The Wii has not had a good 2011, with diminished hardware and software sales. Still, despite the difficulties that third-parties have had with the system, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says that the Wii is a huge part of their business.

“Today, the Wii still is 45 percent of our business,” he said. “Just Dance, all those casual games, are selling extremely well.”

As for the Wii U, he hopes that the system’s new capabilities, including better graphics and the tablet controller, will help propel the company’s business to a new level. “Now to [what audience] will it be addressed We don’t exactly know yet,” said Guillemot. “But the potential of the machine, and the tablet [controller], I think is a good way to improve the potential gameplay.”

Source: Gamasutra