Yakuzaice on 08 February 2013
| d21lewis said: Not gonna bother signing. They knew how excited people were for the game. The knew about the positive feedback from the demo. All that did was swell Ubisoft's ego into thinking that this game could compete with the big boys. It will still be a great game, I'm sure. It's just destined to be another "Beyond Good and Evil" or worse yet, another "Rayman Origins" if it releases so close to Christmas. |
They also knew pre-order numbers, sales of their Wii U games, Wii U sales, and demo downloads. Considering Origins sold a lot better than Beyond Good and Evil, I'm not sure how that'd be worse. Either way, both probably sold better than an exclusive Wii U release of Legends would.
I think the biggest reason is the poor Wii U sales have casused retailers to be averse to ordering much Wii U software. When stores are still selling through stock from before Christmas, and selling just handful of software each week, they aren't going to order hundreds of thousands of copies of Rayman. Ubisoft is probably hoping Nintendo turns it around by September and the PS3/360 sales will just be a bonus.
