Mature games simply don’t sell on Wii U, according to Ubisoft — the company behind Watch Dogs and the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed franchise.
Ubisoft chief executive officer Yves Guillemot told Game Informer that Wii U owners just aren’t buying enough of its mature-rated games to warrant releasing them on Nintendo’s home console. So after the open-world hacking title Watch Dogs, which is still scheduled for release on Wii U at some point this year — way after it appeared on almost every other platform — Ubisoft will scale back its Wii U output significantly.
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