Ubisoft praises Wii U, working on 2 core and 5 casual games
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot relayed high praise for Wii U during the company’s annual earnings call yesterday. Guillemot said that Ubisoft has “been extremely happy with the functionality of the console and the use”, adding it “can have a great success”.
He told listeners:
We have been extremely happy with the functionality of the console and the use.
What is really interesting is the fact that we have this tablet that allows us to bring totally new gameplay, and also brings the possibility to have a lot more social functionalities, because you can have now a screen to play asynchronously with your friends, to receive challenges and to really have a screen to communicate with your friends. That is going to help tremendously the experience in video games.
We feel that the more we grow, the more use we will have for social functions in our games. And the new gameplays – a lot have been invented in other platforms, so there are lots of new ideas that will come to console. So that will help to bring new games with good functionalities, and be very good in turn at usage.
So all this tells us that the machine can have a great success, because it will bring to families a good machine. And this will be for gamers but also for all the social games that are generally sold on the Wii. Going after those two types of populations will give a good chance for that machine to have a great success.
Ubisoft has seven games in the works for Wii U – two of which are core and five of which are casual. Thus far, Assassin’s Creed III, Killer Freaks from Outer Space, Avengers: Battle for Earth, and Ghost Recon Online have been officially announced. The company is also expected to release Rayman Legends, a Rabbids project, and Your Shape title for the console.
A new entry in Ubisoft’s Just Dance series hasn’t been revealed just yet, but chief financial officer Alan Martinez essentially confirmed that we’ll be seeing the IP on Wii U sometime in the future.
According to Martinez:
“Our goal is to continue to grow the brand with geographical expansion, and new platforms like Wii U.”
