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Proxy-Pie on 04 November 2013

The Nintendo Wii U is certainly not living up to the success its predecessor. Sales are weak, support is weak, and first-party exclusives are few and far between. Despite all this, Ubisoft have continued to fully support  the Nintendo Wii U by releasing a plethora of AAA games on the console. When rumors started surfacing that Ubisoft may be discontinuing their support for the Nintendo Wii U things got tense. We've reached out to Ubisoft and their comments can put Nintendo fans at ease.

Earlier last month Emily Rogers, staff writer at Dromble and Nintendo Force, tweeted to her followers that if Nintendo fans want to continue seeing Ubisoft games released on the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS that they better start buying their games. This tweet sparked controversy and caused rumors to spread about Ubisoft imminently dropping support for Nintendo.

We reached out to Ubisoft and they were happy to snuff this rumor:

“Ubisoft has a long-standing relationship with Nintendo. Most recently this has been reinforced by our varied and high-quality line-up for Wii U, with big titles including Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, Just Dance 2014, Rayman Legends, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist already released and Watch Dogs on the way.”

Ubisoft are number one when it comes to supporting all gaming consoles, both home and portable systems, and the Nintendo Wii U is no exception. Ubisoft exclusively developed ZombiU specifically for the Nintendo Wii U's launch. ZombiU is an innovative Nintendo Wii U game that truly showcases the potential of the console, and, alhough ZombiU has a somewhat mixed reception, most critics agree that ZombiU is one of the few true survival horror games available on console today.

 

Nintendo Wii U owners can also look forward to the release of one of Ubisoft's most anticipated video-games, Watch_Dogs, which is slated for a early 2014 release. Watch_Dogs on the Wii U be an entirely unique experience on the Wii U when using the game-pad.

source: http://eskimopress.com/news/games/item/430-ubisoft-snuff-rumors-of-discontinuing-nintendo-support



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C0LINx on 04 November 2013

Doesn't really say much about future support.



Anfebious on 04 November 2013

Is this good news?



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eFKac on 04 November 2013

That's not really very convincing. They basically pulled a pure PR statement about long time relationship, yada, yada. And named games that are out will be out shortly and Watch Dogs which was annouced to be on the Wii U long time ago, no word on new projects.



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Kresnik on 04 November 2013

That's good. It's better they say that than say nothing.

But also, they're not going to say nothing. Their announced support for the system hasn't dried up yet (AC4 is on the way and Watch Dogs is next year). They're not going to announce withdrawal of support at this point; if they were going to. They'd wait until after Watch Dogs.

I don't think they will though. Maybe just be more selective in future.



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impertinence on 04 November 2013

I just bought an Assassins Creed game (IV) for the Wii U. Never really been that high on the series but got into some extra cash so I decided to support a third party that at least tries somewhat with a purchase. I think the game is ok, better than I expected, but the real upside is that my kids really love it.

Maybe I'll buy another game from them before I get Watch_Dogs to reward them for their efforts.



Purple on 04 November 2013

That's confirmation they've pulled support.

EA made the exact same press release talking about Need For Speed and Fifa.



kekrot on 04 November 2013

I bought Rayman Legends for Wii U, shame it hasn't sold well, pretty good game. I'm also planning to buy Watch Dogs and maybe AC4 when it gets released here. And I bought ZombiU as a gift for a friend, so I have been supporting them.. a little. I hope if the Wii U catches some momentum through the holiday and next year with MK and SSB, these rumours will fade.



Yep.

Pavolink on 04 November 2013

Wouldn't surprise me. Nintendo stopped support a month after launch.



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Skeeuk on 04 November 2013

this isn't sounding good, I predict this year will be the final year that publishers offer full game support to Wiiu.

didn't ea say something similar about a long standing relationship?



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