Ubisoft: Wii Don't Care

Jun 01 2008

Ubisoft: Wii Don’t Care

Ubisoft Are Going About It The Wrong Way A recent article over on Kotaku has revealed deeply embedded opinions within Ubisoft HQ. The clumsy employee who dropped this comment is (possibly was by now) a moderator over at the Ubisoft forums - in sharp response to one member’s well-founded rant about how…

“[The Wii] gets no new Core-titles and when we get some like Shaun White Snowboarding it looks worse than SSX on the Cube. Doesn’t really look like Ubisoft is trying to put some effort in it.”

In response to this member’s thoughts, an angry Ubisoft moderator decided to bite back with the claim that…

“Parents who are buying a console for their children do not really care about Prince of Persia, Rainbow Six or Far Cry on the box, they want games that are going to be good for their children and not get them in the local newspaper”

This may be more accurately read as “You Wii owners aren’t mature enough to play the big boy’s games”. The rep then has the nerve to claim that “Amazing new AAA games” do not sell very well on the Wii. I’m guessing that means that the rubbish, old ZZZ games Ubisoft keep churning out go down a treat then.

Ubisoft are taking a really bad approach to this, It makes me glad I sold my Wii if this is how publishers are going to treat it. They seem to have become the new EA in unoriginality (while EA seem to be following in Valve’s footsteps when it comes to increasing innovation and quality). They could also be comparable to Atari in terms of unashamedly low quality titles (hello Red Steel, Ninjabread man and co).

Angry? Wii Owner? Ubisoft Employee?

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