E3 2012: Ubisoft Not Confirming Rayman Legends as a Wii U Exclusive

by David Sanchez on June 11, 2012 @ 3:48 pm

A major part of Ubisoft’s presence at E3 this year was Rayman Legends, the charmingly beautiful successor to the equally charmingly beautiful Rayman Origins, which is currently available on every single console known to man. Gameplay for Legends was shown off during Ubisoft’s press conference, and the game was on the show floor for gamers to check out. I didn’t actually get the chance to see Legends for myself, but all I heard from people who did was nothing but praise.

During the presser and on the show floor, the only version of the game we saw was for the Wii U. This has led many gamers to believe that the upcoming platformer may be exclusive to Nintendo’s new hardware. Speaking to Joystiq, Legends Senior Game Manager Michael Micholic explained that that’s not necessarily the case.

While Micholic didn’t go too deep into it, he did clarify that Ubisoft is showing off the cool Wii U features for Legends. Given the company’s support for the console, that shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, especially considering the cool functionality that the Wii U version will sport come launch.

I don’t think there should ever be any doubt that Legends will be a multiplatform game. I mean, just look at Origins. If this new game is as awesome as its predecessor, I doubt Ubisoft will want to keep it restricted to a single device.

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hush404 says:

That makes me happy at least as I dig rayman and would love to play Legends, but don't plan on picking up a WiiU for it. I saw another site note that the first reveal trailer has a little "Exclusive WiiU content" note in it, thus leading to speculation that it was never meant to be exclusive to the WiiU, but rather Nintendo wanted them to focus on it to show off the new gamepad.

Trigun says:

makes sense. It would be sort of dumb to release Origins on like 5 platforms and then the sequel only on 1.

Just that the other platforms won't have the things that can only be done on the WiiU

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