Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Gullemot stated in an interview with Polygon that Ubisoft has several finished games for Nintendo’s Wii U console, in fact they are finished six months ago, but they are waiting for the right time to launch them or to be more clear, they are waiting for the Wii U’s system’s install base to grow to an adequate level according to Ubisoft’s standards. A couple of these games were mentioned by name and they were Watch Dogs and Just Dance.
“We did adapt the number of products to the level of quantities that the machine did,” he said “So we will have Just Dance again which is well suited for the machine. We’ll have Watch Dogs. We have another couple of products that we are waiting to launch, specifically we have one game that we wait for the machine to be more mass market to launch.”
“One have been done for six months. It’s on the shelf, waiting for more families to have the console” he continued.
He also didn’t set a decisive target for their desired Wii U sales in order to launch these games but he said that they need “the sales to increase so it becomes more and more mass market then we will have the volume that will justify massive marketing and TV marketing.”
As of March 31, the Wii U console has sold over 6.17 million systems with Mario Kart 8 recently grabbing the title of the system’s fastest-selling game with 1.2 million units sold in its first weekend after release.
Tell us what you think of Ubisoft’s decision to delay their releases for more console sales. Do they need to release it now ? Are they taking the right decision ?
