The hate started when the Wii U lost Rayman as an exclusive. Now apparently the system is doomed.

Archangel3371 said:

That would be me. Also looking forward to it.

Just posted it in its own blog. If I had any shame I wouldn't mind you, but fuck it man. I got rid of shame a long time ago.

gamingeek said:

edgecrusher said:The hate started when the Wii U lost Rayman as an exclusive. Now apparently the system is doomed.

I can understand it going multiplatform, but delayed too? Till when? Also I saw a chart comparison with the first 3 months of sales compared with various platforms and u was doing similarly well compared to gc and wii, other systems, even xbox1 and ps2 were much higher. I expect better marketing, more games and a price cut would do wonders. We are so early. I expect high priced next gen consoles to face similar struggles.

The current date is sometime in September.

robio said:

The current date is sometime in September.

aspro said:

Because then Ubi would have to pay for two marketing campaigns.

The marketing explanation is a legit one, but only if the game isn't as good as we've all anticipated. If the game is AAA quality, the word of mouth would be more than enough to carry the PS3 and 360 version. I wrote a very long letter to Ubisoft and reminded them of how Capcom handled the PS2 release of RE4 with a very minimal ad budget.

aspro said:That "protest" was a contrieved PR stunt.




Ubi got scared off from ZombiU sales and as Ninty pointed out they got painted into a corner by MS.




It does suck. I am sure there were plenty of people who got a U for Rayman.



There was another dev: A dev that worked on Rayman Legends took to the internet with an important message. He said that the dev team felt just as hurt as the rest of us. The delay of the game/push to multiplatform was a shock to them as well. They worked very long hours to push for a February launch, doing away with family/friend/personal time. They crunch and crunch, only to find out their hard work has been pushed until September...with more to come for 360/PS3.



The main point this dev wanted to make came to the consumer/game relationship. He didn't want people to crap on the game because of Ubisoft's decision. This is a title that these devs are very proud of and have put a ton of work into. The game itself is going to be fantastic, but now the devs are worried that people will ignore their title all because of this mess. Just imagine putting in years of work on a project, only to have a fiasco come up like this and bite you in the ass? The poor devs had nothing to do with the decision. http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=512249

Xavier Poix said:

I completely understand you but you have to understand one thing. This is not a decision taken by the development team, this comes from really really high up, so please don't pick on the game.

If you're pissed, imagine how we feel. Think on the situation, we've been making overtime with this game practically since May preparing E3, and then almost a demo per month (gamescon, Wii U presentation, shops, eShop, etc...) and at the same time trying to actually finish the game. We had a first delay because it was obvious we couldn't finish on time but we gave it all to be there on February. What face do you think we had when the week we had to close the game we're being told it's not going to be released? I couldn't believe it.

For practical matters, you'll have to wait for some months for the game to be released and will most likely serve for more content to be added and do it better. For us, this means we've spent 6 months barely seeing our wifes, kids, and friends for nothing because, after all, such a haste wasn't needed. Believe it, it was a hell to swallow these news.

Even then I'm firm in what I said back in the day, Rayman Legends is an excellent game and will still be, and the team that's making it doesn't deserve to have your back turned on them just because some men in ties one day took a wrong choice. This industry is really that shitty. - Xavier Poix

OMG it's GG! It's like GG came home to find his house on fire.

gamingeek said:

Ubisoft said:

Ubisoft says multiplatform launch is the only reason behind Rayman Legends' delay


"There are no issues with the game development. All of the information was in the press release, the only reason for the delay is to release on multiple platforms. We usually release all of our platforms simultaneously (aside from PC). We've made special exception sometimes in the past but it's definitely just on a case by case basis and not our standard practice. In this case, Ubisoft recently decided they wanted to release the game on multiple platforms so the decision was made to launch them all at the same time rather than separately. I know it's not an elaborate, 'convincing' answer, but it's the simple truth." - Ubisoft rep

Oh fuck off.

I said it was because of Microsoft's Policy were a game has to release either first on the 360 or release on the same date as the other versions.

Microsoft figures if the game isn't on the 360 same day or before every other system release they don't want it on their system.