Watch Dogs shifts almost no copies on its Wii U launch in UK

[S.Peelman]

I'd like to know what Ubisoft were actually expecting to happen.

This is without a doubt, the single biggest case of "sending out to die" on WiiU yet. Even bigger than say Mass Effect 3 was (which pains me to say, because I like Ubisoft a whole lot more than EA).

This is likely the stupidest business decision they've ever made, when they should've either cancelled the game or hired three extra guys to get it out in time. Who's supposed to still buy this for full price with less content half a year late? Sure even if it was out at the same time as the other version it still wouldn't have sold much, but surely better than now and canceling would have saved them money. Then what do they do? They make a bad situation even worse by alienating whatever fanbase and goodwill they had left after being untrustworthy in the past by making stupid statements that serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

Also, I'm baffled how there's actually people here trying to pin this on Nintendo and it's installed base.

Against all odds, I'm still interested in this game. I've retired my PS3 since some time ago, I won't be getting any games for that system anymore, so if I get this game it will be on WiiU. There's of course absolutely no reason to get it now, so it'll have to wait until it's €10 before I'd consider the purchase.

Ubisoft was once my 'favorite' 3rd party publisher (if there is such a thing, they've all been dubious since the beginning of time) across all platforms, but they haven't done themselves much good this year. Maybe they should stop wasting their time on 'Anno Online' and give me a new DRM free Anno game, to win me back some confidence.