Go Ubi go!

Now that's sad...Ubisoft doesn't like the Wii, they are using it. Is there anything us gamers can do to prevent this from happening. I hope their strategy fails.

Meh. Doesn't mean they won't still develop big titles for the Wii. Nitrobike is looking pretty good and I'm sure Red Steel 2 will get the time and care the first one didn't.

I've seen that before. Taking from the "cash cow" and investing it in future projects that won't help keep the cash cow going. It's a symptom of the management believing that there is no future in the "cash cow".

 it wont, Ubi makes a game that costs then 200k they will easily make that back. 

I don't think they're referring to Red Steel when they say "casual games market". 

All is fine and dandy with me, as long as they remember the Wii is also very capable of doing traditional, non-casual games. 

I know the feeling... for quite some time....

Guys, this is just like Hollywood. Think "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "Day After Tomorrow" are the things that studios make money off of?

No, they make money of cheap movies like "Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Knocked Up". Studios like making huge blockbuster movies that bring the company lots of prestige, but between CGI costs, advertising budgets, and paying AAA actors, those movies barely break even. Studios make their money on those cheap comedy movies and use the profit to fund huge budget action movies.

Same with game studios, obviously Crysis and Assassin's Creed are games you want associated with your company. People want to make these games and have them on their resumès. Does it matter that they will only sell 1/10th that of Pokemon? Not really, its all in prestige, companies like Ubisoft want to be able to walk into a conference and say "Look at this shiny new action game!" rather than say "Look at this puzzle game for the DS, it looks like something a budget studio made but it will sell."

If people take the time to read the whole artical.

"Guillemot suggested that a casual game costs only between €1 million and €4 million ($1.4m to $5.4m) to develop, depending on the number of platforms. By comparison he quoted a figure of between €5 million and €10 million ($6.8m to $13.6m) for a traditional Wii game and €10 million to €20 million ($13.6m to $27.1m) for an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 title"

Your traditional wii games are not what is referring to when he says causal games. Most likley xboxlive, wii mini games, ps3 network games. Also DS..

In addition, he states they help Finace the more expensive projects. NOT that they lose money on them. More causal games made = more $ and the ability to develope more expensive games at the same time.

I'll be happy so long as they make a real Rayman platformer for the Wii at some point.