Emily Rogers: Ubisoft won't comment on Wii U version of Watch Dogs

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MarcellusMighty said:


So, screw Watch Dogs and Ubisoft. I'm glad they didn't act like jerks, but even they were foolish about putting Rayman on consoles where no one buys Rayman when they would have shot up Wii U sales and their own game sales by being exclusive. I'm tired of this, guys. I'm just tired of it. There's no reason for it, than pure greed and bias. Whatever happens to Watch Dogs, happens. Whatever. I don't care anymore.

Bit about Rayman is just objectively untrue according to Rayman Origins:

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Rayman Origins	PS3	2011	Platform	Ubisoft	0.30	0.42	0.01	0.13	0.87
2	Rayman Origins	X360	2011	Platform	Ubisoft	0.33	0.29	0.00	0.07	0.69
3	Rayman Origins	Wii	2011	Platform	Ubisoft	0.19	0.24	0.00	0.06	0.49
4	Rayman Origins	PSV	2012	Platform	Ubisoft	0.10	0.27	0.00	0.04	0.41
5	Rayman Origins	3DS	2012	Platform	Ubisoft	0.02	0.05	0.00	0.01	0.08
6	Rayman Origins	PC	2012	Platform	Ubisoft	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.01	0.05
7	Rayman Origins	PC	2012	Platform	Ubisoft	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	0.95	1.31	0.01	0.32	2.58

Honestly I was more surprised that Rayman was ever exclusive than that it went multiplat.  And I think you put too much stock into things being exclusive.  It just isn't going to happen when the console is doing as poorly as it is.  They aren't going to get top dollar exclusive efforts.  It doesn't make any sense to do that on a platform that seems to be suffering.  Just like I don't expect Monster Hunter to show up on Vita, and I'm not going to stop buying all third party games because of it.