Ubisoft Feels Bad About Wii Titles
Any of you regular Rally readers may have noticed that I’ve had a little bit of hate on for Ubisoft lately and it would appear that I have been completely justified in my feelings.
IGN has picked up on a story from German news magazine Spiegel who recently interviewed Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and European head Alain Corre. In the interview the pair admit that they wanted to capitalise on the Wiis popularity and therefore rushed the development of several titles. They also admitted “We made some mistakes”, How big of them.
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Ubisoft Wii games average about a 57% on gamerankings.com . Having played most of Ubi’s Wii offerings myself I tend to agree, yes mistakes were made. Let’s hope that the lesson learned is that people want unique games and not just shoveled ports with wiggle controls.
Ubisoft I accept your apology on the condition that you smarten up and release something worthwhile. I wouldn’t hold my breath however, remember these are the same guys that effectively ruined FarCry as a game and then sold the rights for a film to Uwe Boll. Mistakes indeed.
Source: Spiegel via Kotaku and IGN
May 31st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt. Like they’ve put out some good games. The Prince of Persia series, Ghost Recon Series, Splinter Cell Series. Granted all of these are up for debate, but they do put out some good titles with interesting play dynamics. I personally expect more from them, but many game developers rush games, so who knows, we can’t blame them because so many do it, but that doesn’t excuse them.