| RolStoppable said: My point was never that Ubisoft is not backing the Wii U, I was talking about full support (due to this thread's title). Ubisoft has been a major multiplatform publisher for a long time now, so full support from them would equate to all their big games coming to a system. Which is evidently not the case, based on the currently available information. And this currently available information sends the message (intentionally or not) that the Wii U might be missing out on a lot of games in the future. It's doubly troubling when you consider that Ubisoft is currently the third party publisher who supports the Wii U the most. The first step to success is to show up. This is so self-explanatory that even the dumbest businessmen should be able to understand this concept. With so many third party publishers holding off from releasing Wii U versions of their big games instead of getting them ready to launch on the same day as the other console versions, it looks pretty clear that they do not want to succeed. Wait and see how the Wii U launch wave of games performs. If it does well, release late ports of your games. Late ports aren't going to sell well, so you can justify your lack of initial action by pointing to the low sales of your late ports. Subsequently, you have all the justification you need to drop the Wii U altogether once it's time to move on to PS4/720 development, even though today's engines are scalable and thus would enable a smooth porting process even if there were big hardware differences between PS4/720 and the Wii U. However, if the games were all on the Wii U from the start, the gamers would be there too. And as long as the games kept coming, the gamers would keep buying. It's not rocket science to establish a base that keeps buying your games, but it doesn't look like third parties are going to take the necessary steps to find success on the Wii U. Some, like Ubisoft and Activision, are at least making some efforts, but others don't seem to be interested at all. |
@bold. And Ubisoft is one to know, they always say that they are there at launch because it is an important part of establishing your base on a console in its lifecycle.
I'd hate to say I agree with you.
EDIT: Again tho Rol, the expectation to this is that Nintendo lead the platform into that market from a SW perspective. They're defo doing it with the U from a marketting and reaching out to 3rd parties point of view, but they are not leading the pack in their software offerings to cater to the markets that those 4 games cater to.
