and port stuff over, this means Nintendo is a lock to get all the stuff that shows up on the 360 and PS3.  This is good for Nintendo, if that is the case.  Plus, if the next Nintendo console has more features, then among multi-console titles, the Nintendo version could be the best version of the games.

If the games are old though it doesn't really matter case in point ps3 version of ME2

It also means that it's very likely the Nintendo version won't make the most of the console's power advantage over the PS360 (whatever it might end up being), and unless it has a significant power advantage, when Microsoft and Sony release their new consoles in 2-3 years it will just lead to the third parties giving Project Cafe the Wii treatment all over again. "It's below our specs!" protests Future Mark Rein.

It's below our specs will preach present Marc Rein, i'm betting. Or at least this will be the one conclusive test to see how deep Epic's distaste for Nintendo platforms reaches.

As for what will occur, we will see. Ubisoft had fun porting old PS2 stuff to Wii early on as well, but dicked them over on original content. Will they do the same again? time will tell in that case as well...

What I really want to see is whether or not Cafe will also get PS4/XB720 games.

So long as by port,you mean much like PS360 versions now where there are at least identical. However, if it does far exceed specs of PS360 as well as has new enhanced features, it may actually be the noticeably superior version of any game.

This is what I hope it is as I ony want to own one game console. While I do enjoy my PS3 overall, had Wii been up to snuff and had all the same games, I would have just bought a cheap bluray player.

Nintendo is all I really want as I must have Zelda and Metroid.

I stated this in another thread, and I still stand by it. Either these have to be bargain price with the same content, or full price with considerable new content (I mean the loads of stuff the PS2 version of RE4 got, not the sparse stuff Scarface and The Godfather got on the Wii). Otherwise these ports will be selling to people who either got them on the other systems, or wanted them for the Wii itself (don't give me any "just buy it for those systems" line, as the customers are not going to be told what to do).

Why not? It will be able to run the engines efficiently.