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TomaTito on 25 November 2014

I'll reiterate. Have there been any UK reviews yet?



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VXIII on 25 November 2014

In UK, where Knack sold more than Mario 3D World once upon a time.... Yeah



the_dengle on 25 November 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Nintendo's installed base has been trained for twenty years to look outside of Nintendo for third party.

Actually I have been trained for ten years not to look for third party at all.



VXIII on 25 November 2014
KLXVER said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Tachikoma said:
its as much the fact that nintendo fans rarely buy third party games as it is the delay / price.

If it launched alongside the ps4/xbo version it would have still bombed.


Exactly. It barely matters how late or early it launched.


Rayman Legends sold better on the WiiU...
1 Rayman Legends PS3 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.10 0.24 0.00 0.13 0.47
2 Rayman Legends WiiU 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.17 0.17 0.02 0.04 0.39
3 Rayman Legends PS4 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.06 0.16 0.00 0.09 0.32
4 Rayman Legends X360 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.12 0.15 0.00 0.03 0.30
5 Rayman Legends XOne 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.05 0.05 0.00 0.01 0.10
6 Rayman Legends PSV 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.03 0.08

Also, 2014 release for PS4, but still managed to sell almost as good ( or as bad ).



KLXVER on 25 November 2014
VXIII said:

 


Rayman Legends sold better on the WiiU...
1 Rayman Legends PS3 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.10 0.24 0.00 0.13 0.47
2 Rayman Legends WiiU 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.17 0.17 0.02 0.04 0.39
3 Rayman Legends PS4 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.06 0.16 0.00 0.09 0.32
4 Rayman Legends X360 2013 Platform Ubisoft 0.12 0.15 0.00 0.03 0.30
5 Rayman Legends XOne 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.05 0.05 0.00 0.01 0.10
6 Rayman Legends PSV 2014 Platform Ubisoft 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.03 0.08

Also, 2014 release for PS4, but still managed to sell almost as good ( or as bad ).


Well I stand corrected.



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HyrulianScrolls on 25 November 2014

Ubisoft had a devious plan with this all along, I guarantee it. That plan was to make sure that by the time they released Watch Dogs on Wii U all hype for the game would be gone, it would get lost in the Holiday release schedule, and still be a full price title. Why would they want it to bomb though you ask? So that they have an excuse to stop all third party support for the system. They'll use this as "proof" that gamers aren't interested in the Wii U so they shouldn't be either, when in reality it's only proof that they set one particular game up to fail on the system. What a disgraceful dev they've become. Ancel and Ubisoft Montpellier are literally the only decent thing left about them, and the only Ubisoft games I plan to support for the foreseeable future.



Conegamer on 25 November 2014

Doesn't really deserve any sales the way Ubi has treated the game. Must have been quite hellish having to finish it knowing this was gonna happen



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

mine on 25 November 2014

Nintendo should make a deal with Ubi to make WatchDogs Black-Friday digital-download bundle. Shouldn't cost them much per license and Ubi will get more money from that then selling normal copies via retail or eShop...



Seece on 25 November 2014

Watchdogs is a far far better game that Sonic Boom, they made the right BUSINESS decisions. It was imperitive the versions that would sell got the attention they needed, and the DLC .. well havn't we seen COD sell like 9 (I'm not making this up, wasn't it a suuuuper low number?) DLC?



 

mine on 25 November 2014

I still think that money would have been better spent on Red Steel 3. Red Steel 2 was great but its sales suffered from the hacked Wii...