LITB Gaming News – Ubisoft makes shitty Wii titles, upset shitty Wii titles don’t sell.
Kotaku reports that during Ubisoft’s full first-half 2009-2010 financial results briefing today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that while big titles from Ubisoft like Assassin’s Creed 2 helped the company out considerably on the financial side of things, all of their “Nintendo-like quality” games released over the past few years have actually hurt the company more than help it.
Thanks to this post by NeoGaffer grandjedi 6 you can see the actual journey Ubisoft took from an interesting start with the system during it’s launch, and see the gradual downward spiral as more and more of those quality titles were coming out. Right around the time it seems when Ubisoft declared that they take the money from the Wii titles they were making money off of and use the money to fund games for the HD consoles. But they still came out with a lot of Wii titles since then! A….a lot of them. A lot of, crap.
Thanks to IGN, you can actually see the entire catalog of Ubisoft’s Wii efforts here.
Their efforts.
Wii
1701 A.D.
Academy of Champions Soccer
American Popstar: Road to Celebrity
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
Arthur and the Two Worlds War
Avatar: The Game
Avatar: The Game (Limited Edition)
Babysitting Party
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars — The Director’s Cut
Brothers in Arms: Double Time
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Deadly Intent
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cook Wars
Cosmic Family
Cranium Kabookii
Dawn of Discovery
Dogz 2008
Driver: Parallel Lines
Eden
Emergency Heroes
Family Fest Presents Circus Games — 20 Big Top Classics!
Family Fest Presents Movie Games
Family Feud: 2010 Edition
Far Cry Vengeance
GT Pro Series
GT Pro Series (with Racing Wheel)
Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout
Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game
Hell’s Kitchen
Heroes
Imagine: Fashion Party
Imagine: Party Babyz
Just Dance
Killing Day
Monster 4X4 World Circuit (standard edition)
Monster 4X4 World Circuit (with Racing Wheel)
Monster 4×4: Stunt Racer
Monster 4×4: Stunt Racer (with Racing Wheel)
My Fitness Coach
My French Coach
My Spanish Coach
My Word Coach
Nitrobike
No More Heroes
No More Heroes / Red Steel — 2 Games, One Low Price
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Open Season
Petz Rescue: Endangered Island
Petz Rescue: Wildlife Vet
Petz Sports
Petz: Catz 2
Petz: Crazy Monkeyz
Petz: Dogz 2
Petz: Horse Club
Petz: Horsez 2
Press Your Luck: 2010 Edition
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
Protöthea
Rabbids Go Home
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Red Steel
Red Steel 2
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip (Target Edition)
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage
Spelling Spree!
Sports Party
Surf’s Up
TMNT
Team Elimination Games
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
The Adventures of TinTin
The Dog Island
The Price Is Right (2008)
The Price is Right: 2010 Edition
Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas / Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter — 2 Games, One Low Price
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Vacation Sports
Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
Wordfish
Your Shape
EFFORTS
Note that some of those titles were actually canceled and haven’t been removed from the above list.
However, yes Petz: Crazy Monkeyz is an actual title they released to market.
– The Ben