News > Ubisoft, Activision Change Tune About Wii
June 1, 2007
Speaking to German magazine Spiegel, Ubisoft apologized for its lackluster efforts early in the Wii's lifecycle. Other than Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids, which were designed specifically for the console, all of Ubisoft's offerings were shoddy ports of previously released games.
"We made mistakes," they told the magazine, and promised to bring higher quality titles to the platform in the future.
Activision has now followed Ubisoft's lead, fessing up to subpar Gamecube support, and promising to deliver on the Wii. CEO Robert Kotick had the following to say in a quarterly conference call:
“[GameCube] really became a non-strategic platform for us, and most of our development effort was focused on straight ports at low costs to leverage our franchises,”
“For a few generations, Nintendo software was better than third-party software. When you look at where we are today…we think we’re actually in the best position and probably even in a better position than the first-party to leverage our development dollars."
“We’re reinvesting against the Nintendo platform in a way that in the last cycle we really did not.”
Ok, Activision. So now that you can make money off of Nintendo's hardware, you're willing to make the plunge, huh? Fine with me, because the vicious cycle of Nintendo (non-) support seems to be coming to an end.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
