Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that they are planning to port Wii U games to tablets and smartphones. The company will try to recoup costs this way because ports to the PS3 and Xbox 360 are not always possible.
“The new content you can’t port on the other machines but what you can do is to port it to mobile phones and to tablets,” said Guillemot. “So it’s a way to create content that you will be able to port on the generations of tablets or phones that work well – if you don’t monetize it there you can monetize it on many other platforms.”
“You have to do specific content to be monetized by the Wii U itself but it’s also an opening to all the tablets and phones because it’s a same system in in a way, the touch screen,” he added.
The Ubisoft games coming to the Wii U include dancing/fitness titles like Just Dance 4, Your Shape Fitness Evolved and Sports Connection, the family friendly Rayman Legends and Rabbids Land and the core games ZombiU and Assassin’s Creed III. No word as to which titles might receive a tablet/smartphone port.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
