Ubisoft's sitting mighty fine

[IsawYoshi]

pokoko said:

IsawYoshi said:

pokoko said:
It wasn't that long ago that some Nintendo fans were talking about boycotting the next Rayman game. I guess the EA situation calmed that kind of sentiment down pretty swiftly.

I'm not going to buy Rayman, but I were going to. I was going to buy it cause there were no other titles to play at the time. At the timeframe it will release now, I will have other stuff to play, like Splinter Cell Blacklist and the wind waker. It's a sad truth, but Ubi lost a lot of Wii U sales on that one.  

I understand what you're saying, and I have no problem with someone not buying Rayman because of actual reasons, as opposed to that silly boycott thing, but I doubt Ubisoft missed out on many sales, relatively speaking.  As opposed to how much they would have had to spend on TWO marketing campaigns and separate shipping arrangements, my guess is that the Wii U version of Rayman would have generated a small profit.  By combining the launch of all the platforms, even if they missed some Wii U sales, they will probably come out ahead of what they would have seen with separate release dates.

There is also the rumor that Ubisoft wasn't happen with Nintendo in some way connected to the Rayman situation.  I'd bet that Ubisoft asked Nintendo to cover some of the costs of having an exclusive launch and got turned down.  If that's the case, then Nintendo fans should turn at least part of their anger toward Nintendo.

I was talking about just the Wii U sales. I do doubt that the wii u sales would have been more than on all systems combined now that it is a multiplat, but it actually might have been possible, considering that Wii U owners couldn't exactly  swim in games at the time, and many would have bought whatever good someone would have thrown at them. I have a fear that Legends might drown on every platform, but we'll have to wait and see.