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curl-6 on 09 February 2013
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pezus said:
curl-6 said:
pezus said:
curl-6 said:
Way to treat your developers and consumers, Ubi. You won't be getting any of my money after this farce. The game will flop, and deservedly so.

The game will sell way better than it would have as an exclusive. The WiiU version might sell worse because of people's "outrage" but it won't affect the other versions.

It's going up against GTAV on consoles whose owners don't like cartoon platformers as well as throwing Wii U sales out the window, instead of releasing in an empty timeslot on a console starved for games, with exclusivity on its side. I doubt it will sell "way more" than if it was exclusive, and it certainly won't sell "way more" than it would have if the Wii U one was launched now and then PS360 later.

Sadly, the game was doomed to flop from the beginning, look at Origins.


They like Rayman more than Nintendo gamers do...If you don't believe me, just look at Rol's wall. All they need to do is not release it the same week as GTA and they will be fine. It will have the holidays to sell, which is very good.

You doubt that it will sell way more on 3 consoles than on 1 that doesn't even have a userbase of 3m? Like I said before, it will at least triple its sales for Ubisoft. 

Origins sold 1.5m+ combined. I'd say that's pretty good for a probably low-budget game. ~1.3m of its sales came from PS3/360 (Wii: 420k, with a much larger userbase than WiiU has), so they clearly don't want to lose that.

I'm glad to see those Origins numbers are higher than I expected based on when I last checked, (I was disappointed in its sales, amazing game that deserved better) but come on, 1.5m for a mainstream 90+ rated game from a known franchise across Wii, PS3, and 360 isn't exactly a hit.

I very much doubt it will triple what its sales might have been. Wii U sales will be gutted now, and the number gained from PS3/360 won't be enough to triple what it could have been as an exclusive (people love to buy games because they're exclusive) opening in an all but uncontested market at the start of a console's lifespan. (PS3/360 are nearing the end of their cycle) In a holiday season likely to be dominated by the Xbox 720 and PS4 launches, and the likes of Battlefield 4 an Modern Warfare 4, Legends is going to be crushed.