Sorry, Wii U Owners, no Watch Dogs DLC For You

[masticina]

*slow clap*
Yup this is quite the expected news by now. IF the WiiU gets a game.. it certainly isn't the version they want you to play. UNLESS it is of course made by Nintendo Self. Such a joy...

Oh well what to do about it right.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Rayman Legends. Though to be fair it was supposed to be exclusive to the WiiU.

And sold most on the WiiU, this is even with some users not buying it because of the move to multiplatform.

It actually sold most on the PS3. As did Rayman Origins.


OPeople have many reasons to hate on Ubisoft. UPlay, Franchise Milkage, etc. But when a game doesn't sell well, they have some significant points when it comes to Nintendo's practices.

The low sales of Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101 (two games talked up on these forums before their release at the game that would boost WiiU sales way up) pretty much side with Ubisoft's argument. The console is very hard to sell 3rd party games on even good levels on. It's mostly due to it's name being associated with Nintendo ditching core gaming audiences in the last generation.

Nintendo has had bad relationships with 3rd party publishers for a very long time. I always remind people of the Capcom 5 on the Gamecube. 3rd party games have sold poorly on Nintendo consoles since the Gamecube.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

even titles that Nintendo invested in ain't doing so flash, ergo Bayonetta 2.

In Japan where there's been poor marketing of it, where Operation Platinum isn't exactly the strongest point,where even the PS4/XB1 isn't selling so well either and home consoles are in 2nd place to the handheld/mobile phone. The game isn't even out anywhere else yet and it's been a niche series for years with the total being only 1.3 million across two platforms, that's just two platforms instead of one which was poor to begin with.

I say give it time before we see results after say a year before we say it sold poorly overall.

OT: Why does the ES not mention the tweet being forcibly pulled by Ubisoft?, it's not like Ubisoft cared for the Wii U to begin with, this is just another one of their self fulfilling prophecies they'd set up from the start, give less attention to the platform and give them delayed and shoddy ports and see how people react to poor treatment.

It's exactly like the PC boat when it comes to delays and bad ports but worse since most of these 3rd parties are bailing when they've shown they can't be arsed and don't put enough effort into making the game great for the platform.

I can't wait for the eventual 24 hr update on this article, I've seen other sites with this news and update before the ES even got a whiff of this, it seems ES is slower than usual when it comes to getting stories, at least from what I've seen.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

"This kind of thing really isn't helping the "Nintendo sucks with third-party games," image that people have of the company..."

Though it would more accurate to say "3rd parties suck with Nintendo" because the last time I checked Nintendo wasn't the one making these boneheaded decisions. It's not like Nintendo marched into Ubi's office and forced them to be this stupid.

"It also doesn't really help the "games industry really isn't that great at maximising it's profits" image that the business world have of it."

Indeed; when you get down to it, excluding a platform is just plain stupid. It's not encouraging diversity or increasing the userbase of gaming, if anything it's encouraging the industry to be as small and as niche as possible, relying on a shrinking demographic that, while spend more per capita, can't match the amount of revenue a larger audience could bring. And that's before how they keep making games that are M-rated, shunning gamers younger than 20, and then wonder why their market share is shrinking. Oh, and let's not forget how 3rd party after 3rd party shuns handheld gaming despite it making money hand over fist when compared to consoles, mostly due to handheld games not having outrageous and masturbatory budgets. The business side of gaming is a stellar example of incompetence.

 

[Something Amyss]

This kind of thing really isn't helping the "Nintendo sucks with third-party games," image that people have of the company...

It also doesn't really help the "games industry really isn't that great at maximising it's profits" image that the business world have of it.

Both have a pretty similar root issue....

 

[Verlander]

This kind of thing really isn't helping the "Nintendo sucks with third-party games," image that people have of the company...

It also doesn't really help the "games industry really isn't that great at maximising it's profits" image that the business world have of it.

Both have a pretty similar root issue....

You're not wrong

 

[Brian Tams]

"I still don't understand why nobody on the wii u will buy our games."

--Ubisoft Exec after Watch_Dogs Wii U Launch

EDIT-At least they didn't wait until after they released the game and sold Season Passes to yank DLC support (glares at Arkham Origins)

 

[Burgers2013]

Oh my...I guess I'm going to have to miss out. And by miss out I mean wait until Watch Dogs is heavily discounted on Steam to consider playing it.

It just doesn't seem like a great game for the WiiU. I don't play these types of games on the Wii/WiiU because I think the best Wii/WiiU games are the ones designed for that system specifically, not (sometimes haphazardly) ported over. Then again, I've always been fortunate enough to have either another console or a decent PC, so there's that.

^And this is probably why they aren't bothering to port the DLC. Now I feel bad.

 

[MetalDooley]

Jeez Ubisoft it's almost as if you want me to buy your games used...

Can't say I'm surprised really.None of the 3 big western publshers are supporting Wii U anymore apart from casual/kiddy titles.And as Brian Tams mentioned at least they announced it in advance and didn't do what Warner Bros did by selling season passes and then dropping DLC support

 

[Evonisia]

You'd think Ubisoft would at least go out with a blast for it's final "mature" (lol) title for the Wii U, but no. They just try to pretend that it didn't exist and give a gimped version for it.

And this is so mediocre in terms of crap. It's not as bad as the Arkham Origins bullshit, but it's also worse than Nintendo basically rejecting CoD DLC because the Black Ops Wii port caused issues with the console.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Eh, if you have a Wii U (and I bought one when Xenoblade X was confirmed) then you have to realize it is a horrible cross platform console. You're in it for the exclusives. Like MK8, Xenoblade, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, Super Mario 3D World, etc. And I'm okay with that - I knew when I bought it that Ubisoft was a lost cause already.

I'm sure there are still some really dedicated Wii U people who are REALLY ANGRY about this, because the hardcore Wii U guys are scary, but I think anyone sane just expects it at this point, and doesn't care. Watchdogs and Origins ended up being mediocre and not worth crying about, but if you care about the cross platform stuff (say Assassin's Creed Unity) you've got another machine. That's the PC for me.

This is pretty much what I was going to say. You buy nintendo consoles for Nintendo exclusives not cross platform stuff. People who frequently buy games like watch dogs should buy a pc, playstation etc.

I'd like a wiiu though.