Ubisoft has other games in the works for NX besides Just Dance 2017

If there’s one thing you can say about Ubisoft, it’s that they like that to be there on launch. The NX will be no exception with the company’s CEO, Yves Guillemot confirmed to Gamespot that they have other games coming out the system, besides the already announced Just Dance 2017.

We kind of presumed that already, Ubisoft love their console launches. Don’t take my word for it though, here’s what Guillemot had to say in the same interview with Gamespot.

“The new Nintendo [console] is a fantastic machine. It’s really a new approach, it’s really Nintendo, [which is] coming with something new again. We love it.

We always take disruptions on the positive side. We think each time that it’s an opportunity for our creators to take more risks. When a machine is installed, there are a certain number of brands that take up the time of players, so they’re going to buy the next Assassin’s Creed or Call of Duty.

Even if they say, ‘I’m interested in what you’re doing,’ at the end of the day they first buy what they know, then go somewhere else. When they change machines, they consider that it is better to try what has been done for that machine. This gives us an opportunity to totally change an IP that we have done before, or to create new experiences and new IPs.

What we see is, players are more open when new hardware is coming. So we have the chance to come with something we have never done before, because we know that if we are the first there, people will try our game and maybe we’ll be able to get into that new genre. As our people wanted to do a game like ZombiU, they were happy they could just use the Wii U to do it.For us, a machine is a tool of expression, but when everything become stable it’s less open to innovation. We always want innovation.

However, if you try something a little new and it’s not perfect, you come back quickly to what you know and works. As a gamer, if you change to new hardware, you have no references, so you’re looking at what people are saying are [the best games] and then trying them. But if you have an [established] machine and there’s all the experiences you know on there already, you know you’re going to miss some of those to try something new, so you’re less inclined. For us, we know opportunities to try something new are a lot more rewarding when it’s a new machine.”

If you’ve heard Guillemot say ‘fantastic’ before that’s because it’s not the first time he’s referred to new Nintendo hardware as it. Just five years ago he called the ‘Project Cafe’ the code-name for the Wii U “a fantastic platform,” and predicted “it will be extremely successful”.

Hopefully that’s not some kind of curse.