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HappySqurriel on 06 July 2008
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noname2200 said:

As we all know by now, Ubisoft's name is currently mud in the minds of most Nintendo fans. This is understandable after Ubidays, and in light of some recent comments by Ubisoft executives and employees. But while updating the Nintendo E3 thread, I noticed something I hadn't anticipated: it's possible that Ubisoft is actually putting some effort into their Nintendo titles, as we'll see at E3.

Granted that My Weight Loss Coach and the Stop Smoking game are hardly what most of us think of when we hear "games", but they're both actually pretty intriguing concepts that can help a person in real life, which is why I think Reggie said Ubisoft "gets" the DS.

On the Wii front, they also seem to be doing more than I first suspected. Mind you, we'll have to see how Prince of Persia turns out, and Red Steel 2 (hopefully) won't show this year, but the Rabbids team actually seems to enjoy what they're doing, and even Dogz 2008 doesn't seem to be shovelware, as they've assigned the game to Ubisoft Montreal (a top-tier team who made Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, and other Ubisoft money machines).

I don't think I'll personally be interested in Dogz, or Weight Loss, or the smoking game, but it's beginning to seem like Ubisoft hasn't completely neglected Nintendo just yet (although their PR machine is terrible). So what are your thoughts?

Personally, I'm not upset with Ubisoft because they're releasing a different type of game for the Wii than they're releasing for the XBox 360 or PS3; afterall that is an understandable decision based on their beliefs about the market (which I personally disagree with). I am upset with Ubisoft because they were claiming that they were going to deliver Nintendo quality game experiences on the Wii, and then they release games which are particularly bad quality (for a genre known for bad quality games) and fail to market any decent game they release for the Wii.

To a certain extent it is like watching someone who is performing a self destructive behavior (doing drugs, gambling or over-eating) who blames everyone else for their problem and fails to take the basic steps to fix it regardless of how much they talk about it.