Michel Ancel has described Rayman Legends' six month delay as "brutal", and claimed that the protest staged by him and the rest of the team following the initial announcement came as a result of a "misunderstanding".
Ubisoft barely have a leg to stand on lately, so do they need to crack open the vaults and return platforming royalty to glory for some goodwill?
We need Rayman 4, they could make a great platformer game if they wanted. With the open hub levels and the like.
Better than relying on Rabbids and Assassins Creed all the time
Yeah agree id love a Rayman 2 style 3d platform game over another 2d platformer I know people loved legends but it never gelled with me same as Rayman 1 back in the day on PS it just felt like a average platformer with sonic and Mario offering something better on what was then last gen hardware
Yes..but I am sure it won't be the Rayman game fans want. Not from the company that is Ubisoft today.
Ancel is retired from games. His hoodlum/rabbid team are doing their own thing. It would not be the same if Ubisoft did.
Probably far more profitable to make low effort Rabbids games aimed at kids over a next Rayman
Experience points, skill trees to fill up, level gating, endless menial tasks and side quests, constantly scrounging for resources. Always having to upgrade your gear. A.KA. "The Ubisoft effect".
No thanks, don't ruin Rayman's legacy.
A decade on from Rayman Legends' release, it remains a near perfect platformer, so what happened to Rayman? Will we ever see another sequel?
Rayman Legends made its debut 10 years ago today, and has been launched on nearly every gaming platform since.
Too bad Ubisoft only cares about live service games now. Maybe one day they'll make a new Rayman game.
Great games.. would be cool to get qn Origins remaster at least..I know that many of the levels are in Legends, but still
Why couldn't they have just released the Wii U version first then release the 360 and PS3 versions later?
"I think in the end, I wouldn't say I'm happy about the delay but I feel better now because I know that the game is going to touch more people, more people are going to be able to play it"
Ancel, I think you and your team are well rounded and talented group of people, but I respectfully disagree here and here's why.
By choosing to hold off on the release of the Wii U version in particular, Ubisoft has now doomed your game to fierce competition with bigwigs on EVERY major platform. It won't succeed on Wii U because now it's competing with Wonderful 101 and Zelda Wind Waker HD and it won't succeed on 360 and PS3 because now it's competing with Grand Theft Auto V (or rather it the upward climb to success will be far steeper).
It's alright that the game went multiplatform, its prequel did the same. But delaying your finished work was a smack in the face to you, your team and to the Wii U fans who wait for months when the game should have been out in February. That simply wasn't cool.
They might as well cancel the Wii U version, because no one is going to want it now.
Me and many others had ever intention of getting this game back in February. I have no money set aside from it now and I can't find anyone who does. Let Ubisoft know that there is at least one sell that was guaranteed that is now gone and it is 100% do to them, not Nintendo.
All that is going to happen in the end is that is going to sell poorly in the face of all of the games people want more like Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101, and they are going to blame Nintendo for it instead of themselves.
People can blame Ubisoft for the delay of Rayman but at the end of the day- the blame lies squarely on Nintendo. I was not happy about the delay of Rayman either as it was one of the launch games that helped me decide to buy a WiiU for my son last November- but Rayman was delayed, as was Pikmin 3, Lego City and Wonderful 101-among others
The fact is, the launch of the Wii U was a debacle- the sales were horrible once Nintendo decided to disclose the game delays ( If anyone thinks they did not know about the delays at launch then they would have to be very naïve)
Nintendo did not market or otherwise support the launch once the reality was disclosed after The holiday sales season.
When sales tanked Nintendo quit defending and investing in the console choosing to wait till late 2013 (We hope) to pick up support as their bigger games are released). It was obvious that not only were sales poor for the wii U but that Nintendo was not willing to bet on it own console during the launch period and beyond.
I have said the same before: why would Ubisoft or any other company commit financial suicide by releasing a great game like Rayman, as an exclusive, on a console that was selling hardware terribly and software even worse IF they had the option to not do so? I would bet most if not all 3rd parties that released full retail games on the wii u so far (ports or otherwise) would reverse that decision today if they could- I am sure they all lost money and or opportunity cost by taking a chance on the wii u.
Any new console is a risk no matter which company releases it or how much resources are expended in launching it. But if I am a developer/publisher I expect the company who is launching the console to support the darn thing with greater effort and confidence than anyone else in the launch process. MSFT and Sony are not expecting some other company to see to it their consoles get off to a good launch- They are expecting support for their key 3rd parties/console partners and probably paying for a fair amount of that support- but they know they have to keep investing in their console, market their console and show confidence in the console in order to have a successful launch and in order to attract more investment from other parties. MSFT and Sony are not expecting some other company(s) to do it for them.
It is pretty clear that Nintendo decided early on in the launch process that if the console did not sell itself and/or 3rd party games did not sell enough units that they were not going to expend extra resources to make up for their own lack of launch titles- they barely marketed the wiiu, they did not buy any games to fill in for their own lack of games (outside of the 2nd party deals they made a head of launch- that were also delayed), they did not defend the console when 2nd and 3rd parties started to delay their games via sales guarantees or some other financial arrangement- They simply sat back and let the early console purchasers and early 3rd party supporters of the Wii U twist in the wind... waiting on Nintendo to decide when would be a good time to release their own games- and that time was not during the launch period.
So good for Ubisoft ( THE 3rd party who has tried to support the wii U more to date than any other developer/publisher including Nintendo itself)
I hope Rayman sells a ton on the wii u and other consoles as well because if it is 1/2 as good as Rayman Origins then it will be a great games- from what I can tell so far- it will be an even better game than Origins
Woooooow who cares really who gives a rats arse.