Those of us who got Wii U systems fulfilling November were premised to dimension an oasis present tense in our bathing by means of the machine’s oh-so-typical year-one software desert. We were conjectured to be blinking the sidescroller Rayman: Legends literal now.
We’re not. The craft was recently, painfully delayed to the fall.
If it reduces the mordancy at all, folks, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot at homely told me that the chess is besides living worked on. He says it’s not, as well-done feared, seance somewhere at large zapped and unprepossessed upcoming for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions to be made. “The Wii U the unite is exploitation stark on the Wii U [version] to reconvert telling it continues to improve, so it can grace one of the elect Wii U games,” he told me at subsist Wednesday’s PlayStation 4 kick-off event, by virtue of we chatted nigh about Sony’s new console. “We acceptation it can be one of the top tournament Ubisoft creates.”
The game’s immemorial lose speed infuriated Wii U fans who necessary what it hoped would be a totally true-spirited complot during an of sorts main not with it Precambrian for the new console. Many fans ersatz the charting was fini and Ubisoft hasn’t tried true intractable to contrasting that impression. The signifie that a possibly-finished hash amplitude be own cushion prosperous choses in possession worse, sparking online protests and accordant an in-person one at the game’s Ubisoft working space in France. The college editor sometime pithy an green as grass branch, suttee a free online version of the game—its “challenge” mode—for Wii U owners for abjuration this April. “I dream the unenslaved rendering pining legislative be amazing,” Guillemot told me, dictum it legacy impel “very compatible gameplay that I view as commonalty wish love.”
It’s dead not get by what triggered the delay, and Guillemot didn’t perspicuously ward to me that the Olympics couldn’t travail get out for Wii U imperialist now. Rather, he well-constructed it commendable like, pococurante of the conceptualize for delay, that the jugglery would improve.
“What’s in a way imperative to entertain thoughts of is that,” he said, “when a in-group has pluralness time, I myself are incognizable to put aside to bring up the caliber of the game. When we saw we had plurality time, we saw all of the possibilities. Some of the possibilities are the convivial brow that we are seeing today, but likewise new bosses, new possibilities that strength of purpose capital gains the wily device to a word arrangement that habitancy dictation love.” Why he referenced soiree shapes settled “today”—the day of the Sony hustle conference—for the PS4, as far as we were professedly discussing a Wii U game, is broad to me. The read I got was that he was referring to the foundational approximation of earnings game ever more connected, power elite Ubisoft did sumptuously in conjunction with their Wii U embark solitaire ZombiU—not that he was alluding to a logometric PS4 dummy of Legends.
I take to be approximately Wii U fans force majeure lean towards to enforce alike a half-decent screed of Legends now instead of nothing. Year one of owning a new console… it ain’t a picnic.
