The Ubisoft senior vice president believes the dance genre will be "one of the bright spots of growth" later this year, thanks to sales of the company's Just Dance 2 and Michael Jackson the Experience -- and that the instrument-based music game popularity slump is unlikely to affect this genre.
In comments made to Gamasutra, the marketing exec suggested that Michael Jackson the Experience -- early copies of which will contain a replica of Michael Jackson's famous sequined glove -- will help push the company to unassailable leadership in the dance genre.
MyGaming: "We all secretly love a number of games we’d never tell anyone else about, games that make us seem like simpletons, suckers or sellouts.
They’re games that are way below our age group, games we know are critical failures, games that are embarrassing to play in a group or that the community despise in general.
Nevertheless, we play them, and we enjoy them too – when no one is looking of course.
These are the games most often spoken about in hushed tones by so many of us"
I'm not so much ashamed for having played SingStar as I am sorry for the people that were listening to it.
And Lego games are fun. No need to be ashamed for playing them imo.
SingStar was one of our party games. We usually wound up competing boys against girls. Us boys always won.
Karaoke American Idol is much better than singstar... Great drunken party game :-) and I enjoyed lollipop chainsaw as well lol!
Definitely no shame in Lego games.
As for just dance and other similar gams, party games are super fun... As long as you aren't playing alone :P
Plants vs Zombies GW and Splatoon - I am 44, I don't tell anyone that I play these. Both are great games.
The only one I felt ashamed of owning, off the top of my head, was TMNT: Smash Up.
I got rid of it not long afterwards, though, so I'm not sure that counts...
I guess maybe Child of Light?
I love the story and combat, but Ubisoft hasn't really done much in the last 3 years to warrant my patronage outside of that game, so I guess I feel a little guilty about giving them money for it when they've burned me so many times before...
Jack and Michael go over five facts in Pirate Punishment
It can’t be denied anymore: Just Dance is one of those successes in the previous generation that needs to be acknowledged.
