“Nintendo Customers Don’t Buy Assassin’s Creed” Says Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot

Oee oee

Well just dance barely sold more than that, so I guess we don’t buy that either, I’m curious what total sales are for their games after digital sales, and by the way I bought ac, zombi u, splinter cell, and a couple others NEW just to support then when I could have gotten used, I guess just dance is just their easiest game to port.

He knows exactly why people who own a Nintendo’s plateform don’t buy AC. Let’s start by saying that no assassin’s creed (canon) before AC3 were on Nintendo. Then people has to pick up the franchise from AC3. Then when AC3 come out it was just a 6 months (top) port of the Xbox360 which comes with all the bugs. Then AC4 was not event advertised properly in fact until recently I did not know it was on Wii U.

Rayman and watch dog story did not go down very well and they are well aware of that fact. Just go to Ubisoft forum to understand.

Personally I would like to have a chat with him 30 mins Max that’s all I need to put my point across. I also notice the press don’t ask the right questions (the annoying ones).

If a magazine can ask him: Do you think Nintendo feel frustrated and betray by you business decision? Do you think the fact you delay Rayman and Watch Dogs has an impact on your sales for this plateform? Why did not port AC1,AC2,AC2 Brotherhood and revelation on Wii U?

you cant really expect a port that came out age’s after its orginal release to sell well. aspecily seeing as its from a shitty compeny like ubisoft -_-

let’s just not talk crap, ok?
AC3 came out a month later than on the other consoles (same release date as the PC version) in europe.
that said though, a couple of months later the AC Collection came out with AC1,2,Brotherhood and Revelations for PS360.
he could’ve made this speech if after releasing THAT on wii u, the sales would’ve stayed low.
they didn’t so they have really no right to complain, like EA with Mass Effect 3 coming out as the Complete Trilogy hit the other consoles..
i’ve bought AC3 & 4 to support Nintendo but they screwed me over with buggy games, 0 optimization resulting in long loading times and releasing dlcs months after the other consoles or not releasing them at all (i.e.: freedom cry) and no season pass obviously.
so for this series is back to pc for me.

Can someone please explain to me the following (a bit off topic):
Fifa 15 announced for Wii but not for Wii U. How is that even possible?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_15)

Well, there you go people. That explains why we aren’t getting anymore. Sure you can keep trying to twist the facts around, but the proof is right there. Lol and don’t say AC4 was gimped just because it didn’t have DLC. AC3 did, but did it matter? Nope.

Ubisoft games are hardly mature….

These kinda sound like asses, like this is very unprofessional thing to say. Nintendo fans don’t hate M rated games, if that was the case ZombiU wouldn’t have sold ( it actually did good, especially after the review, though its not a terrible game). Ubisoft u need to start taking some of blame ur marketing for the wii has just been as crappy, hell nintendo advertised Rayman for u in dec. Hell delaying rayman, to compete with GTA was a worst idea freakin ever. U never gave wii u owners full content in your games, u always left out something wether it was DLC, or feature in a game(other then rayman). Delaying watch dogs will most likely have the same fate, but then again U NEVER TALKED ABOUT THE WII U VERSION. Look I like ubisofts games, but they can be compete asses at times, I understand something should have sold more if the best effort was put in, and support a platform, but u guys never talked about the wii u versions of your games to my knowledge.

call of duty black ops 2 and ghost is m rated.

I bought AC3, never beat it as my console was stolen. Didn’t get 4 as I don’t like games that involve a lot of boating (includes windwaker).

They just need their blame card. These AC games come out the same time as major Nintendo titles (3 the same as launch titles NSMBU, 4 super Mario 3d world, etc). They pushed Rayman back from a drought period to the pick up period, wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, windwaker hd, etc.

Now watch dogs will be up against super smash bros, hyrule warriors, bayonetta 2, and others. Since all of these games are hyped and advertised (including games that were up against AC3-4), they push these crappy ports aside.

WELL GEE. Maybe when your Wii U releases of the game are months late, with all of the DLC and extra content totally unavailable on the system, it won’t sell well. Buncha marketing geniuses, those Ubisoft guys.

I bought assassins creed 3 last week in my WiiU and I’m loving it :) It’s the first time I’m playing this franchise as well, it’s sad the new ones won’t come to WiiU.

My two copies of AC differ with this guy. I would have also purchased Freedom cry on Wii U if it would have been available.

Anyway…

So he’s focusing on the sales from the end of 2013 to early 2014……….what games were there to count? Just dance…… The rest of the games were already low priced since they been out for a while.

I don’t buy AC games because they are annualized and I can’t keep up with games that are so derivative and released so often.

Now I really won’t buy AC games because I have gotten rid of my 360.

Frankly, the lack of 3rd party support on Wii U has not bothered me. I have always felt like I’ve had something to play and occupy my time.

OH yeah, listen to the spin from all the Nintendo babies saying AC3 came out months after the original, the truth is it was a Wii U launch title that (as someone posted above game came out october 30th on other systems and it was a Wii U launch game november 18, hardly “months” like these delusional babies are claiming with their spin). But you can’t expect anything else with these blinded fanboys who only see things their way and are blinded to the facts.

Anyways, I bought AC3 on the Wii U at launch and I liked the game but when I tried to play it online, online was pretty much dead on the Wii U, you couldn’t find any games (and there numerous threads around the internet from back then of players who said the same).

I moved on to the ps4 and couldn’t be happier, I got AC4 for the ps4 not for the Wii U and online is loaded with players. Been so busy playing my ps4 the last time I posted on this site was months ago. Just finished The Last of Us, and really enjoyed it, I got my platinum and finished the game with 100% completion, as I am a completionist, and competitive, who likes to finish my games (unlike all the casuals who barely can finish a game lol). (I finished AC3 on the Wii U with 100% completion too, Zombi U on the Wii U I finished in survival mode too).

So many games that I have to look forward to on the ps4, just a couple of weeks from now Metro Redux is coming out, running at a steady 60fps, 1080p (as the digital foundry guys already confirmed in an article). Looking forward to playing AC Unity too, I played the Destiny beta and loved it so next month I will be busy playing that.

And from Nintendo, nothing that I can look forward to. Gave up on Nintendo, they only make games that don’t appeal to me. I been gaming on Nintendo consoles since back in the N64, Gamecube era, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Excitebike64, the Star Wars games from Factor 5, Eternal Darkness, Wave Race, 1080°, the Metroid games from Retro, those were the types of games that I liked back then (and those were first party/2nd party, exclusive games from Nintendo), I never been interested in the Mario and whatnot games. But Nintendo changed years ago, when they sold Rare, and the rest of their 2nd party western studios. The only one they kept is Retro, but no surprise they put them to work on more of the same baby games that they do (like DKTF). And I’m only mildly interested in Bayonetta 2, that X game is still far far away from release. Nintendo was a much more diversified company back then that made all sorts of games for different types of gamers. Not everyone loves Mario (I don’t), but now they have become the one dimensional company that makes only one type of game. I only owned Nintendo consoles since the N64 days, but Nintendo is out of touch with gamers like me and I have moved on. It is the way I feel and obviously the Nintendo fanboys can’t understand that other people can have different tastes in games than them.

I’d love to buy Assassin’s Creed for Nintendo systems if we got the full game at the same time as others, rather than a crap port with missing features.

I’m a Nintendo customer and I buy Assassin’s Creed games; just not for Nintendo consoles.

As an AC fan, I can pretty much call BS on this statement. It doesn’t matter what company a console is built by, what matters is which one gives you the better deal on a multiplat game. The U versions of AC didn’t deliver a good deal because:

A) marketing (where was it for these versions?)
B) they’re 360 ports (what driving force do I have to buy it when I can buy it on a previous gen console I already own for the same graphics/fps , or the ps4/xbone versions with even better graphic/fps?)
C) they can’t expect amazing sales when the console was in a rut (you guys should’ve known that it wouldn’t sell as good as the other versions)
D) no appeal to these version. There’s less content in the U version of AC IV, and III was released after the ps3/360 versions (so anyone interested in it already had those versions)

In the end, ubisoft shouldn’t have expected much in terms of sales when Wii U had the weakest versions of the 2 AC games released. Just like your pc ports, you made something worse than what it could’ve been with the decisions made. Well ubisoft, plan better next time you want to release an AC game for a Nintendo console (simultaneous release, actually design the game around the console rather than just porting the 360 version and slapping a wii u logo on it, & market it with the other versions)

Ubisoft: “lets put no effort into advertising/spreading the word about the wii u versions, fuck them over with delays/gimped/ported releases, and then give up entirely on this audience”.

Besides, I wouldn’t even buy the U versions because (like many other gamers) I’m a multi-console owner who gets the best version of a game (wii u versions are the weakest with less content and 360 graphics)

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