Ubisoft used to love the Wii U, they supported it pretty well at launch and then things went sour. They famously delayed Rayman Legends to release it on more consoles, we missed out on Assassin’s Creed DLC, they’re sitting on a completed Wii U game and now they’ve all but given up on the console.
Speaking with Game Informer, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has given an update on the companies Wii U support – well what’s left of it.
Despite the fact that there is a ‘last generation’ Assissin’s Creed game this year on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 there will be no more Creed titles on the console.
[quote]It’s very simple. What we see is that Nintendo customers don’t buy Assassin’s Creed. Last year, we sold in very small numbers.
What we see is that they are very interested in Just Dance, very interested by other kinds of games. So what we are trying to do is to focus more on the types of games they are interested in.
Watch Dogs is coming to Wii U. It will be the only mature game we publish on it.[/quote]
Ubisoft isn’t completely in the wrong here, their sales on Nintendo platforms make up only a very small amount of their profit. Most of that profit was from the Just Dance titles on the Wii as well, now that’s dried up and with the Wii U under-performing it’s hard to make a business case.
Watch Dogs will be the last ‘hardcore’, if you want to put it that way, game on the Wii U – whenever that eventually does get released.
So readers, why didn’t you buy Assassin’s Creed on Wii U?
See how much you did, or didn't play things.