RolStoppable said:
You can add this to your "Mistakes made in November" list. |
lol Rol UbiSoft Montreal is one of the worlds best game studios and UbiSoft makes some of the best IP's in gaming. Just because their support for Wii and DS has been less then stellar does not make them a horrible publisher. UbiSoft has stuck by Nintendo's side giving them support when many other publishers bailed whether it be supporting GameCube or GBA. UbiSoft may not have the greatest quality track record on Nintendo platforms but at least they supported Nintendo when barely anyone one else would.
UbiSoft is a kick ass publisher when it comes to games they released on 360/PS3. I can't think of many franchises that aren't top notch or close to being top notch (Excluding the Nintendo titles). RainBow6 will be yet another high quality game. UbiSoft makes some of the best games and I would easily classify them in the same range as EAGames or Activision (Quality wise) excluding Nintendo platforms again.
In fact I'd say UbiSoft's internal IP are better then EA's internal IP. If you take the licensed games out of the equation UbiSoft has more A class IP then EA does. Activision has slightly more successful IP but UbiSoft does have plenty of high quality IP.
UbiSoft is not a horrible publisher, though I must admit Ubi has admitted to developing cheap software on Wii to fund the development of games they really wanted to make on the HD platforms. Wii and DS were just used as bank accounts for the funding they needed to make the games they wanted on other platforms!
But if UbiSoft would put Ubi Montreal on WiiU and release even one or two exclusives they would be a major asset for Nintendo. In fact the support Nintendo is going to see right now for sure is already beneficial!
| ClaudeLv250 said: The question isn't whether Ubi is going to support Wii U, it's whether or not their support is going to turn into utter shit like it did with Wii and DS. They start the platform's life with promising but far from stellar games and ports and, despite how any of them perform, that supprot usually turns into a deluge of shovelware while all the "real" games go to every platform but Nintendo's. I can't envision at the moment why they wouldn't put their full support behind the Wii U since it can run all of their biggest titles, but every generation has given birth to a new excuse for 3rd parties to leave Nintendo platforms out in the cold. |
I can understand why in the future UbiSoft might divulge back into bringing cheaply made shovel ware and casual crap. Fact is UbiSoft did give Wii Splinter Cell and a shitty FarCry port. Ubi also gave Wii a Prince Of Persia title. None of these strong IP sold well at all they were outsold by Petz and such. With Wii it cost a lot of money to port a HD game it had to be built practically from the ground up and if the title sold under 200K or so it just isn't worth the investment.
I think while WiiU is ahead of the HD consoles and can recieve ports fairly cheap it will recieve almost every major title that PS3/360 get. But when Nex-Box and PS4 come out if they really end up being way more powerful then WiiU we could see a repeat of Wii. Essentially if sales of UbiSoft's core franchises aren't high enough then UbiSoft will stop porting them when the new more powerful consoles launch. We will be stuck with all the casual low budget high sales crap again.
In the end it really is both UbiSoft's fault and the consumers. UbiSofts hardcore titles on Wii were not all that bad. Splinter Cell was decent as was PoP. FarCry was a peice of shit but I still found it mildly enjoyable and better then some of the content we saw from other publishers and developers. If consumers had purchased Splinter Cell and PoP in large quantities we probably would have seen other more hardcore games released.
Also note Red Steel 2 bombed and it wasn't that bad of a game. I preferred the first game but the second was definitely good enough to warrant higher sales then it received!
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