Ubisoft CEO: “Nintendo has to perform this year, otherwise they will have less games”

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padib said:

Arcturus said:

Read his comment. He's not asking Nintendo to do anything. He's simply saying that if his company is to continue investing in the WiiU, the WiiU will have to perform better than it currently is.

o_O He's holding a game from releasing (basically a hostage of sorts) and saying "we won't release it until Nintendo does better".

So, isn't that making demands?

I agree he's not explicitely demanding, but the basic message is a demand.

Have you considered he's simply sending message to Nintendo that since their AAA game (ACIV) had less than 3% attach on their console and even Rayman had only around 5%, Ubi needs much, much more WiiU users to make their games profitable?

Nintendo isn't forced to listen to Ubi (or any other 3rd party), but, likewise, Ubi is not obligated to publish anything on WiiU.