I just hope lego city don't try something like this

they seriously should just tell ms to go f themselves. this is just extortion.

the 20 or so sales they would have got on xbox would have easily been made up on wii by releasing now when they have no games and everyone was dying to play it. now public backlash is going to make it bomb hard on all platforms.

instead of a good wii launch and then a decent ps360 launch 6 months later there are going to be just crickets chirping in September

in fact im going out to get origins today secondhand. suck it ubi

I'll buy it pre-owned or new later on. No longer a day 1 purchase for me as by the time Rayman Legends launches there will be other games I'd rather have. They really screwed up the opportunity to counter the WiiU market with the games drought that's going on for WiiU right now.

Most likely to do with the marketing budget. If they release now and again later on they will have to spend twice on marketing. As well as lose out because no one would buy a full price Rayman Legends for PS3/360 when the Wii u version would prob be costing $15-$20 by that time.

Releasing them all at the same time means they can sell them all at the same price point, as well as save on marketing.

Every former Wii-U exclusive has now gone multiplatform, & more & more of Wii-U's announced titles are being pushed back.

I think it is blatently obvious why, & that is simply because Wii-U is not selling well enough to warrant developers & publishers to support it....especially with exclusives. 3rd party studios are waiting for the install base to rise, but gamers are waiting for some truly games. And lets face it, Wii-U launched with a bunch of games that were months & months old, like Batman:AC, Darksiders, Mass Effect 3, etc, etc...then they have some that launched pretty much alongside there PS3/360 counterparts, & they showed absolutely no advantages over these 7 & 8 yr old machines, so nobody was going out to purchase a brand spanking new machine that seems only capable of replicating what the machines we already paid for years ago, can do, with the only addition being that the Wii-U versions ALL have this overused, overhyped, pretty useless map & item select feature on the controller.
The supposed "UNLIMITED" scope that Nintendo's latest gimmick with a box was supposed to bring to games, has been found out to be as fraudulent & fictionalized as hardcore gamers knew it would be.

Seriously, Nintendo saw opportunity (as they are the biggest, greediest, opportunists in the business) that was afforded to them by the phone & tablet gaming business model, so they built a machine around that whole casual tablet/phone money spinner.
The problem is, that the furthest portable gaming you can do, away from your main console, is the crapper, & so the whole tablet controller thing proves pretty useless......& factor on top of that, that many developers are wasting the screen with maps & crap, meaning that many Wii-U games force you to use your television screen to play & you are unable to play using the controllers inbuilt screen.

I mean, then we move onto Mario, the supposed "BEST" of in Nintendo's stable & on Wii-U.....the problem is, that instead of giving us the successor to Mario64, we get a rehash, 2friggin'D version of the game, that has been bettered by Rayman on 360 & PS3 (whom are also just about to receive the once Wii-U exclusive next Rayman installment).

I mean, Zombi-U would be my pick of the bunch & while a very good game & multiplayer being the best & riskiest attempt at something innovative & great with the controller, it still is not a truly outstanding, or great game (in fact, it is probably not quite as good as Dead Island or the upcoming Riptide).

So really, what Nintendo probably thought would be an easy sell, just like Wii-U, the whole wiggle & jiggle generation has been & gone & while Nintendo were highly successful off a gimmick, this attempted cash in on the smartphone/tablet business, may prove to be a bigger risk of being a failure, than Nintendo could ever have anticipated. I hope it sells well enough for Nintendo to survive (as I don't wanna see that many worldwide jobs destroyed), but I also hope it sells bad enough compared to PS3/PS4/360 & 720, so it doesn't give Sony, MS & any others that enter the game, the idea that we are morons, & so they can sell us 7yr old technology, with a twist, & therefore console gaming goes backwards, like Nintendo did to the casuals with Wii, & are trying again with Wii-U.
Because, we all know that if Wii & Wii-U, then Wii-U-Me-2 sell like hotcakes, in record time & make Nintendo lots of money, while Sony & MS duke it out for a distant 2nd & 3rd place, while they are selling powerful hardware, as opposed to Nintendo's.........well, then both MS & Sony are going to be forced (financially) to follow suit & sell us less, for more.
So, while Nintendo fanboys (like any fanboys), are gonna deny until blue in face, the truth is, Nintendo's continued success in selling us outdated hardware & tech. for quite a substantial price, will set a dangerous precedence & may make the console hardware technology take a massive hit & give pc player something to truly laugh at....plus, many will defect to pc, as the visual, AI & other power hungry features will provide to much of a gap between console to pc, for console gamers to ignore anymore.
I mean, just think how Wii-U games are going to compare to pc games in 3yrs, let alone now, I mean the gap is going to be night & day....And that is coming from a Wii-U owner.