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Ubisoft is leaving the Wii and DS because consumers stopped buying their garbage. Instead of making quality games, they run to the HD consoles looking for a savior. I do not know if this will work for them. Capcom was once reaping profits from the HD twins but they hit a roadblock and are now in the process of restructuring. If this is the path that Ubisoft wants to take then they better have a handy back up plan.

Link to Capcoms financial woes.

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e091222a.html



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DnE said:

And the list of Ubisoft 2009 Wii titles:

04th Dec 09 - (0.00m) : Sleepover Party
01st Dec 09 - (0.19m) : James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
24th Nov 09 - (0.01m) : Cook Wars
24th Nov 09 - (0.28m) : Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy
17th Nov 09 - (0.64m) : Just Dance
10th Nov 09 - (0.03m) : Team Elimination Games
08th Nov 09 - (0.08m) : Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage
06th Nov 09 - (0.00m) : Knockout Party
03rd Nov 09 - (0.02m) : Academy of Champions: Soccer
03rd Nov 09 - (0.58m) : Rabbids Go Home
27th Oct 09 - (0.10m) : CSI: Deadly Intent
27th Oct 09 - (0.05m) : Monster 4x4: Stunt Racer
27th Oct 09 - (0.18m) : Press Your Luck 2010 Edition
29th Sep 09 - (0.27m) : Family Feud 2010
22nd Sep 09 - (0.18m) : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
22nd Sep 09 - (0.08m) : The Price Is Right 2010 Edition
22nd Sep 09 - (0.10m) : Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
15th Sep 09 - (0.05m) : Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
17th Jul 09 - (0.21m) : Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout (Others sales)
03rd Jul 09 - (0.14m) : Summer Sports 2: Island Sports Party
23rd Jun 09 - (0.06m) : Dawn of Discovery
27th Mar 09 - (0.00m) : World Sports Party
25th Mar 09 - (0.55m) : Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout
24th Mar 09 - (0.15m) : Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templars - The Director's Cut
19th Mar 09 - (0.00m) : No More Heroes / Red Steel
10th Mar 09 - (0.05m) : Vacation Sports
04th Mar 09 - (0.04m) : Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game
03rd Mar 09 - (0.15m) : Six Flags Fun Park
05th Feb 09 - (0.12m) : Tenchu: Shadow Assassins

03rd Feb 09 - (0.12m) : Imagine: Fashion Party

 

 

So, what from that list should have been bigger?

 

I suppose Tenchu could have done better, though it wasn't much of a hit with critics either, and the XBox iteration probably hurt it's chances.

Avatar underperformed in general.

Shaun White was supposedly terrible, did they expect it to sell?

I guess they expected more from the Turtles Smash Bros. clone, I haven't heard that was very good either.

Am I missing something?

 

Edit: Sorry, this isn't a response to the quoted poster, in case I cause confusion.



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Kenology said:
Can't wait to see their financial statement next year after this refocusing...


And what will you say or anyone else bashing this move if they post a profit next year?  



OMFG DRIVER!!! That's awesome! I don't care about anything else now that I see driver! Its a miracle.



libellule said:
a french Ubisoft guy was talking

about Natal :

we have 10 games in dev. We got it early, we are in advance over others dev.

about the Wand :

huh ... dont know.

No worries mate: they promised the Wii similar levels of support (8 games announced at launch).

GianCarmen said:
They just dont get it. I remember when they said that they plan on having nintendo quality games.

 Assassin's Creed 2 is awesome.

BrandonM said:
Shoulda released

Imagine Sales Profit

 

patjuan32 said:
Ubisoft is leaving the Wii and DS because consumers stopped buying their garbage. Instead of making quality games, they run to the HD consoles looking for a savior. I do not know if this will work for them. Capcom was once reaping profits from the HD twins but they hit a roadblock and are now in the process of restructuring. If this is the path that Ubisoft wants to take then they better have a handy back up plan.

Link to Capcoms financial woes.

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e091222a.html

 

Vetteman94 said:
Kenology said:
Can't wait to see their financial statement next year after this refocusing...


And what will you say or anyone else bashing this move if they post a profit next year?  

 That they actually waited to see the financial statement next year after this refocusing.



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Chairman-Mao said:
OMFG DRIVER!!! That's awesome! I don't care about anything else now that I see driver! Its a miracle.

Yeah, but come on, it's going to be a weak GTA clone. I just wish they'd realize why the original sold so well and go back to that, drop the on foot stuff.



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www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm

It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.

THIS IS SHOCKING NEWS!!!!!

28 IMAGINE DS GAMES IS NOT ENUF!!!!

HOW CAN THEY CRY ABOUT THESE GAMES NOT SELLING????



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Gamerace said:

WOW... Shaun White really tanked this year.

The Wii audience is very 'fadish'. You have to grab them with something interesting but then do something completely different the next year. Yearly sequels just don't work well on Wii. People will just buy the older, cheaper title. And what was novel once, isn't a second time.

Surprised no one really used WM+ (except EA) to sell games.


You don't see Nintendo coming out with SMG2, Zelda Wii 2, Metroid Wii 2, Endless Ocean 2... oh... snap.

But seriously, it'll work fine with the Nintendo core but not the casuals. NSMBW & Mario Kart should never get a sequel this gen.

Two things about Nintendo's Wii sequels:

1. They never come out just a year after the last game.

2. They always pack in enough new content/features/gameplay changes to justify a new purchase.

I agree that NSMBWii and MKWii shouldn't get a sequel this gen, but Wii Sports and Wii Fit did get sequels, because Nintendo had enough new material to justify a new entry in these franchises.

Shaun White had only one new feature this year: Create a trick. That's it. That's the only reason to buy it over last year's. If they had skipped a year, added some more features and content, and come back in 2010 with some serious reasons to upgrade, people might have bought it.

Publishers have a strange desire to turn every franchise into an annual release like Madden, but a franchise needs very special conditions to be able to actually pull off annual releases. Attempting to do it with most games will saturate demand, cut off long-tail sales, and drive down launches. You can see how the music genre is getting smothered by too many releases.

The only successful annual release franchise outside of sports games (which only sell annually due to enthusiasm for the sports franchise, not something which will sell a snowboarding game) has been Call of Duty. Activision did it by alternating the setting of CoD and giving two different developers a two-year development cycle so that they could make enough new content to justify an annual purchase. Oh, and CoD happens to be a franchise in one of the most popular genres around today.

Time to give up on the Madden dream, publishers.



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Demotruk said:
DnE said:

And the list of Ubisoft 2009 Wii titles:

 

So, what from that list should have been bigger?

 

I suppose Tenchu could have done better, though it wasn't much of a hit with critics either, and the XBox iteration probably hurt it's chances.

Avatar underperformed in general.

Shaun White was supposedly terrible, did they expect it to sell?

I guess they expected more from the Turtles Smash Bros. clone, I haven't heard that was very good either.

Am I missing something?

 

Edit: Sorry, this isn't a response to the quoted poster, in case I cause confusion.

No problem I only put it up to make sure people had the facts on the exact games they released ;)

It is scary when you look at the games by the major publishers on the wii.



@ famoursringo, can I point out it was IW who wanted to do the modern setting don't give Activision any credit, they have enough money already