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Ubisoft Will Leverage Their Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Work For Wii Successor

By Ishaan . May 12, 2011 . 2:48pm

Ubisoft Will Leverage Their Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Work For Wii Successor

With Nintendo’s Wii successor — commonly referred to as “Project Café” — on the horizon for a 2012 release, developers are thinking about how to approach the platform, Ubisoft included.

 

According to Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft will be able to use their work on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for the Wii successor. “First, the platform Nintendo is coming with is really a fantastic platform. We think it will be extremely successful,” Guillemot said to an investor, during a recent earnings call.

 

“And what we see is that we will be able to leverage a lot of the work we do for Xbox 360 and PS3 while we create games for the platform,” Guillemot continued, “so we will not have to redo completely the games that we create. We’ll be able to use all the capacity the console is giving but also use all the work that we do for the other platforms.”

 

Nintendo plan to release more information on the Wii successor at their E3 press conference in June, along with playable titles for the system.


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  • shion16

    500 ports coming to Wii 2

    • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

      Well at least Nintendo only fans will get to experience the Assassin’s Creed Experience, finally.

      • shion16

        theres AC games in the DS o.o

        • http://profiles.google.com/chrissomerry Christian Meredith

           Having played Altaïr’s Chronicles or whatever it is on the DS/iPhone, and AC1 on PC, I think it’s safe to say that there’s a big difference between them that means that people who’ve only played the DS versions would be missing out….

          • shion16

            yeah but serioslynobody wanna play AC1 6 years later 

    • http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2704923 Buntar0

      Shhhhhhhh! Not ports, they will give use “leveraged” titles.

      You know, just like EA made Dead Space Extraction a “guided first person experience”, not an ordinary on-rails shooter.

  • malek86

    I didn’t expect any different from them.

    But then, isn’t this exactly what Nintendo wants? They put out a console that is about as powerful as the current ones, so that third parties will finally bring their multiplatform games to them too.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuronoa Kuronoa

    I see Ubi giving Nintendo multiplatform and ports people may actually play for Cafe, then I see the items for sale on this page and reminded why I don’t care for them anymore.

  • godmars

    Feels like the industry is nearing burnout. Can’t really afford to be creative because of production costs, and anything not an exclusive is being recycled to other platforms.

    • Ryos

      Unfortunately, better technology equates to higher development costs, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to stick with just one platform anymore.

      • godmars

        Still, in the same token, we’re not seeing much technical improvement for the added development costs. Some games look better while other look like they’re the PS1 era.

      • PrinceHeir

         who is this fine lady in your avatar? :P

    • http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuronoa Kuronoa

      Maybe we will see less “Hollywood/blockbuster” titles for retail to help lower damage done. However that line of thought I suppose they will just make download titles instead. =/

      That said I’m fine with ports everywhere (well I mean multi-platform) if there’s care put into it. They just need to think outside the box with budgets and marketing so they don’t go overboard.

    • malek86

      If the industry really goes burnout, that should be an interesting situation.

      But I’m afraid it won’t happen. In the end, what I think will happen is that the bigger companies will just get even bigger, while smaller companies will disappear, and finally we’ll be in a sort of oligopoly, like so many other mature markets. Not nearly as interesting as the burnout though.

    • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

      I think its good news for fans of Ubisofts most profitable titles, it isnt like they do not have exclusives (Kinect titles)…

  • http://thrust-the-sky.deviantart.com/ WildArms

    As long as they dont make exclusive stuff, dont drawn into ports, and keep their quality they can do whatever they want

  • CleruTesh

    Wow, so after I buy a $400 Cafe, I’ll be able to buy a bunch of old Xbox 360/PS3 games for $60 each? Gee, thanks!

    • http://twitter.com/mangeezer jerry

      What did you expect? 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1246707513 Shuga Suenaga

      you dont have to buy them if you already have them, that will be dumb…
      i would buy them since i dont have a PS3/Xbox360, take for a fact that a lot of the wii followers are not aware of lots of games for ps3 and xbox so thats a success since they will buy the “project cafe” as nintendo followers

      • CleruTesh

        I just get tired of seeing companies re-release their old games at full price. PS3 got that a lot from Xbox games. Hopefully they can at least sell old games on Cafe for a discount. But honestly, I sure hope third parties do more than that. If half of Cafe’s launch lineup are games that were originally released a year or more prior, then I personally will find it very unappealing.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/S42ONH6C3L63N2MEAFXB6E26XE wahyudil

        @facebook-1246707513:disqus : Same with me

      • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

        A lot of Wii followers are not aware of lots of games for PS3 and Xbox? Are they impervious and blind to advertising for many AAA titles?  I would find it baffling that they were honestly sitting on $400 worth of money for this entire generation punishing themself by not even attempting to get the two now lower cost than ever X360 and PS3…

  • neo_firenze

    It’s pretty apparent that Ubisoft and similar companies will be doing multi-platform releases on PS3/360 and this new Nintendo system. Maybe the Nintendo versions will even have some extra bells and whistles.

    The real question is whether they will stick with Nintendo after the PS4/next Xbox arrive, or whether those systems will leapfrog Nintendo’s console with enough power that any Nintendo ports of their games will be inferior or eventually stop coming altogether.

    • Suicunesol

      To be honest I don’t know how much more powerful a console system can get. Console wars can’t go on forever. Developers can’t keep up with costs, time. We can’t assume graphics are going to improve forever. They’re already approaching a peak.

      • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

         Load speeds can still be increased, thus would allow for more data to be allowed, thus allowing for games to approach the quality as seen in intense action heavy films, sound can always be improved; power can increase!.

        • http://profiles.google.com/chrissomerry Christian Meredith

           That said, since we’re close to photorealism (to which the 16 bit era came nothing close), there’s nothing really past that. Although, 3D and other emerging home entertainment technologies will probably need increasingly more powerful machines, but for the average family right now, it’s close to “well, this is as good as it’s gonna get”

          • AdrianHeng

            We’re APPROACHING photorealism, yes, but we’re still nowhere near it. Look at any game today that boasts being “realistic” and you’ll notice it has exactly two colours – brown and more brown. And BLOOOOMMMMM.

            Once technology becomes so advanced that video games are literally indistinguishable from reality … THEN we can expect the industry to throw in the towel. But even then, there’d still likely be room for improvement in some way or another.

      • neo_firenze

         People have been saying the same things about technology for ages.  I heard the same stuff during the 16-bit era and the Playstation era.  People’s ideas about computers in the 2nd half of the 20th century show the same flawed logic.  I imagine cavemen were saying the same thing about their primitive weapons way back then too. 

        You wouldn’t have even been able to imagine today’s internet experience
        twenty years ago.  Or the sophistication of today’s smartphones even…
        what, five years ago?

        Consoles will get better, there’s plenty of room for improvement.  Rendering power, multiple core chips, more RAM, more storage capacity, faster storage media, better internet connectivity… there’s a lot of improvement to be made.  Devs will get better tools and middleware to allow them to use the added power.

        What you worry about if you’re Nintendo is another Dreamcast – getting a head start, but then getting eclipsed in fairly short order by the competition of the PS2 (and then shortly thereafter, the Xbox and Gamecube).  I assume Nintendo has some plan, especially with the apparently unique controller, but it’s a legitimate concern.

  • darkfox1

    Sigh…. The cycle is gonna start again where Nintendo releases a new console then later down the line Microsoft/Sony gonna find a way to “improve” or do something “better” than the wii. I think Nintendo releases new consoles wayyyy to early. Let Sony or Microsoft do it first so then Nintenod can benefit off it for once.

    • http://twitter.com/mangeezer jerry

      They tried that for past 3 generations 

    • http://profiles.google.com/chrissomerry Christian Meredith

       Maybe they’re noting releasing them early. Maybe they’re releasing them late ;)

  • Dimentionalist

    Babyz Cafe? Sure! I’ll take… zero.

  • Mukkinese

    Well, let’s face facts, if multi-platform games are released on all three machines, then the only real areas of competition are other services/features and exclusive titles. Time and again Nintendo’s exclusive titles top sales charts everywhere. Assuming Cafe can deliver at least what the Xbox does, then this is a smart move by Ninty.

  • PrinceHeir

    AC Revelations first ubisoft project cafe game? :P

  • Lion’s Paw

    So what Ubi are saying is the Wii successor will come with all overheads of developing 360/PS3 games? I imagine established 360/PS3 developers large and small will be comfortable with that.

    But for small developers without lots of money and without experience on 360/PS3, I guess they might start moving to 3DS/NGP to keep costs/risk down. That won’t be so bad in a way since both of those platforms need new games to improve their popularity.

    • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

      What do you mean? What small developers didnt make PS3/360 games and remained Wii exclusive because of costs?  They can always target the digital market, enter into publishing deals with mid-size publishers, or go handheld. The handhelds will apparently cost more than the development to make a Wii game, while NGP offers the benefit of sharing development with PS3 essentially so costs can be saved.

  • lostinblue

     Translation: For the time being… We will treat the Wii sucessor like we treated the Wii!

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