Rumor: Ubisoft Might Be Making A Wii U MMO

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Assassin's Creed: The stabbening?

I'm sorry but you got me. Whale dong friend, whale dong.

OT: Well, that's... interesting. Kind of thought the MMO scheme worked best on PC but we'll see.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I'm amazed that the Wii U has the specs for an MMO. I'm not expecting it to be Guild Wars scale, but even so.

Well seeing as it's going to have roughly the same specs as an Xbox and most mmo's are designed to run on dual core systems with no video, this isn't too surprising.

Most of the performance issues with online games have to do with networking specs and connectivity of a machine, rather than technical specs. I'm still not convinced that console chipsets, least of all the wii U have sufficient capability in this space.

I suppose you're right. Networking wise consoles have been pretty poor in my opinion. Though they could do it, just quality wise might be meh. I heard DC Universe was poor on the PS3, not sure in what respect though seeing as I haven't played it.

DCU is a poor example in any case. It's terrible -_-. That and people seem to have this opinion that a PS3 is an immensely powerful machine. It was when it was released, now though, not so much.

 

[Innegativeion]

Assassin's Creed: The stabbening?

I'd play it /)^3^(\

 

[BrunDeign]

Wait isn't that Ghost Recon game sort of an MMO? I know they said that it was going to come to the WiiU.

Also the WiiU must have a really interesting online format to accompany a full-fledged MMO.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Sorry Ubisoft, I would consider buying this but apparentally I'm just a thieving PC gamer.
No, I am not going to let that go.

 

[Palademon]

I think an MMO using the WiiU's controller screen for abilites and inventory would work well.

 

[Buizel91]

Ubisoft?

Nintendo?

Wii-U?

My god man...POKEMON!

Ubisoft if you do this i will LOVE you forever!

 

[Buizel91]

Nintendo doesn't have a good track record in the least when it comes to anything online...let alone an MMO. This will be a major test to see if they can be taken seriously by the 'hardcore' gamers.

Hopefully they adopt the Guild Wars non-subscription model.

Nintendo doesn't but Ubisoft are no stranger to online gameplay.

If they push Nintendo in the right direction this could work very well.

Also captcha:

I have no idea what a tico is >.>

 

[Soxafloppin]

You could probably make an MMO from allot of Nintendos Franchises, Most of them have a lot of races in them. Mario, Zelda, even Metroid, but people have been crying out for a Pokemon MMO for years now, but Ubisoft? why Ubisoft?

 

[lRookiel]

Also captcha:

I have no idea what a tico is >.>

Tico: Brazilian Portuguese slang for "dick". Some times used when ironically addressing another man.

so its saying "Equipping your dick" XD Captcha is strange

OT: Im not going to get the Wii U, Im ok with my other handheld gaming devices (DS and iPod touch)

 

[CoL0sS]

Lost interest as soon as i read Ubisoft.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I'll remain cautiously optimistic. After all, should the MMO succeed on the WiiU (probably would as an F2P game), it'll get the attention of developers to create online games on the WiiU with as robust an infrastructure and netcode as the 360 or PS3.

Then again, Nintendo already have their own MMO type deal going on. Animal Crossing kinda counts as one in a way.

 

[VanityGirl]

Is anyone actually going to buy the WiiU on launch? Let's be honest here, the WiiU is still a massive mystery. We see more of the controller than we do the console itself.

That being said, Wii U would have to have some eye catcher in order to make it sell at launch. Would an MMO be a good thing? Meh. Only time will tell.

 

[Atmos Duality]

*laughs hysterically for 5 minutes*
*wipes tears from eyes*

Oh...oh man. That's the funniest shit I've read all day. The WiiU? MMO? UBISOFT??
Really, I have this mental image of Miis grinding their brains out all day in a cutesy Fisher Price-tonal blanderland.

*ahem*
Though in all seriousness, I don't see any technical reason this cannot work.
However, as with all MMOs (that I've tried anyway), it will probably feature nothing but boatloads of grind instead of gameplay.

 

[jacobythehedgehog]

This seems like a dumb idea. First off, who is actually going to buy a wii U. thirdly I looked up the specs for the wii u, I highly recommend you do that.

The wii you only has a better processor then the 360. Unless if Nintendo so called "Custom ATI Radeon Graphics card" is the in the one then in my $200 netbook, I mine as well say without a doubt, this game true graphical capabilities will not exceed higher then my PS3. I mean serious. Nintendo has no skill making a "Hi Rez game" which is why the new Zelda looks like sweaty monkey balls. The wii u's controller besides that doesn't look to comphy to say the least. I don't see the Wii U selling very much, and I think this is nintendoes last dying breath

 

[Conza]

Wow the worst developer, on the worst console, using the worst genre - this should be excellent!