EA and Ubisoft explain scaled back Wii U support

Explaining his company’s lack of upcoming Wii U games in an interview with , EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said: "Look, the only thing they can do to fix it is to sell more boxes… The Wii U, we shipped four games. We shipped Madden, FIFA, Need for Speed and Mass Effect. In fact, the last 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Need for Speed shipped 60 days ago had a pretty good Metacritic. It was a good game. It wasn't a schlocky💝 port, we actually put extra effort into getting everything to work. And it's just not selling bec🌳ause there's no boxes."

Gibeau added: “Nintendo is a good partner and never count 'em out and all that. Never count them out, but right now we're focused on PS4 and Xbox One and from our perspective we'll look at the Wii U, we'll continue to observe it. If it becomes a viable platform from an audience sta♐ndpoint,🍸 we'll jump back in."

Meanwhile, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told that his company won't release more Wii U exclusives until Nintendo sells more consoles. The French publisher supported the system at launch with Wii U exclusive ZombiU and had intended to release 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rayman Legends as a Wii U exclusive, but the game has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:since gone multiplatform. "We need🐽 more sold," Guillemot said of Wii U. "They are coming with five of their biggest brand⛦s ever. And the Yen went down. So maybe they will take steps that will increase the number of consoles sold."

Nintendo has also acknowledged that it must do more to convince third party publishers to bring their games to Wii U. Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America's head of corporate communications, told the company hopes a string of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming releases will boost 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:flagging hardware sales and in turn help drum up more support for the platform. "Third parties want the same thing that we do, which is the install base to grow so they have a larger aඣudience to sell their games to," Scibetta said.

"We feel that's our job to help drive that install base, and we haven't had the software so far in 2013 that's going to do that. But we're confident between now and the holiday and again in 2014, we do h🌳ave the software that's going to grow that install base. And when that happens, we think that Wii U will be a far more attractive platform for third parties to want to publish on. The same thing happened on Nintendo 3DS that we think will happen on Wii U, which started off slow, but when the software came around, the hardware sales came. We're looking for the same dynamic for Wii U."

Wii U has lacked the level of third party software support Nintendo and early adopters would have liked in the platform’s first six months of availability, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a number of exciting games planned for release on the𓄧 coꦓnsole in the next 12 months.