I enjoyed Watchdogs on Wii U, but Ubisoft has cut corners and price gouged gamers for years. Eventually it catches up....until it doesn't.

Ubisoft deservers to close down along with all third party publishers.

Enough layoffs have happened already. We need better leadership and practices. Not more layoffs.

I thought it was cool when they published Grandia II on Dreamcast and No More Heroes II on Wii.  Red Steel II was cool. ACII was great.  I don't even think they are fast food anymore but discount frozen food. Store-brand frozen pizza. mmmm, the taste of cardboard and chemicals.

IMO Half-Life 2 is the best Ubisoft game out there. Everything after that pales in comparison.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Half Life 2? Yeah sure Don't forget Sly Cooper and Halo. Final Fantasy IX is the best Ubisoft game!

Yeah I'd be lying if I said there was nothing from them I enjoyed; their 7th gen output was actually pretty good with the likes of Red Steel 2, Splinter Cell Conviction/Blacklist, Rayman Origins/Legends, Assassin's Creed 1 through to 4, Far Cry 2/3/4, No More Heroes 2, etc.

Problem is, a formula that was fresh and exciting two generations ago has now been copy-pasted for so long it feels tired.

All third party publishers? So Take Two, EA, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, NetEase Games, Tencent Games, THQ Nordic, 505 Games, Devolver Digital, Epic Games, Focus Entertainment, Konami, Paradox Interactive, Team 17, Warner Bros Interactive, Sega, Deep Silver, etc...? Lol.

I know that you likely meant "only the big western publishers" but as a thought experiment I'd suggest you think about how devastating for the videogame industry it would be when at least 59,000 people are laid off in the industry and when some of the biggest IPs in the industry vanish overnight, the same IPs which are played by millions, push console sales and convince investors to invest in the industry.

Like I'm a Nintendo guy and honestly I (currently half, at other times more than half) joke that we wouldn't notice if they all shut down, but maybe don't shut everyone else down. Maybe have Nintendo and Sony (and maybe Valve) eat them, but shut down......er, no.

Seems like 2/3 of these "big graphics showcase" games end up underperforming sales wise. Pretty sure that Avatar game they made with huge emphasis on graphics also underperformed.

Can't even sell games with an Avatar + Star Wars license + big graphics.

Even the Metacritic is not that bad for this game, 76% is OK. 

Rough time to be in the big budget game space, a lot of these titles are underperforming and they probably have sky high budgets and dev cycles over 5 years.