Ubisoft says ZombiU 'unprofitable, no plans for sequel'
The game wasn't even close to making a return on the French publisher's investment, CEO Yves Guillemot reportedly told GamesIndustry International.
Guillemot is also said to have cited ZombiU's poor performance as the key factor behind switching Rayman Legends from a Wii U exclusive to a multiplatform game.
"We must find a way to ensure the creativity of those games could have a big enough audience," he said. "We hope it will take off. At the moment, we've said 'let's do through Christmas and see where we are from there.'"
Meanwhile, EA chief operating officer Peter Moore has expanded on the reasons for the publisher's recent lack of Wii U support.
He told GamesIndustry: "We were there with four games for them [at launch]. It's been a disappointment when you look at sell-through and, as a company, we have to be very judicious where we deploy our resources.
"The lack of online engagement that we see on Wii U [is troubling]," he added. "It's so integral to what we do. They're so small it's hardly worth running the servers. It seems like a box that's out of sync with the future of EA - which is one that gives a real social feel to our games. The Wii U feels like an offline experience right now."
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TaigaAisakaPosted:
EstablishNinjaWizardTFM WiiU just needs to give up.
They're trying their best. The original Wii was great, but since then, they have been failing.
They've been failing since the Gamecube.
The Nintendo Wii did pretty good in sales, so has the 3DS. Way better than the Wii U. I would say after the 3DS is when they started to slowly fall.
RuinsPosted:
KatsumiRATF-Wub I wonder how good ZombiU did.
i wonder as well
View this page
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/70793/zombiu/
Global Total as of 29th Jun 2013 (units): 0.47m (470,000)
thats not that bad?
EstablishPosted:
NinjaWizardTFM WiiU just needs to give up.
They're trying their best. The original Wii was great, but since then, they have been failing.
They've been failing since the Gamecube.
KatsumiPosted:
RATF-Wub I wonder how good ZombiU did.
i wonder as well
View this page
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/70793/zombiu/
Global Total as of 29th Jun 2013 (units): 0.47m (470,000)
TaigaAisakaPosted:
Monster-MunchRATF-Wub I wonder how good ZombiU did.
i wonder as well
Same as me bro.
I searched it up and it did pretty good for the most part.
http://i.imgur.com/263GKXk.png
This is something else regarding about it not having a sequel.
"In May 2013, the game's developer reported that work is underway on a prototype for a sequel.However, in July 2013, Ubisoft head Yves Guillemot stated that ZombiU was not profitable, and as such there were no plans for a sequel."
TaigaAisakaPosted:
NinjaWizardTFM WiiU just needs to give up.
They're trying their best. The original Wii was great, but since then, they have been failing.
The Wii U was basically thrown onto the shelves and hoped for the best. They noticed how good the Wii did so they were assuming the Wii U would do the same if not better. Unfortunately that is not the outcome and Nintendo realizes that.
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